Packs Quotes - Page 8

• Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.

  Patrick Ness

  Pain, Animal, Sky

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• Leo felt trapped. He’d once been stuck in a cave on top of Pikes Peak, surrounded by a pack of werewolves. Another time he’d been stuck in an abandoned factory with a family of evil Cyclopes. But this — standing in an open clearing with a dozen pretty girls — was much worse.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Evil, Caves

  "The Demigod Diaries (The Heroes of Olympus)". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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• Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.

  Michael Crichton

  School, Kids, Airports

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.

  Libba Bray

  Life, Country, Brother

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• You want what you can’t have. I see it in your eyes. The pain that fills your nights is because of my pack of lies. I’ve opened up the door for you to walk away. There’s a better path for you even though I want you to stay. I’ve broken the rules, I’ve veered from the path but when I met you I knew to save you was worth the wrath. Let me leave now before it’s too late. Let me leave now before you know what I am and your love becomes hate.

  Abbi Glines

  Pain, Hate, Lying

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• I didn’t realize I was frozen in place until a classmate shouldered into me, knocking my heavy backpack from my shoulder. “’Scuse me,” he grumbled, his tone more Get out of the way than Sorry I ran into you. As I bent to retrieve my backpack, praying Kennedy and his fangirl hadn’t seen me, a hand grasped the strap and swung the pack up from the floor. I straightened and looked into clear gray-blue eyes. “Chivalry isn’t really dead, you know.

  Tammara Webber

  Sorry, Eye, Blue

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• Take some very deep breaths," Miranda said. "Relax. Concentrate. Then envision a frosty six-pack and wiggle your pinky." A frosty six-pack. Kylie inhaled. He held out her pinky, and right then Della chimed in. "We are talking a six=pack of soda, not a cold guy with good-looking abs, right?" There was a strange kind of sizzle in the air. And suddenly appearing in front of the refrigerator was a shirtless, shivering guy with great abs. His blue eyes studied the three of them in complete bafflement. "What the...!" he muttered. Kylie gasped. Miranda giggled. Della snorted with laughter.

  C.C. Hunter

  Laughter, Eye, Air

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• Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.

  Hilary Mantel

  Book, Writing, People

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• Sam picked up his pack, but before he could put it on, Mogget leaped onto it and slid under the top flap. All that could be seen of him were his green eyes and one white-furred ear. "Remember I advised against this way," he instructed. "Wake me when whatever terrible thing is a about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet.

  Garth Nix

  Eye, White, Ears

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• He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.

  Craig Ferguson

  Dog, Animal, Sheep

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• What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?

  Jana Oliver

  Flames, Underwear, Shade

  Jana Oliver (2012). “Forgiven”, p.282, Macmillan

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• Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Long, Comfort

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.134, Penguin

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• Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mad

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1401, Penguin

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• I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

  Kathy Reichs

  What If, Enough, Ifs

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• Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.

  Patricia Briggs

  Talking, Lists, Public Speaking

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.124, Penguin

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• Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  William Golding

  Hunting, Law, Like You

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.131, Hamilton Books

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• How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on to the next picnic table.

  Josh Lanyon

  Moving, People, Tables

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• Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dark, Tree, Leaving

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.107, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When she was like this, the wildness of her barely contained, it was hard to believe she'd come into his pack Silent, her emotions blockaded behind so much ice, it had infuriated his wolf.

  Nalini Singh

  Believe, Ice, Emotion

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.14, Penguin

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• Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.

  Jim Butcher

  Brother, Men, Kind

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.

  Patricia Briggs

  Moving, People, Chess

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• Coyotes hunt in packs, and so do assholes.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Coyotes, Hunts

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.

  Patricia Briggs

  Girl, Names, Car

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson”, p.110, Hachette UK

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• Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

  Dan Brown

  Eye, Men, Ostriches

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• If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Memories, People

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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