Parks Quotes - Page 33

• I don’t like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for you

  Rainbow Rowell

  Love, Thinking, Sometimes

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• Nothing was dirty. With Park. Nothing could be shameful. Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dirty, Thinking, Way

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.227, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Hair, Ducks

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• Until this moment, she’d kept Park in a place in her head that she thought Richie couldn't get to. Completely separate from this house and everything that happened here. (It was a pretty awesome place. Like the only part of her head fit for praying.)

  Rainbow Rowell

  House, Praying, Fit

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Whenever he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I feel like giving him a nut,” she said. She even started calling the squirrels running around in the park Mr. Whitmans.

  Kerstin Gier

  Running, Eye, Squirrels

  Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.10, Macmillan

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• so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the same for the women clinging to the branch above the cat. she was the one screaming. The cougar-a ragged-ear old top I clled Marv-just stared at her, like he couldn't believe anyone would be dumb to climb a tree to escape a cat.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Believe, Cat, Tree

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• He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

  Robin Sloan

  Book, Rosemary, Quiet

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• If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hair, Fishing, People

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.30, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Normal and I parted ways when Pateir1ch strolled into my life. Patch has seven inches on me, operates on cold, hard logic, moves like smoke, and lives alone in a supersecret, superswanky studio beneath Delphic Amusement Park. The sound of his voice, low and sexy, can melt my heart in three seconds flat. He’s also a fallen angel, kicked out of heaven for his flexibility when it comes to following rules. I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Running, Sexy, Moving

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• That’s what a skinwalker is: a mean asshole with a meaner spirit squatting inside.” "I’ve run into some of those at the dog park," Oberon said. "They’re usually attached to Chihuahuas.

  Kevin Hearne

  Running, Dog, Mean

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four”, p.72, Del Rey

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• This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she wants you to invite your girlfriend over for dinner." "So that she can make her feel bad and weird?" "Well she is kind of weird, isn't she?" Park didn't have the energy to be angry. He sighed and let his head fall back on the chair. His dad kept talking. "Isn't that why you like her?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mother, Girlfriend, Hurt

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• Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.

  George Saunders

  Broke, Agree, Ifs

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December”, p.207, A&C Black

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• Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park, waded into the Serpetine, spread his arms wide, and was shouting, 'Ducks, embrace me as your king!

  Cassandra Clare

  Kings, Ducks, Arms

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Two, Skins, Hours

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.225, St. Martin's Griffin

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• His parents never talked about how they met, but when Park was younger, he used to try to imagine it. He loved how much they loved each other. It was the thing he thought about when he woke up scared in the middle of the night. Not that they loved him--they were his parents, they had to love him. That they loved each other. They didn't have to do that.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Night, Parent, Trying

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.268, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away. Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Missing Someone, Loss, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.276, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Don't feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs, you can drive there to run.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Dog, Nice

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• Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it.

  Paolo Maldini

  Games, Play, Celtic Park

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• One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

  Alan Turing

  Morning, Funny Things, One Day

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• The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Appreciation, Adventure, Past

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• We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

  Al Pacino

  Want, Stuff, Baths

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• Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

  Stanley Kubrick

  War, Writing, Car

  Acceptance speech of the D.W. Griffiths Lifetime Achievement Award, www.indelibleinc.com. 1999.

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• The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.

  Stephen Breyer

  Fun, Exercise, Advice

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• If people knew where the sounds in Jurassic Park came from, it'd be rated R!

  Gary Rydstrom

  People, Jurassic Park, Sound

  "Childhood Over: The Dinosaur Sounds In ‘Jurassic Park’ Were A Menagerie Of Animals Having Sex" by Caleb Reading, uproxx.com. April 11, 2013.

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• The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

  John Ruskin

  Greatness, Squares, Civilization

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