Peter Quotes - Page 5

• Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?

  Brom

  Faces, Clouded

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• The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?

  Brom

  Boys, Hands, Play

  Brom (2009). “The Child Thief: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?

  Brom

  Lost, Left Behind, Behinds

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• But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

  Brom

  Men, Needs, Too Much

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• Enough talk," Peter said, and his eyes flashed. "It's time to turn you three into killers.

  Brom

  Eye, Three, Killers

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• I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.

  Veronica Roth

  Revolution, Follow Me, Turns

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• You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

  James M. Barrie

  Thinking, Air, Lovely

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.27, 谷月社

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• I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself—when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Forget Everything, Volunteer

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• At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the Graeco-Roman world; an obscure monk like Luther bathed Europe in blood. The voice of a Galileo or a Newton will never have the least echo among the masses. The inventors of genius hasten the march of civilization. The fanatics and the hallucinated create history.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Men, Civilization, Voice

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• Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

  Bettany Hughes

  Past, History, Stronger

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• My name's Peter. Can I play too?

  Brom

  Play, Names

  Brom (2009). “The Child Thief: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

  James M. Barrie

  Long, Bells, Littles

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.130, 谷月社

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• Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could not." For he is Peter Augustus Duchene, and he will always return to me. Again and again, Peter's father threw him up in the air. Again and again, Peter felt himself suspended in nothingness for a moment, just a moment, and then he was pulled back, returned to the sweetness of the earth and the warmth of his father's waiting arms. "See?" said his father to his mother. "Do you see how he always comes back to me?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Father, Air

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• Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from Peter Van Houten featuring phrases like ‘our triumphantly digitized contemporaneity’?” “You could not,” I allowed. “Can I, can I have the email address?” “Of course,” Augustus said, like it was not the best gift ever.

  John Green

  Grace, Intellectual, Email

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.69, Penguin

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• I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Ignorance, Hiding, Said

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• A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

  James M. Barrie

  Stars, Breathing, Littles

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Forever is a very long time Peter

  James M. Barrie

  Long, Forever, Long Time

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• Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Artist, Order

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Raphael continued to stare at me, in no hurry to get started. "You know the best way to get rid of a demon, right?" He asked with a serious face. I caught Ivy rolling her eyes as I shook my head. "Exorcise alot!" Ivy caught my expression of dismay. "It's okay, Beth. He's famous for his bad jokes. We're still waiting for him to grow up." "And like Peter Pan, I hope to avoid that at all costs.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Growing Up, Eye, Expression

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• I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.

  Connie Willis

  Latin, Book, College

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• If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Boys, Leader

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• That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.

  Dave Barry

  Black, Ships, Crew

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• You and Teacher,” said Molly. “Yes,” said Peter. “She’s very clever. You’ll like her.” “I’m sure,” said Molly.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Clever, Like Her

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• She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Hair, Want

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• What do--" Tobias's voice. Tobias! "Oh my God. Oh--" "Spare me your blubbering, okay? Peter says. "She's not dead; she's just paralyzed. It'll only last for about a minute. Now get ready to run." I don't understand. How does Peter know? "Let me carry her," Tobias says. "No. You're a better shot than I am. Take my gun. I'll carry her.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Gun, Voice

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