Pieces Quotes - Page 16

• There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

  Jodi Picoult

  Past, Starting Over, Use

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.378, Penguin

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• I'm Teoish," Sarene said, successfully spearing something that looked like a marinated piece of shrimp. "We're all this tall." "Father's Teoish too, Kaise," Daorn said. "And you know how tall he is." "But father's fat," Kaise pointed out. "Why aren't you fat too, Sarene?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Father, Shrimp, Said

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.61, Macmillan

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• to know a piece of grass, you’ve got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that’s why I remember every detail of that night, every inch of ground we covered, as I followed Zach to the place that had made him, seeing them both with fresh eyes.

  Ally Carter

  Eye, Night, Details

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• "Anybody have money?" Frank checked his pockets. "Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian." Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. "Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and - score! A piece of celery." He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next.

  Rick Riordan

  Two, Pockets, Jupiter

  "The Mark of Athena". Book by Rick Riordan, October 2, 2012.

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• Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.

  J. K. Rowling

  Crumbling, Weight, Feels

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.246, Hachette UK

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• I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mind, Scratches, Steel

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.

  Veronica Roth

  Nice, Mind, Together

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• They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Stars, Memories, Kissing

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• Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hero, Finals, Want

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.173, Delacorte Press

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• Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?

  Brandon Mull

  World, Outcomes, Necks

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

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• I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

  Sarah Dessen

  Tired, Hanging On, Torn

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.123, Penguin

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• Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die on piece at a time.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Pain, Hate, Thinking

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• So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it’s actually you that’s time-shifted?

  Robin Sloan

  Mean, Media, Doe

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

  Dante Alighieri

  Rocks, Broken, World

  Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander (2000). “Inferno”, Doubleday Books

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• bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

  Kami Garcia

  Heart, Moon, Glasses

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• You’re the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you

  Demi Lovato

  Song, Missing, Needs

  Song: This is Me

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• Piece of Heaven?" "No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Heaven, Sydney Sage

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• (T)he world is broken up into pieces, and...it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.

  Wendy Mass

  Broken, Together, World

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• The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Heart, Broken

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• Any chance of getting something sweet to go with my coffee?” [Finn] asked in a hopeful voice. I arched an eyebrow at him. “You mean all those pieces of strawberry pie that you ate for lunch weren't enough?” “I’m a growing boy,” Finn said in a sincere tone. “I need my vitamins.” Bria snorted. “The only thing that’s growing on you, Lane, is your ego.” Finn sidled up to my sister and gave her a dazzling smile. “Well, other things of mine also tend to swell up in your presence, detective.

  Jennifer Estep

  Sweet, Coffee, Mean

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• It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. He doesn't love me. He never loved me. It was all a lie. "The old Lena is dead." I say, and then push past him. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hurt, Wall, Lying

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Night, Wind, Forever

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• You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Giving, Clue

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.

  Robert Walser

  Pain, Smart, Blood

  Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Stop. Breathe those useless breaths. Drop this piece of life you’re holding to your lips. Where are you? How long have you been here? Stop now. You have to stop. Squeeze shut your stinging eyes, and take another bite.

  Isaac Marion

  Eye, Long, Useless

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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