Pieces Quotes - Page 3

• I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.

  Tori Amos

  Thinking

  "Song: Tear In Your Hand ("Little Earthquakes")". 1992.

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• I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces.

  Fred Foster

  Bills, Scales, Customs

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just walk away from it. Just forget about it. Just do something else, completely distract yourself, and you'll see, it's like a computer. Eventually, it will deliver it up." And I find that's really true.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Mother, Brain, Want

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• the missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half

  Kami Garcia

  Memories, Heart, Missing

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• Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Kings, Fall, World

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.172, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

  Brené Brown

  Flying, Storm, Stories

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• I tried to hold myself apart, showing only what I wanted, doling out bits and pieces of who I was. But that only works out for so long. Eventually, even the smallest fragments can't help but, make a whole.

  Sarah Dessen

  Long, Work Out, Helping

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.93, Penguin

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• Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Together, Relentless, Shattered

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• Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Another Day, Sometimes, Harm

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.32, eKitap Projesi

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• Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold what’s broken, and the pieces fly all over, and though you think you might be able to find them all again, one or two will always be missing. I flew apart. I broke. I shattered like a crystal vase dropped on a concrete floor, and pieces of me scattered all over. Some of them I was glad to see go. Some I never wanted to see again.

  Megan Hart

  Thinking, Two, Broken

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• on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Writing, White, Paper

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mother, Law, Serenity

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Little Earthquakes”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a symbol for God and my struggles with hair removal as a metaphor for virtue

  Tina Fey

  Spiritual, Struggle, Hair

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

  Daniel Inouye

  Powerful, Military, War

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Three, Furniture

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're from." "Oh. L-A-Y-T-O-N." "Ah-Lay-ton." That's what I said." "No you didn't. You just said, 'Lay'en.'" "So I did. But just go ahead and pronounce 'aluminum' for me, Mr. British Man. How are you going to defend that piece of insanity? Why don't you spell it and count syllables and see if your al-um-in-ium makes sense whatsoever?" He bowed his head. "Touch...

  Shannon Hale

  Men, Lakes, Cities

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• One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas he'd mislaid and forgotten... There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish?

  Ted Hughes

  Spring, Ideas, Giving

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• Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open yourself to a poem with a quiet, receptive mind, in the same way you might listen to a difficult piece of music... If you seize upon a poem and try to extort its meaning before you are ready, it remains opaque. If you bring your own personal agenda to bear upon it, the poem will close upon itself like a clam, because you have denied its unique and separate identity, its inviolate holiness.

  Karen Armstrong

  Unique, Mind, Trying

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• He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar.

  Christine Feehan

  Children, Taken, Home

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.152, Penguin

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• You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.

  Deb Caletti

  People, Guy, Parent

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• There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Pain, Needs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.645, Macmillan

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• When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Jobs, Cancer, Heart

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

  Charles Yu

  Three, Dollars, Cry

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.219, Vintage

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• When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Parent, Finding Yourself

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Flower, Boys, Light

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.6, Harper Collins

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