Pieces Quotes - Page 31

• Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Soul, Killing, Trade

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• The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to defend her husband at all costs, because while he was weak and practically defenseless—only allowed to move one square at a time—she was the strongest player on the board, hindered by no restrictions at all.

  Rachel Vincent

  Jobs, Queens, Powerful

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.75, MIRA

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• If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

  Thomas Browne

  Confused, Taken, Men

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 1

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• The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Yellow, Long, Mad

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2000, Delphi Classics

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• If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Heart, Space, Work Out

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2001). “Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.302, Penguin

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• It was the most convulted, ridiculous piece of logic I'd heard in awhile... It was something I would have come up with.

  Richelle Mead

  Ridiculous, Logic, Come Up

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• If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

  Markus Zusak

  Thinking, Silence, Despair

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.21, RH Childrens Books

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• The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.

  Ross Macpherson Smith

  Men, Air, Pilots

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• Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspiring, Bottom Of The Barrel, Inspire

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• I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fighting, Everyday, Important

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.431, Penguin

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• But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hopeful, Awful, Today

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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• So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.

  Suzanne Collins

  Real, Names, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

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• Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umberto, were the garments of men who have no virtues left, not even shame.

  Anne Fortier

  Golf, Men, Long

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.6, Ballantine Books

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• I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.

  Dave Mustaine

  Numbers, Soul, Devil

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• To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be...gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier...it is a wonder-working book. If it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself and leads him one step toward the God of the Universe, it is a beneficial book.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Book, Eye, Thinking

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.33, eBookIt.com

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• Both Christian and Adrian had worried there would be some piece of Strigoi left in him, but their fears had been about violence and bloodshed. No one would have guessed this: that living as a Strigoi had hardened his heart, killing any chance of him loving anyone. Killing any chance of him loving me. And I was pretty sure that if that was the case, then part of me would die too.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Heart, Would Be

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1042, Penguin

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• Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.

  Sarah Richardson

  Balance, Body, Jewelry

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• No one will want a piece of us in 2009.

  Charlie Weis

  Want

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• I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Snacks, Six, Sometimes

  "What Chrissy Teigen Eats (Almost) Every Day" by Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.

  Victor LaValle

  Writing, Character, Voice

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• And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. There was no escape. The Spirit that made it was in it, shaping it and reshaping it, sometimes lying at rest, sometimes standing up and shaking itself, like a muddy horse, and letting the pieces fly.

  Wendell Berry

  Horse, Lying, Forever

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, p.98, Counterpoint Press

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• A ceiling fixture that places a floating assembly of large pebbles below a simple modern aluminum disc. These in turn reflect each other, bouncing light between their taught bio-morphic surfaces and reflecting the environment around them. During the day, the piece acts as a sculptural object reflecting the dynamics of natural light and movement of people around them.

  Ross Lovegrove

  Simple, Light, People

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• Hope is a waking dream.' I let the words echo in my head. The quote reminded me of that feeling you get when you start to wake from a dream you don't want to leave. That crushing sensation in the center of your chest, like you are losing an important piece of yourself you won't ever get back.

  Jennifer Rush

  Crush, Dream, Echoes

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• Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and it's the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away. Why can't you see that? How can you talk about watching over me if you can't see that?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Feet, Relax

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