Pieces Quotes - Page 37

• Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

  Charles de Lint

  Interesting, Surprise, Stranger

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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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• 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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• 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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• We grew apart. The thing is, we loved each other, and on some level we always will, but when you’re twenty-three and you fall in love, you tend to think that love will supercede any problems. Realizing that no matter how much you love somebody, no matter how desperately you want a relationship to work, life can act as an oxidizer and corrode it to pieces.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Falling In Love, Love You, Thinking

  "How to Kill a Rock Star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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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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• The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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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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• Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

  Carson McCullers

  Littles, Crystals, Sometimes

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• 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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• There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff.

  Donald J. Carty

  Numbers, People, Important

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• If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Museums, Perfect, Rooms

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• I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

  Les Paul

  Sweet, Long, Sound

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• In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

  Donna Tartt

  Order, Long, Work Out

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• The secret of a successful art career is to make more art that folks think they need than pieces they just want. When a piece of art emotionally connects with a person the work becomes a need. You are then on your way to becoming successful.

  Jack White

  Art, Successful, Thinking

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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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• The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

  Lamar Alexander

  Country, Goal, Social

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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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• We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Love Life, World, Eighteen

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.30, Infobase Publishing

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• Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment.

  Friedrich Engels

  Garden, Hands, Agriculture

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• Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

  Igor Stravinsky

  Musical, Villa

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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