Saga Quotes

• Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

  Alex Haley

  Roots, People, My Family

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• If this is how you’re going to react, I’ll freak out more often.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Moon, Black

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• Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

  Edward Hoagland

  Character, Animal, Play

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• I may not be a human, but I am a man.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Men, May

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• No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Marriage, Twilight, Long

  "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• I gave you life. You’re wasting it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Parenting, Parent, Breaking Dawn

  "Breaking Dawn". Book by Stephenie Meyer, August 2, 2008.

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• Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• What am I going to do with you? Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Kissing, Yesterday

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.212, Hachette UK

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• Look after my heart - I've left it with you.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Twilight, Heart

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.

  Nicki Minaj

  Life Is, Whole Life, Never Ending

  "Nicki Minaj Recalls Pre-Success Suicidal Thoughts" by James Dinh, www.mtv.com. October 07, 2011.

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• If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

  Gus Van Sant

  Car, Stories, Unfolding

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• The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.

  David Gemmell

  Odd Things, Dry, Mouths

  "Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 22, May 1, 1988.

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• Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.

  Jack Campbell

  People, Interesting, Terrible

  Jack Campbell (2008). “The Lost Fleet: Valiant”, p.184, Penguin

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• If I had known that this movie would bring so much craziness, I don't know if I would have said 'yes' to the Twilight Saga. I never asked to be a poster-boy.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Boys, Fame

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• Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

  David Mitchell

  Mother, Real, Book

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.357, Random House

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• Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell." - Bella Swan.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Swans, Smell

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• Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?"   "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?"   "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Writing, Epic, Thinking

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray do not confuse the exercise of the imagination with mere mendacity. I am a master of the mysteries of words, their meanings and music and mellifluous magic.

  Frances Hardinge

  Children, Exercise, Imagination

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.

  Richard Powers

  Mother, Children, Spring

  Richard Powers (2009). “Generosity: An Enhancement”, p.166, Macmillan

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• I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote down that what they sought was an escape from an old world which dictated their conscience and established their merit based on who their parents.

  Alan Keyes

  People, Parent, World

  "Preparing Our Country for the 21st Century: The Official Transcript of the United We Stand America Conference". Book by United We Stand America Inc., November, 1995.

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• Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

  Henning Mankell

  Historical, Would Be, Kingdoms

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

  Elon Musk

  Animal, Important Events, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Speaking of which, would you like to explain to me how you’re alive

  Stephenie Meyer

  Alive, New Moon

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

  James Wolcott

  Swans, Scary, Black

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• Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

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