Saws Quotes - Page 21

• Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Uncles, Farewell, Said

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• I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liars, Should Have, Punishment

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

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• Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Valentine, Firsts

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• What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.

  Michael Lewis

  League, Might, Faithfulness

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• I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it.

  Veronica Roth

  Father, Insecurity, Selfishness

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• Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.

  Ally Carter

  Aunt, Hair, July

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• Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

  Iain Banks

  Years, Waking Life, Ordinary

  Iain Banks (1986). “The bridge”

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• Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Men, Dancing, Singing

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.87, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's always feeling me, but if they put the glass in his hands he wouldn't touch it, he wouldn't think, "that's hers," you ought to love all of somebody, the esophagus, the liver, the intestines. Maybe we don't love them because we aren't used to them, but if we saw them the way we saw our hands and arms maybe we'd love them; the starfish must love each other better than we do.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Glasses, Hands

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2010). “The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.56, New Directions Publishing

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• Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

  Robin Hobb

  Loneliness, Two, Evening

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.46, Spectra

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• I saw something in his pretty green eyes that I had never seen before: Anger. They were like emerald fire

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Fire, Emeralds

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• Kyle gazed down at her. “I lied when I said I followed you to the bar because you’re hot.” He touched her cheek. “I saw you laughing with your friends, and your smile sucked me right in.

  Julie James

  Laughing, Your Smile, Hot

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.28, Penguin

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• That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

  Suzanne Collins

  Firsts, First Time, Transformed

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?

  Joan Bauer

  School, Psychics, Doe

  Joan Bauer (2009). “Peeled”, p.80, Penguin

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• I saw you laughing with your friends, and your smile sucked me right in.

  Julie James

  Laughing, Your Smile

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.28, Penguin

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• You saw me before I saw you. You had that look in your eyes, as if you wanted something. Wanted it for a long time.

  Lucy Christopher

  Eye, Long, Looks

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• My hair is so scary that if you saw it walking down the street, you'd cross to the other side. This humidity is not helping. It's just an excuse for my hair to let its frizz flag fly.

  Susane Colasanti

  Hair, Scary, Flags

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.17, Penguin

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• If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Destiny, Grandparent

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. I glanced over and saw strands of her hair blowing all around her face. Even though I could see her there, I felt entirely alone among these big and empty buildings, like I'd survived the apocalypse and the world had been given to me, this whole and amazing and endless world, mine for the exploring.

  John Green

  Moving, Sleep, Blow

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.53, A&C Black

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• And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Eye, Surprise

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.956, Delphi Classics

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• When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Organization, Soldier

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• Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Fall, Snow

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• All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Brother, Lying, Eye

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• He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

  Orson Scott Card

  Missing, Trying, Who We Are

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