Saws Quotes - Page 26

Your father," Luke said, "what did he say to you when you saw him? What did he promise you?" "Oh, you know. The usual. A lifetime's supply of Knicks tickets.

Cassandra Clare

Father, Promise, Usual

Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.755, Simon and Schuster

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... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so much time on petition. I saw that it is indeed more worthy of God and more truly pleasing to him that through his goodness we should pray with full confidence, and by his grace cling to him with real understanding and unshakeable love, than that we should go on making as many petitions as our souls are capable of.

Julian of Norwich

Prayer, Real, Ignorance

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Daniel had ruined that couple’s life. Killed their daughter. All because he’d been some hotshot angel who saw something he wanted and went after it.

Lauren Kate

Daughter, Couple, Angel

Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.556, Delacorte Press

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I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

John Steinbeck

Moving, Eye, Desire

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.11, Penguin

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I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur

Janet Evanovich

Grandma, Eye, Television

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You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.

Shannon Hale

Men, Add, Legs

Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.191, A&C Black

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He said, ‘The moment I began to love you was the moment when you saw your fiddle smashed on the ground, and you turned away from me and cried against your horse. Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don’t you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening.

Kristin Cashore

Beautiful, Horse, Love You

Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.278, Penguin

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His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

J. K. Rowling

Heart, Dark, Golden Days

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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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How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

Barbara Kingsolver

Regret, Skins, Crime

Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.412, Faber & Faber

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When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

Zora Neale Hurston

Doors, Sky, Clouds

Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.189, University of Illinois Press

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Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

Ray Bradbury

Long, Coward, Way

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.39, Hamilton Books

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This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

Richard Brautigan

Country, Morning, Ocean

Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I let her through. She checked Derek's pulse and his breathing, saying both seemed okay, then leaned down to his face. "Nothing weird on his breath. Smells . . . like toothpaste." Derek's eyes opened, and the first thing he saw was Tori's face inches from his. He jumped and let out an oath. Simon cracked up. I madly motioned for him to be quiet. "Are you okay?" I asked Derek. "He is now," Simon said. "After Tori jump-started his heart.

Kelley Armstrong

Heart, Eye, Breathing

Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: Number 3 in series”, p.197, Hachette UK

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You're telling me that you can raise the dead by simply summoning?" "Yes." "My God," she whispered, staring at me."What have they done?" Hearing her words and seeing her expression, I knew I'd just done something worse than raising the dead-- I'd confirmed her worst fears about us. In her eyes, I saw the same thing I saw when people looked at Derek. I saw fear. And I knew we were in trouble.

Kelley Armstrong

Eye, Expression, People

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Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?

Scott Westerfeld

Dust, Mad, Tears

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When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?

James Gleick

Firsts, Gulliver, Watches

James Gleick (2000). “Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything”, Vintage

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When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.

Sarah Addison Allen

Beautiful, Winter, Wrinkles

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.31, Bantam

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It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good to be a dog, I thought. You would feel safe surrounded by all of these leggy objects that never tried to run away.

Augusten Burroughs

Running, Dog, House

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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

Victor Hugo

Stars, Dark, Sky

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.614, Wordsworth Editions

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Who are you?' Mo looked at the White Women. Then he looked at Dustfinger's still face. Guess.' The bird ruffled up its golden feathers, and Mo saw that the mark on its breast was blood. You are Death.' Mo felt the word heavy on his tongue. Could any word be heavier?

Cornelia Funke

Blood, White, Bird

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.225, Scholastic Inc.

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But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.

Patricia Highsmith

Light, Self, Hands

Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company

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Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

Gregory Maguire

Eye, World, You Again

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I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.

John Swartzwelder

Crazy, Guy, Rooms

John Swartzwelder (2004). “The Time Machine Did It”

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