Should Have Quotes - Page 34

• I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Heart, Done, Stones

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.78, Penguin

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• I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Regret, Father, Grieving

  Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Partner: Jane Eyre & Anna Karenina”, p.50, Random House

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• What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there—they’d be so disappointed.” I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. “Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren’t suave.

  Kiersten White

  Sexy, Flirting, Thinking

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• If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Names, Giving, Heavy

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.108, Penguin

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• All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Names, Space, People

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• Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.

  Neil Gaiman

  Night, Light, People

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• It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

  Christine Feehan

  Looks, Done, Path

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Sea Storm”, p.174, Penguin

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• In such times as we are in, whether the threats be global or local or in individual lives, I too pray for the children. Some days it seems that a sea of temptation and transgression inundates them, simply washes over them before they can successfully withstand it, before they should have to face it. And often at least some of the forces at work seem beyond our personal control. Well, some of them may be beyond our control, but I testify with faith in the living God that they are not beyond His.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Sea, Temptation

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• You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

  Mitch Albom

  Fall, Airplane, Thinking

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• If you want, I can carry you—” “I’m fine,” she said shortly. “Let’s go.” He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Want, Said, Fine

  Suzanne Brockmann (2002). “Out of Control”, p.368, Ballantine Books

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• physical beauty should have no importance in a lasting relationship.

  Julie Garwood

  Importance, Lasting Relationship, Physical Beauty

  Julie Garwood (2011). “Gentle Warrior”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."

  David Eddings

  Thinking, Might, Matter

  "The Seeress of Kell".

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• I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Song, Fighting, Thinking

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• Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word. "Adequate?" He took my hand, placed it on the part in question. It immediately began to stir. He moved my hand on it, and I obligingly circled it with my fingers. "This is adequate?" "Maybe I should have said it's a gracious plenty?" "A gracious plenty. I like that," he said.

  Charlaine Harris

  Hands, Adequate, Faces

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.869, Penguin

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• His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be mounted by a randy stallion

  Larissa Ione

  Waiting, Thanks, Instinct

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• It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

  John le Carre

  Eight, Solitude, Age

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• Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Motivation, Talent

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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• If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?

  John Green

  Should, Let Her Go, Ifs

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.119, Penguin

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• I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

  Norton Juster

  Hands, Way, Gone

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.101, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• As Luke knelt down beside his corpse, Clary couldn’t help but remember what he had said about having loved Valentine once, about having been his closest friend. Luke, she thought with a pang. Surely he couldn’t be sad — or even grieved? But then again, perhaps everyone should have someone to grieve for them, and there was no one else to grieve for Valentine.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Grieving, Helping

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• You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Clothes, Black, Faces

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.288, Hachette UK

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• Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.

  Sarah Dessen

  Dark, Night, Light

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.115, Penguin

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• I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Love You, Thinking, Loving Someone

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• The kiss was the definition of perfect. True, it lacked the heat, the passion, the breathlessness of the living-world kiss she had given Milos, but this had something greater. More than a flash of fire, it had an unbreakable, perhaps eternal bond of connection. Mikey had transformed back into himself by the end of the kiss, and the moment their lips parted he knew, as he should have known long, long ago, that no one - not Milos, not another Afterlight, not anyone in any world - could ever come between him and Allie, from now until the day they met their maker.

  Neal Shusterman

  Passion, Kissing, Fire

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• unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

  Moliere

  Happiness, Unbroken, Bores

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