Should Have Quotes - Page 36

• We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Yesterday, Wiser, Died

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• ...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

  Donald Miller

  People, Skins, Grows

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own lives." He nuzzled the top of her head with his chin. "It's ego and sheer desperation. We have to keep you thinking we're the superior species." "News flash, Jack - no women on the face of earth believes that anymore." He trailed kisses down her cheek. "But men don't know women know that. We still live in our fantasy world, so don't muck it up for us.

  Christine Feehan

  Running, Believe, Kissing

  Christine Feehan (2006). “Conspiracy Game”, p.96, Penguin

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• And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault." "It isn't?" "No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb." Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse.

  Christine Feehan

  Laughing, Would Be, Firsts

  Christine Feehan (2006). “Conspiracy Game”, p.233, Penguin

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• she glanced down and saw that a glove of blood covered her lower arm from the elbow to the wrist. The arm was throbbing, stiff, and painful. "Is this when you start tearing strips off your T-shirt to bind up my wound?" she joked. She hated the sight of blood, especially her own. "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked." He dug into his pocket and brought out his stele. "It would have been a lot less painful.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rip, Clothes, Sight

  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.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.

  Richard Paul Evans

  School, Lightning, May

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Nov 29, 2011

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• I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Years, Done

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Still, this whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual. Or a diagram of some kind. A flowchart would have been nice.

  Darynda Jones

  Nice, Kind, Grim Reaper

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.165, St. Martin's Press

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• No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Should, Bonnets

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1133, GENERAL PRESS

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• He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Moving, Roots, Want

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• I adored you,” North said. “I just didn’t tell you. You were the most amazing thing that had ever happened to me. Nothing else like you in my world before or since. I was crazy about you. I still am. Ten years later you walk into my office and I see you and it’s like the first time, I can’t think, I can’t talk, I just need you with me. It makes me crazy, but now that I’ve got you back . . . You’re everything, Andie. I should have told you that before.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Crazy, Thinking, Years

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• If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Men, Confusion

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now.

  Maeve Binchy

  Past, Years, Tears

  FaceBook post by Maeve Binchy from Sep 13, 2012

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• Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stars, Blow, Lakes

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.166, Macmillan

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• You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an excuse, accusing her of not appreciating or accepting me, when I should have been saying those words into a mirror.

  Jay Asher

  Mom, Mirrors, Appreciate

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.188, Penguin

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• You're really not that good a mechanic, Edward. Maybe you should have Rosalie take a look at it tonight, just so you look good if Mike decides to let you help, you know. Not that it wouldn't be fun to watch his face if Rosalie showed up to help. But since Rosalie is supposed to be across the country attending college, I guess that's not the best idea. Too bad.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Country, Fun, College

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to Reader's Digest.

  Darynda Jones

  Coffee, Chocolate, Together

  Darynda Jones (2011). “For I Have Sinned (A Charley Davidson Story): A HeroesandHeartbreakers.com Original”, p.58, Macmillan

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• I understood finally that the thing I should have feared most was not loss, but never loving. The price for safety was the regret I felt at this moment. And yet I would have to live with it for the rest of my life

  Lisa Kleypas

  Regret, Loss, Safety

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.341, Macmillan

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• This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Secret, Common

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.19, Penguin

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• Daphne," he said with controlled gentleness, "what is wrong?" She sat down opposite him and placed a hand on his cheek. "I'm so insensitive," she whispered. "I should have known. I should never have said anything." "Should have known what?" he ground out. Her hand fell away. "That you can't—that you couldn't—" "Can't what?" She looked down at her lap, where her hands were attempting to wring each other to shreds. "Please don't make me say it," she said. 'This," Simon muttered, "has got to be why men avoid marriage.

  Julia Quinn

  Men, Hands, Opposites

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• Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Cutting, Legs

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.107, Bantam

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• I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations

  Winston Churchill

  Ignorance, Examination, Results

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I should have mixed something stronger than Coke floats.

  Rachel Vincent

  Stronger, Coke, Floats

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.227, Harlequin

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• I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.

  Sarah Dessen

  Should

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.155, Penguin

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• Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Should

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