Should Quotes - Page 26

• I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.

  Sue Grafton

  Believe, Opportunity, Long

  Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.30, Penguin

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• Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.

  Tamora Pierce

  Mean

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.687, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of morning sun sneaking through the blinds, and you think this light isn't possible. The shutters are drawn. Night should linger on. I don't feel like waking. Yet the room comes slowly lit. Sleep slithers away, and at last you can no longer deny the dawning.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.617, Simon and Schuster

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• All right. I will be a man about this…I’m so sorry Bets. I should have hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something. I had no idea anyone would abuse you so, baby. I swear I’ll never let anyone hurt you again. Ayyy, how could they do this to you? How? Oh the humanity!” – Andy “I really need to get that boy a girlfriend- or at least laid.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Girlfriend, Hurt

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• Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

  Lew Wallace

  Dream, Real, Wine

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.477, Bible Study Steps

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• ...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Book, Men, Needs

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• We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

  Booker T. Washington

  Ignorance, Clouds, Selfishness

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.96, University of Illinois Press

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• ...even saying good-bye isn’t enough. There’s always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There’s always going to be that one missing piece.

  Mira Grant

  Should Have, Bye, Missing

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• There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the meaning of one of Robert Browning's poems, and she shows it to him, and he reads it and he tells her when he wrote that poem, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant, and now only God knows. And that's how I feel about studying English. Who knows what the writer was thinking, and why should it matter? I'd rather just read for enjoyment.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Thinking, Play, Work Out

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.469, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• You will die a worse death if you do not leave my domain,” a voice thundered down from the third story of the old tenement. “I am a servant of the Sacred Fire, the wielder of the flame of Arnor—” “So I should call you Gandalf?

  Karen Chance

  Fire, Flames, Voice

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• It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

  Christopher Paolini

  Hurt, Accomplishment, Inheritance

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

  Junot Diaz

  Arrested

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• See, Quentin, that’s why you should wear a cup before trying to assassinate someone.

  Mira Grant

  Trying, Cups, Quentin

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• Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed.

  Philip Roth

  Blessed, Perfect, Answers

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Lying, Night

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Enjoy

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Misguided Angel: Number 5 in series”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• It doesn't matter, that's the point. It doesn't matter that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. People matter, how they feel, how they connect. Who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.

  Nora Roberts

  People, Together, Matter

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• ‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

  Martin Luther

  Thinking, House, Heaven

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• You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.

  Julia Quinn

  Dark, Thinking, Color

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Feb 26, 2015

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• Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Girl, Gentleman

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• You know what I mean. And by the way, you should slow down.” I sighed. “You’re kidding me. This is coasting. This is little old lady speed.” “NASCAR drivers would have heart attacks. Slow down before we get a ticket.” “Chicken.

  Rachel Caine

  Heart, Mean, Littles

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Heat Stroke”, p.7, Allison & Busby

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• They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Should Have, Soul

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

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• Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Names, Glasses

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.63, St. Martin's Press

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• So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark.

  Michael Scott

  Dark, Virginia, Imagination

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• Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Said, Persons

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