Sight Quotes - Page 21

• My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy - but it's never him, and each time it isn't, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart, Boys, Thinking

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.223, Hachette UK

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• Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.

  Ann Voskamp

  Loss, Black, Looks

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.16, Zondervan

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• Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

  Kami Garcia

  Butterfly, Like Love, Killers

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• is love at first sight truly possible?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love At First Sight, Firsts

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “At First Sight”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

  Ralph Ellison

  Mind, Patterns, Chaos

  Ralph Ellison (1952). “Invisible Man”

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• Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Morning, Laughter

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• John you say you met in an elevator. Was the elevator going up at the time, or down? This is very important, for going down in an elevator one always has that sinking feeling and for all I know you may have this confused with love. If you were going up, it is clearly a case of love at first sight.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Confused

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• My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot.

  Deb Caletti

  Running, Father, Mean

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Feet, Steel

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• Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sometimes, Hiding, Hiding In Plain Sight

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• Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special. There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Mad, Special

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts -
  which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts - in other words, one out of every two or three people you know.

  Susan Cain

  Mean, Two, People

  "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking". Book by Susan Cain, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2012.

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• There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind’s home-theatre system with Dolby surround sound until you’re so desperate to be rid of them that you’ll resort to other loops simply to dislodge them for a while.

  Kevin Hearne

  Home, Surround Sound, Mind

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.810, Del Rey

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• On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Fire, Sides, Plus

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.304, Del Rey

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• I told him what my dad had said. That got him laughing and as we pulled into the school parking lot, even the sight of Rafe waiting for me only made him roll his eyes. We got out. I glanced at Daniel. He sighed. "Go on." "You sound like you're giving a five-year-old permission to play with an unsuitable friend." "If the shoe fits..." I flipped him off. "Watch it or I won't marry you," he said. "Truck of no truck." I laughed and jogged over to Rafe. "Did he just say...?" Rafe began.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dad, School, Eye

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• I'll need you to get a leash for my monkey, Claude, and also a hat." "Of course, monsieur" "Do you think he needs a little coat as well?" "Perhaps not in this weather, monsieur." "You are right," Magnus said with a sight. "Make it a simple dressing gown, just like mine." "Which one, monsieur?" "The one in rose and silver." "Excellent choice, monsieur.

  Cassandra Clare

  Simple, Thinking, Weather

  "The Bane Chronicles". Book by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson, November 11, 2014.

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• There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Compassion, Two

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

  Homer

  Strong, Heart, Soldier

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• I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I'm madly, deeply, hopelessly in love.

  Simone Elkeles

  Emotional, Self, Doe

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• He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her. His mother's face, his father's voice, the sight of Cedric, dead on the ground all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

  Rachel Klein

  Girl, Blood, Dying

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual, when each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow - flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.

  Bill Bryson

  Autumn, Green Fields, Blue

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Sep 27, 2015

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• Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.

  Rick Riordan

  Goal, Sides, Kitten

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• There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every driver became anonymous. The sight of them knocked his heartbeat askew.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sexy, Night, Light

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.

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