Strange Quotes - Page 33

• Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Memories, Exile

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• How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.

  Daniel Keyes

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Daniel Keyes (2004). “Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intellectual, Laziness, Strikes

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.179, Penguin

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• The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye.

  David Benioff

  Beautiful, Powerful, Distance

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.130, Penguin

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• I'm sorry," he breathed. "You're just extremely irresistible." "Strange, men have been resisting me for years.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Men, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.569, Macmillan

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• They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.

  Suzanne Collins

  Trying, Naked, Littles

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.775, Scholastic Inc.

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• Strange what love taught you about your faults.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Taught, Faults

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.335, Scholastic Inc.

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• Is love the desire—no, the need—to be with that person, whatever the cost? Does it cause the rue of rage when you see that person with another? Does it make you ache to hold her, to whisper things that sound foreign and strange to your tongue? Does it make you wish for things you know can never be? I haven't the answers, Riley. In all that I've learned over the years, no one has ever mentioned a force such as this. But whatever it is, I feel it for you. We would have been good together.

  Keri Arthur

  Years, Together, Wish

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• And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Memories, Loss

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.360, Random House

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• It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

  Mary Balogh

  Heart, Found, Bases

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• How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)

  Craig Silvey

  World, Paper, Weight

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• O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Hands, Voice

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.160, BookCaps Study Guides

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• And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories.

  Melina Marchetta

  Summer, Laughter, Weather

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• You’re kind of a psycho. I get that.” “I might be,” Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. “You’re one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now.” Claire blinked. “Archaeologist.” Monica’s eyes turned winter cold. “Oh, you’d better start running away now.

  Rachel Caine

  Running, Smart, Eye

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.107, Penguin

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• Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.

  Aidan Chambers

  Clever, Two, Mind

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• You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children. All those sweet-looking kids who sell boxes of candy bars on the street to help pay for schooling - how do we know what's in those bars? And don't even get me stated on that nefarious institution designed to lure unsuspecting customers into buying mysterious frosted goodies: the bake sale. Adults, be warned: if a child wanted to poison you it would be a piece of cake! Literally a piece of cake.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Sweet, Children, Kids

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• He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

  Jasper Fforde

  Dad, Fire, Done

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• A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Forever, Mind

  The Prelude bk. 3, l. 60 (1850)

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• Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away.

  Michael Chabon

  Kids, Drawing, Balls

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• One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Advice, World

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• So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

  Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations, Melancholy, Familiar

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.52, The Planet

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• I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.

  Richelle Mead

  Butterfly, Fluttering, Cardiac

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1326, Penguin

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• Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Quiet, Unfinished, Sentences

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• Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

  Robert Jordan

  Children, Clothes You Wear, Dragons

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.682, Macmillan

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• Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

  Bill Bryson

  Richard Feynman, Earth, May

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.194, Lulu Press, Inc

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