Strange Quotes - Page 36

• I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Beautiful, Thinking, Humanity

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Mother, Forget, Being Human

  Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.321, Penguin UK

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• They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pet, Mouths, Noise

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.96, Harper Collins

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• And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind.

  William Carlos Williams

  Autumn, Winter, Wind

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

  Nora Roberts

  Fate, Together, Twists

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• [on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Giving Up, Hands, People

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

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• She liked to imagine him stealing a glimpse of her over the backyard fence, proudly watching his strange daughter daydream under the beech tree. Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Daughter, Father, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.85, Scholastic Inc.

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• It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Angel, Crow, Towels

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• With a strange half-mocking tone, Aislinn said, "It's not just guys like those today. Even the pretty ones can be awful. Don't trust them just because they're pretty." Donia laughed, coldly, sounding every bit Beira's creature in that moment. "Where were you when I needed that advice? I've already gone out with the biggest mistake a girl can make.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, Mistake, Guy

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• It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

  Franny Billingsley

  Clutch, Persons, Stills

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.92, A&C Black

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• and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jobs, Prayer, Heart

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.99, Chosen Books

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• We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.

  Bram Stoker

  May, Way, England

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.20, Zillmann Publishing

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• Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

  Aravind Adiga

  Book, Heart, Too Much

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• Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.).

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Expectations, Events

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.5, Vintage

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• About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on. Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Scary, Sound, Roaring

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  World, Weapons, Danger

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• I got the feeling Poseidon really didn't know what to think of me. He didn't know whether he was happy to have me as a son or not. In a strange way, I was glad that Poseidon was so distant. If he'd tried to apologize, or told me he love me, or even smiled. it would've felt fake. Like human dad, making some lame excuse for not being around. I could live with that. After all, I wasn't sure about him yet, either.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Son, Thinking

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• He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

  Oscar Wilde

  Expression, Trying, Emotion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.27, GENERAL PRESS

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• You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Brother, Father, Years

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• Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

  Michael Palin

  Lying, Government, Holy Grail

  "Fictional character: Dennis". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.

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• He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.

  T. H. White

  Sea, Jumping, Talking

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.39, Penguin

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• Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with a shopping cart, hollering at no one, nothing, tumbling through years in her head. No. Sometimes it is a girl wearing boots and jeans and a sweater, arms crossed in front of her, shivering, wandering through the streets at night, all night, murmuring to no one, nothing, tumbling through the strange unreal dimensions in her head.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Girl, Crazy, Night

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• It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn’t think you could stand it, but then you plunged in and pretty soon you got used to it. There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.

  Lev Grossman

  Thinking, Water, Scary

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.575, Penguin

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• We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

  Annie Proulx

  Growing Up, Differences, Disguise

  Annie Proulx (1996). “The Shipping news”

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• Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Baseball, Children, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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