Strange Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• Strange world isn't it?

  Stephenie Meyer

  World, Strange World

  "The Host". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.

  Markus Zusak

  Men, Hair, Opposites

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• Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

  Sue Grafton

  Heart, Dark, Black

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.208, Macmillan

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• Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Mean, Reality

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• Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

  Suzanne Collins

  Color, Risk, Your Favorite

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• Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?

  Ray Bradbury

  Promise, Balance, Twenties

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• Strange? I don't think that word comes anywhere near it. My troops are on an overnight camp three hundred kilometres away from here. I had to sleep at the Santangelo penitentiary for pre-pubescent girls.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Sleep, Thinking

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• It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ignored, Wonderful, Boring

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• Dying for dark — and the darker the Worse. Strange.

  Samuel Beckett

  Dark, Dying

  "Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays".

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• Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Hurt, Vanity, Rose

  "The Beautiful and Damned".

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• Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Forever, Desire

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.284, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Past, Sometimes

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.440, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.

  Richard Brautigan

  Heart, Voice, Differences

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Real, Labyrinth, Wire

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Mean, World, May

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• We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Life, Dream, Chasing

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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• It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.

  Bram Stoker

  Kings, Fall, Heart

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula (Fidia Classics)”, p.171, Bram Stoker

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• You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.

  Michael Crichton

  Believe, Jurassic Park, Chaos

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• Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Reading, Symbolism, People

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• For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Property

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.179, Oxford University Press

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• The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?

  Mary Balogh

  Pain, People, Giving

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series”, p.164, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Knowing, Rose, Joy

  Kevin Brockmeier (2011). “The Illumination”, p.37, Random House

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• And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

  H. G. Wells

  Gratitude, Flower, Heart

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.57, Sparklesoup LLC

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• You two are a strange pair. You are a pair, aren't you?" "We're in training.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Two, Training, Pairs

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.369, Scholastic UK

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