Sweet Quotes - Page 24

• He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

  Jamie Ford

  Bitter

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.240, Allison & Busby

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• Huh? Oh you have a hidden agenda, do you?" She laughed. His straight-faced humor always surprised her. "You promised me you didn't." "There is nothing hidden about it," he replied. My objective is obvious. I've decided I'd rather have you describe me as 'sweet' than a 'slagging pain in the tailset.'" "Really?" "Well..." he looked up from the bag. "Maybe not in public." "I might be able to confine myself to saying it in private, if you gave me a reason." Taya met his eyes, and he blushed.

  Dru Pagliassotti

  Pain, Eye, Bags

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• You are a sweet man." -"God, there it is." He flopped back on the bed, as if shot through the heart. "Repeat that to anyone, and I will have you brought up on charges of slander." "I wouldn't dream of telling a soul.

  Tessa Dare

  Dream, Heart, Men

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.299, Ballantine Books

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• Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark,some like them light. Some like them in the park,late at night. Some like them fickle,some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you

  Ring Lardner

  Dark, Night, Light

  Ring Lardner (2013). “Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings”, p.702, Library of America

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• He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Kissing, Snakes, Stolen

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.232, Hachette UK

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• Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.

  Justin Cronin

  Running, Baby, Knitting

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.436, Ballantine Books

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• We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (“The Thing”)

  Richard Matheson

  Running, Struggle, Rainbow

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• Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave the world. I was still in it, barely, and as I looked up from the ashes, everything around me seemed so sweet and so beautiful. The trees. The stars. The moon. I was alive -- and I was glad I was.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Stars, Moon

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy Complete Series”, p.758, Penguin UK

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• I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Years, Vision, Shadow

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.141

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• Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

  William Shakespeare

  Enough, Twelfth Night Important

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Flower, Dies

  Sonnet 94

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• I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

  Joanne Harris

  Dream, Temptation, Comfort

  Joanne Harris (1999). “Chocolat”, Chivers

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• Nikki "Brandon's never hurt anyone. He's competely sweet and adorable." I choked a little on the sip of sparkling water I'k just swallowed. If Brandon was sweet and adorable, I was Satan's bride.

  Meg Cabot

  Hurt, Adorable, Water

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• Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Winter, Weather

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. 1

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• There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Running, Hurt, Goal

  Elizabeth Chandler (1999). “I Do”, Bantam Books for Young Readers

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• It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -

  Emily Dickinson

  Loneliness, Fate, Dark

  Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). “Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.38, Heinemann

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• Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Men, Yield, Pressure

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• So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.

  Gwen Cooper

  Cute, Strong, Thinking

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• The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.

  Brennan Manning

  Lying, Mean, Pride

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.18, Multnomah

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• There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pain, Real, Lying

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1384, Dell

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• I wish I were stronger and more secure in myself so that I could really spend my life with a guy like Lenny. Because he has a different kind of strength than Joshie. He has the strength of his sweet tuna arms. He has the strength of putting his nose in my hair and calling it home. He has the strength to cry when I go down on him. Who IS Lenny? Who DOES that? Who will ever open up to me like that again? No one. Because it's too dangerous. Lenny is a dangerous man. Joshie is more powerful, but Lenny is much more dangerous.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Powerful, Home, Men

  "Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel". Book by Gary Shteyngart, July 27, 2010.

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• Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. “You could hold me now.” It was almost his undoing. “Ah baby.

  Maya Banks

  Baby, Lakes, Negative

  Maya Banks (2012). “Maya Banks KGI”, p.101, Penguin

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• Sweet mother of chaos," he breathed. "Rachel, you are indeed one of us. Have your time in the sun. You're worth the extra wait.

  Kim Harrison

  Mother, Waiting, Sun

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• 'Dear Mr. Argeneau,'" she began. " 'I haven't read Love Bites, One, but I will, I guarantee it. I just finished Love Bites, Two, and thought it was wonderful. Etienne was so sweet and funny and sexy that I fell in love with him even as Rachel did. He's my dream man.'" Kate paused and glanced up expectantly. "What would you say to those letters?" That was easy enough. "Etienne is taken." -Kate and Lucern

  Lynsay Sands

  Sexy, Dream, Taken

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• I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

  Roger Zelazny

  Good Night, Hands, Thrones

  Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon”

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