Thoughtful Quotes - Page 32

• Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.

  Kristin Cashore

  Girl, Baby, Husband

  Kristin Cashore (2008). “Graceling”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Crazy, People, Black

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Emo, Creative, Feng Shui

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.154, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Book, Years, White

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• She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Library, Answers

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• Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ideas, Music Is, Prose

  Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.17, Library of America

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• Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person was who said this was okay. After spending all that money on a bachelorette weekend, a shower, and often a flight across the country, they expect you to go to Williams Sonoma or Pottery Barn and do research? Then they send you a thank-you note applauding you for such a thoughtful gift. They're the one who picked it out!

  Chelsea Handler

  Country, Weekend, Shopping

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• Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.

  Patrick Ness

  Dad, Blow, Air

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Ideas, Sorrow

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• The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

  Terence McKenna

  Race

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• But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Morning, Soul, Ghost

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.

  Susan Cain

  Book, Play, People

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.

  Kristin Cashore

  Wise, Fall, Sitting

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.165, Penguin

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• I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It's something we have in our power to do. It reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Doubt, Groups, Citizens

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• In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

  Paul Tillich

  Honesty, Humble, Elements

  Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Selfish, Reality

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• The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Rain, Light, Color

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• Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, World, Tests

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.424, Delphi Classics

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• THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Believe, Love You

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• Well, prepare yourself. I am all kinds of thoughtful this week. I brought you something else.

  J. Lynn

  Kind, Week, Wells

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.23, HarperCollins UK

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• Bright star,” Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. “Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.”.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Eye, Remember

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Great Expectations, Very Good

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.149

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• The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Love Is, People

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Mind

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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• There are lives to brighten. There are hearts to touch. There are souls to save.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Soul

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