Towns Quotes - Page 15

• Each time I see the Upside-Down Man Standing in the water, I look at him and start to laugh, Although I shouldn't oughtter. For maybe in another world Another time Another town, Maybe HE is right side up And I am upside down

  Shel Silverstein

  Men, Water, Laughing

  Shel Silverstein, “Reflection”

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• Birds are flyin' south for winter. Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north, Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin', Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth. He says, "It's not that I like ice Or freezin' winds and snowy ground. It's just sometimes it's kind of nice To be the only bird in town.

  Shel Silverstein

  Nice, Winter, Wind

  Shel Silverstein, “Weird-Bird”

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• Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.

  Rick Riordan

  Queens, Warrior, Being The Best

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• A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down on one knee. Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle; the whole town came and our mammas cried. And you said "I do.", and I did, too. Take me home where we met so many years before; we'll rock our babies on the very front porch. After all this time, you and I. And I'll be eighty-seven you'll be eighty-nine, I'll still look at you like the stars that shine. In the sky. Oh, my my my.

  Taylor Swift

  True Love, Baby, Stars

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• There were two kinds of people in our town. The stupid, and the stuck.

  Kami Garcia

  Stupid, Two, People

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• Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth.

  Markus Zusak

  Home, Sky, Ashes

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.13, RH Childrens Books

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• We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you’re going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse. —Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala

  Eric Kripke

  Girl, Horse, Sunset

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• Shane talking to Claire - "In this whole screwed up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," He whispered. "I love you, Claire

  Rachel Caine

  Love You, Talking, Shane

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• Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

  Richard Peck

  Thinking, Cities, Small Town

  Richard Peck (2000). “A Year Down Yonder”, Dial

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• You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.

  Richelle Mead

  Keys, Eyebrows, Pockets

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• and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Character, Dark

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• He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets.

  Warren Ellis

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• After almost exactly three hours, we rolled into a small hole of a town that had one traffic light and a resturant simply marked DINER. There hadn't been any traffic on the road for over an hour, though, which was really the most important thing. We hadn't been followed. Sydney drove us to a building with a sign that read MOTEL. Apparently this town liked to stick to the basics when it came to names. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually just called TOWN.

  Richelle Mead

  Light, Names, Important

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her." Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Thinking, Clothes

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me.

  Maureen Johnson

  Breakup, Rainbow, Guy

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• I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

  Taylor Swift

  Shining, Empty, Fireworks

  Song: Dear John, Album: Speak Now, 2010

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• I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

  John Green

  Years, Who Cares, Paper

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.58, A&C Black

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• Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.

  Rachel Caine

  Kids, Cutting, Kind

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.101, Allison & Busby

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• Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said wisely. “In the middle of this town, you’d have a dozen people dead every time the full moon came around. What’s going on?” “A dozen people are dying every time the full moon comes around.

  Jim Butcher

  Moon, People, Dying

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.46, Penguin

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• Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Father, Boys

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and bleeding in the car, and Cain unconscious in the trunk. No wonder I was anxious to get back to Toronto. Spend too much time around these guys and you become a little too nonchalent about blood-soaked clothes and bodies in the trunk

  Kelley Armstrong

  Blood, Clothes, Car

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• Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time.

  Jay Asher

  Letting Go, Hands, Mountain

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.79, Penguin

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• Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

  William Shakespeare

  Fields, Midsummer, Goblin

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.121, Callisto Media Inc

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• My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can't make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness.

  Sarah Dessen

  Distance, Night, Space

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.146, Penguin

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