Whole World Quotes - Page 28

• I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Tonight, Boots

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Wall, Air, House

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• He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, "If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates." But he could not find it out.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Queens, Snow, World

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “Andersen’s Fairy Tales”, p.85, Hans Christian Andersen

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• I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.

  Daniel Handler

  Hair, Smell, People

  "The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), April 15, 2000.

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• In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Suicide, Hate, Reality

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• He’s my whole world.” “Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  World, Whole

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

  Alice Hoffman

  Senior, Stars, Real

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.56, Penguin Group

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• The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Inspiration, Healing

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The last thing I expected was to feel his arms sliding arounds me, to sense the whole world turning upside down as Zach dipped me in the middle of the foyer and pressed his lips to mine. Then he smiled that smile I'd come to know. "I always finish what I start.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Voice, Cracks

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• The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Miracle, Ordinary, World

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• When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

  Mitch Albom

  Baby, Knowing, Hands

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Essence, World

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• My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that the buildings were still in place, the streets were still full of cars running, full of people who were walking, seemingly ignoring that my whole world has just disappeared." (rough translation)

  Marc Levy

  Mother, Running, Years

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• My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go. Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?

  Eileen Wilks

  Hurt, Feelings, Let It Go

  Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.172, Penguin

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• Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.

  Saul Bellow

  Children, People, World

  Saul Bellow (1984). “The Adventures of Augie March”

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• Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn’t have to live with it anymore—the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Relief, Frost

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• Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Love Is, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.52, Macmillan

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• How-how can we make it against the whole world?

  Tabitha Suzuma

  World, Whole

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Book, Perception

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• But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

  Lauren Oliver

  Doe, World, Turns

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Change, Hope

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• ...One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

  Christopher Moore

  Guy, Vampire, Dollars

  Christopher Moore (2009). “You Suck”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Husband, Men, Idols

  Jane Eyre ch. 24 (1847)

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• I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.

  Lois Lowry

  Mean, World, Generations

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Country, Jobs, Believe

  "Amazing Spider-Man". Comics by J. Michael Straczynski,

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