World Quotes - Page 28

• As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

  Jack Ketchum

  Bad Jokes, Punchlines, Jokes

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• My love has eyes blue as the sky. Her warm, bright smile makes me want to try To give her the world, And when she's curled Up in my arms where I can feel her touch, I realize again that I love her so much. My world has turned from black to white. Kissing in starlight, basking in sunlight, dancing at midnight.' ~John's poem for Belle

  Julia Quinn

  Eye, Kissing, Blue

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• The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.

  John Green

  Dark, Order, Wizards

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.145, A&C Black

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• ...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

  Laini Taylor

  Wings, Different, Hiding

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• the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

  Daniel Handler

  Powerful, Our World, Doe

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• The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.

  Rick Riordan

  May, Fixing, Needs

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• An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

  Byron Katie

  Mind, Suffering, Katie

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2011

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• I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Mind, Want

  Howard Gardner (2006). “The Development and Education of the Mind: The Selected Works of Howard Gardner”, p.166, Routledge

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• Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Children, Book

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• I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.

  Wilkie Collins

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.176, e-artnow sro

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• That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Dream, Here And There, Different

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• There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

  Dru Pagliassotti

  Past, Men, Thinking

  Dru Pagliassotti (2017). “Clockwork Heart”, p.172, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

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• How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Hands, Knowing

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.136, Penguin

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• All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.

  Sean Covey

  Respect, Past, Two

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.

  Kami Garcia

  Beautiful, Chaos, Destruction

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• I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

  Deborah Harkness

  Views, Magic, Important

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Giving Up, Choices, Trying

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• You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Corn, Next, Moments

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.116, Macmillan

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• Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

  Warren Ellis

  Magic, Cheat, Code

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• One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Littles, Spheres, Life Is

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• I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm used to it ... I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -

  Leila Aboulela

  Moving, Ceilings, Routine

  Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As far as I can see, in this world, you’re a fool for not using whatever gifts you’re given. It’s not as though you lied or cheated or stole to get Howard Marlowe as your father. That’s who he is; that’s who you are. You got dealt a bad card when you were bitten—so use one of the better cards you have in your hand to make up for it.

  Claudia Gray

  Father, Hands, Cards

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• Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Want, Contemplation, Ought

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• [W]hen Ben was kissing me, the whole world retreated. I felt things I'd never felt before, in places I never knew were connected. But I was pretty sure that whatever was buzzing against my thigh was not normal. For one thing, it was ringing. Ben dragged his mouth away from mine and mumbled a curse that was a little shocking and kind of hot. "Ignore it," he said. That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight, I didn't want it to be Verizon Wireless.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Running, Home, Kissing

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• He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Summer, Breathe

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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