World Quotes - Page 40

• He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ashes, Whole, Whole World

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• I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liars, Should Have, Punishment

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

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• There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

  Robin Hobb

  Night, Promise, Bed

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.42, Spectra

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• What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Childhood, Miracle, Wonder

  "Autobiography". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1936.

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• Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Reading, Doors

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• ...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

  Stephen King

  Needs, Cadre, Smartass

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.472, Simon and Schuster

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• The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

  Virginia Woolf

  Block, Fall, Names

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Waves”, p.109, Booklassic

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• I relaxed. “I would imagine in your world, girls are much different than here in the real world. I’m sure if you spent some time with the everyday girl, you would find I am not unique.” He grinned at me. “The everyday girl is who writes me fan mail and buys out my concerts. They are the girls who yell my name and run after me like crazed animals. You’ve not even tried to sneak into my room and squirt your perfume on my pillow.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Running, Real

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• I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-" "He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Missing, Ashes, Care

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a paycheck, certainly; not an idea, even; and not an escape. Actually, it is the opposite of an escape; it is a way back in, a way to enter and make sense of a world that occasionally seems harsh and terrible and mystifying. (From the "Author's Note" at the end).

  Lauren Oliver

  Writing, Opposites, Ideas

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• I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Objectivity, Sea

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• That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

  John Green

  Team, Grace, Roaring

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.115, Penguin

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• When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

  Mark Nepo

  Wiggling, Different, Looks

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Doe

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

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• So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.

  Markus Zusak

  Wall, Other Worlds, People

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.58, Scholastic Inc.

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• When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

  Arundhati Roy

  Song, Skins, Radio

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.44, Penguin Books India

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• We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, Hate, War

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.135, Random House

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• Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.

  Dan Wells

  Impossible Things, Natural, Impossible

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

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• Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

  Neal Shusterman

  Book, School, Average

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• When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Light, Air, Water

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• I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

  Bram Stoker

  Feelings, Empty, Importance

  Bram Stoker (2015). “Dracula”, p.67, Booklassic

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• You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Miracle, Intrusion, Said

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.60, Penguin

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• At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

  Anais Nin

  Suicide, June, Imagination

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• He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.

  Ken Kesey

  Trying, Acting, Way

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.61, Hamilton Books

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• To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mind, Friendly, Primitive

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.49, Bertrand Russell

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