Bigs Quotes - Page 12

• It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

  Anne Ursu

  Talking, White, Perfect

  Anne Ursu (2011). “Breadcrumbs”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?

  David Levithan

  Dad, Needs, Want

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.117, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

  Glen Cook

  Suffering, Spirit

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party tomorrow night, one of those all-out birthday bashes that girls like. Want to go?" ---------------------------------------- "No. Sorry." "Since it's a catered thing, at a restaurant, I'll pick you up at- what did you say?" "I'm sorry. I can't do it." ---------------------------------------- "You're busy?" "I just can't do it," I said.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Girl, Sorry, Party

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• Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

  Cecelia Ahern

  Wise, Secret, Age

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps, they'll be at your ankles one day, big as they are - not the whelps, the breasts. The whelps will be in your hair - no, not the shiny hair on your head, well, yes, that hair, but only as a manner of speech.

  Steven Erikson

  Hair, Waiting, One Day

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• Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said, his voice low and intense as if he was making a promise."Maybe we should send you to join him." "You know the rules," the woman whispered. "Don't shoot the messenger." Nick interrupted, leaning down to speak in her ear. "Do they say 'Don't cut the messenger in half with your great big sword'?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Cutting, Gun, Night

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love. And then some git brought me back to life

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Struggle, Laughing, Joy

  Yahtzee Croshaw (2008). “Mogworld”, p.14, Dark Horse Comics

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• His heart was simply to big for his body.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Heart, Body

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• I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

  Rodman Philbrick

  Heart, Body, Medical

  Rodman Philbrick (2013). “Freak The Mighty”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as...

  Robert Rankin

  Real, Perfect, Wish

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• I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.

  Ned Vizzini

  Long, People, Bed

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• It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.

  Ned Vizzini

  Thinking, Brain, Want

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• I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.

  Ilona Andrews

  Coffee, Generosity, Giving

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.146, Penguin

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• Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.

  Tove Jansson

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominpappa at Sea”, p.37, Macmillan

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• You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!

  Rachel Vincent

  Thinking, Filing Cabinet, Arrows

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.148, MIRA

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• The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers." "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony to make threats over the phone?" To give Powers his fair due, he got over his shock within a split second. “Try it, asshole. I dare you. My lawyers will have you for lunch.” He clicked off again. I did what any red-blooded American male would do. I called my big, ex-cop ex-boyfriend.

  Josh Lanyon

  Ex Boyfriend, Phones, Voice

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• One afternoon a girl walked by in a bikini and my cousin Janet scoffed, “Look at the hips on her.” I panicked. What about the hips? Were they too big? Too small? What were my hips? I didn’t know hips could be a problem. I thought there was just fat or skinny. This was how I found out that there are an infinite number of things that can be “incorrect” on a woman’s body.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Cousin, Numbers

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• No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Pain, Loss

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .

  E. M. Forster

  Passion, Sky, Space

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• Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him. To wrap around his big, warm, waist in a silent promise of acceptance and comfort. Edward's shielding arms had become restraints.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Acceptance, Promise, Comfort

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• My money's on the big Indian,' someone was saying. I peeked up to see that Tyler, Mike, Austin and Ben had there heads bent together, deep in conversation. 'Yeah,' Mike whispered. 'Did you see the size of that Jacob kid? I think he could take Cullen down.' Mike seemed pleased by the idea.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• I turned over, and those big hands got to work on my back. I stifled a whimper in the pillow, because Marco's idea of a massage bore no resemblance whatsoever to the relaxing spa variety. There was no lavender oil, no soothing music, no hot towels. Just an all-out assault on cramped muscles, until they cowered in surrender and turned to Jell-O.

  Karen Chance

  Hands, Ideas, Oil

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1832, Penguin

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• Marriage is a big word for all guys,” Shane said. “You know that. It’s kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.

  Rachel Caine

  Guy, Trying, Allergies

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• It's not big," Veck said, "but it's flawless. That was important to me. I wanted to give you something...flawless

  J.R. Ward

  Giving, Important, Flawless

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.337, Penguin

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