Block Quotes - Page 35

• Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

  Rob Thurman

  Half, World, Jersey

  Rob Thurman (2010). “Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.30, Penguin

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• I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.

  Melina Marchetta

  Two, Buttons, Junk

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Christian, Past, Choices

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• A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau

  Karl Pilkington

  Blood, Cake, Might

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• Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, you wanna get off. And the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going. Well, I can get off right now if I want to. Because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s still the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. Whenever I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve had enough.

  Marsha Norman

  Years, Bored, World

  "'night, Mother". www.imdb.com. September 5, 1986.

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• They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other.  Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished.

  Guillaume Musso

  Love, Years, People

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• He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Eye, Light, Feelings

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan

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• I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

  Derek Walcott

  Horse, Stars, Saws

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• If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

  Matthew Quick

  Stay Strong, Clouds, Trying

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Doe, Reason

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Life, Fun, Simple

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace it with was the image of being eaten by tiny clowns.

  David Wong

  Alive, Tiny, Facts

  David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.97, Macmillan

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• Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Interesting, Mind

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• You can plan for things, work towards them for years, and yet they never materialize. Or you can just happen to be in the right place at the right moment, and everything falls into place. If you want to believe in something like Fate, she's a capricious character. Sometimes she stand there blocking the doorway you were born to pass through, and sometimes she takes you by the hand and leads you through the minute you poke your nose out. And the stars gaze down and keep their counsel.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Stars, Believe, Fall

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2012). “Little Star: A Novel”, p.259, Macmillan

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• I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes." I heard the smile in his voice. "You want me bad.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Couple, Voice, Car

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.907, Simon and Schuster

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• Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze me. I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other's houseplants - these things amaze me.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Running, Children

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.250, Profile Books

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• I never thought I'd get to see Rome," Hazel said. "When I was alive, I mean for the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war." "Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFF's with Hitler?" Hazel stared at him like he was an alien. "BFF's?" "Never mind." "I'd love to see the Trevi Fountain," she said. "There's a fountain on every block," Leo grumbled. "Or the Spanish Steps," Hazel said. "Why would you come to Italy to see Spanosh steps?" Leo asked. "That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it?" "You're hopeless," Hazel complained. "So I've been told.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Mean, Bff

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• What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dream, Heart, Mind

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Hurt, People, Ends

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• Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. I am also convinced that love is the most important ingredient in the single 's search for meaning.

  Gary Chapman

  Love Is, Impact, Important

  "The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships".

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• Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Reflection, Mirrors, Long

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• The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the bodhichitta teachings, the only way to practice them fully, is to abide in the unconditional openness of the prajna, patiently cutting through all our tendencies to hang on.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Teaching, Cutting

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• Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

  Matt Haig

  Triggers, Cures, Writer's Block

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• I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

  Candace Bushnell

  Real, Thinking, Worry

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• The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

  Dan Brown

  Powerful, Eye, Men

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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