Bother Quotes - Page 7

• Sorry to bother you,” Bella said over the wailing. “But she wants her daddy.

  J.R. Ward

  Sorry, Zsadist, Daddy

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Father Mine: Zsadist and Bella's Story: A Black Dagger Brotherhood Novella”, p.93, Penguin

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• Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?" "No." "In that case . . . I hope you enjoy disappointment." We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel. "Why did you even bother?" I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable. "I don't know," he whispered.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Disappointment, Angel, Silence

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• Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Doe, Letters

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.29, Del Rey

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• Dimitri: "I also have a feeling your mother's going to have one ugly conversation with me." Rose: "You're about to go face down Strigoi, and my mother's the one you're scared of?" Dimitri: "She's a force to be reckoned with. Where do you think you got it from?" Rose: "It's a wonder you bother with me then." Dimitri: "You're worth it, believe me.

  Richelle Mead

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it.

  Diane Duane

  Voice, Clothes, Air

  Diane Duane (2003). “A Wizard Alone”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Humanity, Worship

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• It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Becoming, Clear, Turns

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.14, Penguin

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• It doesn’t bother you that your canine brethren are being paraded around show rings like slaves?” “My canine brethren?” I said. “I don’thave any canine brethren.” “How can you say that! You’re a werewolf.” “That’s right. I’m a werewolf, not a poodle. What makes you think I have any kinship with dogs?

  Carrie Vaughn

  Dog, Thinking, Make You Think

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• [The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice cabinet was full of Ben's toy trucks, and Jane couldn't spot a cookbook anywhere. This is the kitchen of a Thinker, she decided, and promised herself that she'd never bother with cooking, either.

  Jeanne Birdsall

  Ducks, Cooking, Kitchen

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• I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said. "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.

  William Goldman

  Girl, Worry, Doe

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.70, A&C Black

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• Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

  David Levithan

  Loneliness, Damage, Moments

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.60, Egmont UK

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• How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

  Neal Stephenson

  Dark, Canada

  Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.653, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.

  Rick Yancey

  Stupid, What Is Love, Tricks

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• You have no idea how much it bothers me to know that I was the man she meant to kill tonight and now I have to protect her.” – Ren “Yeah, well, she tried to kill me, too, and I got over it.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Ideas, Tonight

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• The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers us that we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.

  Susane Colasanti

  Perspective, Trying, Problem

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.112, Penguin

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• Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed.

  Philip Roth

  Blessed, Perfect, Answers

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.

  Roland Barthes

  Modern

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• Don't bother Me with promises. Vows are cheaply manufactured, come with no guarantees. Don't bother to say you love me. The word is indefinable. Joy to some, heartbreak to others, depending on circumstance. There is evidence that the emotion can make a person live longer, evidence it can kill you early. I think it's akin to a deadly disease. Or at least some exotic fever. Catch it, and you'd better, quick, swallow some medication to use as a weapon against the fire ravaging body and soul.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, Fire, Joy

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• Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don't scare me. Gauzy apparitions might prank your psyche or agitate your nightmares, but lacking flesh and blood they are powerless to hurt you-cannot hope to inflict the kind of damage that real, live people do.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Hurt, Real

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.

  Dr. Seuss

  Yawning, Names, Important

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• I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

  Jandy Nelson

  Grief, Clothes, People

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.19, Penguin

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• There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it

  Kathy Acker

  Book, Secret

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of.

  Holly Black

  Halloween, Swimming, Thinking

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Fashion, Past, Knowing Nothing

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• It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Doubt, Trying, Noise

  Tatiana de Rosnay (2012). “The House I Loved”, p.149, Macmillan

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