Buried Quotes - Page 14

• Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Past, Years

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Religion, Jerry

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• Ye need her as she needs ye....and Inuyasha...DO NOT FORGET WHERE YE BURIED ME!

  Rumiko Takahashi

  Needs, Forget, Inuyasha

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• I hung my fingertips on his waistband, tugging him closer. Patch buried his face in the curve of my shoulder, his hands flexing over my back. He gave a low groan. "I love you," he murmured into my hair. "I'm happier right now than I ever remember being.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Love You, Curves, Hair

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

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• The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

  Frederick Buechner

  Self, Weather, World

  Frederick Buechner (1991). “Telling Secrets”, Harper San Francisco

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• He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Blood, Names

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• That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning.

  Lauren Oliver

  Forever, Goes On, Infinity

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.294, Hachette UK

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• I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you." Her face is buried in my neck. She nods. "I'll count the minutes until you do." she says.

  Pittacus Lore

  Promise, Lasts, Faces

  Pittacus Lore (2010). “I Am Number Four: (Lorien Legacies Book 1)”, p.257, Penguin UK

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• ...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.

  Josh Lanyon

  Jake, Looks, Cop

  Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

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• [Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. That must have been when he put the finger in my pocket.' [Morelli] 'Have you been drinking?

  Janet Evanovich

  Morning, Drinking, Grandma

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• You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

  Kelly Link

  Life, Firsts, Salvage

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

  Douglas Adams

  Grandmother, Order, Three

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection--the kind that never demands it of others.

  Martine Leavitt

  Children, Husband, Perfection

  Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.92, Highlights Press

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• The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cities, Sunrise, Watches

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.331, Random House

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• Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Generations, Fleeting, Duration

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• Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

  Mordecai Richler

  Monday, Two, Age

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• No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn…yeah, just another day in the life.

  Rachel Caine

  Another Day, Yeah, Reborn

  Rachel Caine (2009). “The Dead Girls' Dance”, p.38, Allison & Busby

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• There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Looks, Body, X Files

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• Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Writing, Islands

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

  Robert Cormier

  Mother, Sadness, Way

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.172, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.221

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• I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. "It was taped to the back of my dresser drawer. What do you think? Buried treasure? Secret passageway? Locked room where they keep crazy old Aunt Edna?" "It probaly unlocks another dresser," Tori said. "One they threw out fifty years ago." "Its tragic, being born without an imagination. Do they hold telethons for that?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Aunt, Thinking

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• ‎She didn't understand what it was like to be filled with a love so strong that it made your chest ache—a love you could only feel and not express. Keeping love buried was a lot like keeping anger pent up, I'd learned. It just ate you up inside until you wanted to scream or kick something.

  Richelle Mead

  Love, Strong, Scream

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.360, Penguin

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• The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Winter, Thinking

  'Adonais' (1821) preface

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• I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, "This is Beam Me Up." Then to my right. "And this is Scotty." Garret chuckled and buried his face in his hands. He asked.

  Darynda Jones

  Hands, Ovaries, Faces

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.278, Macmillan

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