Chapters Quotes - Page 21

• She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words? She said it audibly now, to the orange-lit room. "What good are the words?

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Feel Better, Orange

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.387, Random House

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• If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

  Michael Ende

  Thinking, Twenties, Stories

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• I’m a little worried about Edward… Can vampires go into shock? Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 7, p.129

  Stephenie Meyer

  Vampire, Dawn, Littles

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• I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Girl, Memories, Phrases

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• I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you look back and see another, earlier beginning, and an earlier one before that. Even if you start with "Chapter One: I Am Born, " you still have the problem of antecedents, of cause and effect.

  Hillary Jordan

  Thinking, Looks, Causes

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• All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Adventure, Lasts

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.429

  Stephenie Meyer

  Children, Sleep, Night

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• We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

  Barack Obama

  War, Responsibility, New Beginnings

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

  Peter O'Toole

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

  Max Muller

  Memories, Paradise, Pages

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  Harlan Coben

  Fall, Needs, May

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• I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Jobs, Men, Skills

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Interesting, Fortunate

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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• I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Reading, School

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• He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

  LaToya Jackson

  Legends, Brands, Brand New

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• Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

  Hugh Laurie

  Girl, Missing, Pages

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

  Jude Law

  Thinking, Feelings, Film

  "Jude Law: 'I was a great champion of the human spirit. I lost that for a time'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Time

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• Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.

  Alan Moore

  Fall, Character, Three

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2001.

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• People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

  Alan Moore

  Long, People, Answers

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• The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Orange, Giving

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• Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8

  Dean Koontz

  Humility, Self, Age

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.62, Bantam

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• Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don’t stop reading the book! If you do… then you never get to find out what happens next!

  Brian Falkner

  Book, Reading, Life Is Like

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• When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Marriage, Light

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.71, Macmillan

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• "Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Mother, Fear, Rain

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