Cures Quotes - Page 37

• That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him.

  Lauren Oliver

  Promise, Tears, Skins

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.129, Hachette UK

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• Clara will break him to bridle,” Longmore said. “And if she can’t cure his wild ways, who knows? Maybe he’ll ride into a ditch or get run over by a post chaise, and she’ll be a young widow. Do try to look on the bright side.

  Loretta Chase

  Running, Trying, Looks

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• Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

  John Piper

  Sleep, Thinking, Bed

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• Oblivion cures the old wounds.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Old Wounds, Oblivion, Wounds

  "Memory and Oblivion". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

  Dan Abnett

  Moving, Fighting, People

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• I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Scott Westerfeld (2008). “Specials”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.

  Anais Nin

  People, Attention, Pay

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• I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.

  Dan Wells

  Race, Age, Saving

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.68, HarperCollins UK

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• Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Broken Heart, Trying, Together

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2184, Delphi Classics

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• It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Regret, Life Changing

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.38, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Men, People

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• Work could cure almost anything

  Ernest Hemingway

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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  Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Humanity

  "My Cancer Brings All the Crazies to the Yard" by Kevin Lankes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2014.

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• We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

  Harold Bloom

  Loneliness, Fire, Light

  Harold Bloom (2011). “The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life”, p.10, Yale University Press

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• With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

  Lauren Oliver

  Expectations, Language, Exhausting

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.

  Isaac Marion

  Lust, And Love, Want

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

  Henry Ford

  Long, Special, Looks

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.6, 谷月社

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• Love will break your heart,[...] but love can also mend it. Not many things in life are both the cause and the cure.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heart, Things In Life, Causes

  Lisa Kleypas (2013). “Crystal Cove”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Love Is, Escaping

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I’m not the Hana everyone told me I would be after my cure.

  Lauren Oliver

  Would Be

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• If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly.

  Lauren Oliver

  Disease, Imagine, My Family

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.730, Hachette UK

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• Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?

  Lauren DeStefano

  Children, Simple, Years

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.

  Seamus Heaney

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Believe

  Speech by the President of USA to the People of Derry, cain.ulst.ac.uk. November 30, 1995.

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• My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Thinking, Too Much

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.120, Faber & Faber

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• I watched as that kid died. In his last few seconds there was pure terror in his eyes. You can't do that. You can't do that to a person. I don't care what anybody tells me, I don't care how many people go crazy and die, I don't care if the whole shuck human race ends. Even if that was the only thing that had to happen to find the cure, I'd still be against it.

  James Dashner

  Crazy, Kids, Eye

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