Curse Quotes - Page 24

• The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first.

  Drake

  Past, Purses, Firsts

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• She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Light, Darkness, Kind

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• It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it. You couldn’t attempt to un-send it. Once you’d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you’d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Blessing, Giving

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.206, Random House

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• Kissing can ruin lives. Lips touch sometimes teeth clash. New hunger is born with a throb and caution falls away. A cursed girl with lips still moist from her first kiss might feel suddenly wild like a little monsoon. She might forget her curse just long enough to get careless and let it come true. She might kill everyone she loves.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Fall, Kissing

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes--they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.

  Ally Carter

  Couple, Fate, Hands

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• Percy Jackson," Hermes said, "because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you. You are in the hands of the Fates now. But you will never speak to me like that again. You have no idea how much I have sacrificed, how much—" His voice broke, and he shrank back to human size. "My son, my greatest pride . . . my poor May . . ." He sounded so devastated I didn't know what to say. One minute he was ready to vaporize us. Now he looked like he needed a hug.

  Rick Riordan

  Taken, Fate, Pride

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• All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Strong, Heart, Journey

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• Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.

  Gena Showalter

  Morning, Night, Punishment

  Gena Showalter (2012). “The Darkest Night”, p.15, Harlequin

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• ...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

  Ally Carter

  Fate, People, Break

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• Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is, young shade? Power. Power and choice. Monsters make choices. Monsters shape the world. Monsters force us to become stronger, smarter, better. They sift the weak from the strong and provide a forge for the steeling of souls. Even as we curse monsters, we admire them. Seek to become them, in some ways." Her eyes became distant. "There are far, far worse things to be than a monster.

  Jim Butcher

  Girl, Song, Strong

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• I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.

  David Mitchell

  Years, People, Broken

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.258, Random House

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• And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hands, staring down at his enemy's shell.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Hands, Skills

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• Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Curly Hair, Hair, Different

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.118, Dial Press

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• Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.

  William Shakespeare

  Destiny, Years, Black

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Othello”, p.140, Heinemann

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• A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Lying, Silence, Wake Up

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.73, Penguin

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• Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.

  George R. R. Martin

  Liars, Kissing, Kiss Me

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1874, Bantam

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• You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

  Stephen King

  Father, Writing, Kids

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So, if someone's changed overnight - by witch curse or poison apple or were-turtle - you have to show them what's good. You show them love. That works a surprising amount of the time.

  Anne Ursu

  Believe, Winning, Turtles

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• We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse we'de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don't laugh; they're bad news).

  Rick Riordan

  Mistake, Fire, Laughing

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• There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.

  David Gemmell

  Strong, Kings, Men

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• There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

  Thornton Wilder

  Self, Hatred, Needs

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• I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Worship, Willing

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

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• Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mother, Brother, Believe

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• Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

  Matthew Kelly

  World, Modern, Superficiality

  Matthew Kelly (2002). “Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose”, p.71, BookBaby

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• The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Islands, Smell

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.98, Scholastic UK

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