Dare Quotes - Page 35

• For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Cutting, Loss

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

  Euripides

  Hero, Loyal, Glory

  Euripides (2006). “Medea”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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• My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself - not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. So, better and worse, I went on, till I came to a little clearing in the forest.

  George MacDonald

  Pain, Lying, Tired

  George MacDonald (1858). “Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women”, p.92

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• The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?” “She,” corrected his wife. “As if any child of mine would dare be a boy.” It was a long-standing argument. “Boy,” replied Conall. “Any child as difficult as this one has been from the start must, perforce, be male.” Alexia snorted. “As if my daughter would be calm and biddable.” Conall grinned, catching one of her hands and bringing it in for a kiss, all prickly whiskers and soft lips. “Very good point, wife. Very good point.

  Gail Carriger

  Daughter, Children, Kissing

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• Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living.

  Henri Nouwen

  Believe, Mean, Risk

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• Curran gave me a flat look. "I can always drive to a burger joint instead." "Oh, so you'd throw a burger down my throat and expect making out in the back seat?" He grinned. "We can do it in the front seat instead, if you prefer. Or on the hood of the car." "I'm not doing it on the hood of the car." "Is that a dare?" Why me?

  Ilona Andrews

  Car, Looks, Burgers

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• We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

  Alain de Botton

  Museums, Secular Society, Ideas

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• Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead. "Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it." As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Sleep, Eye, Hair

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• I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Half, Fool

  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.52, Bantam

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• Do ye dare to draw arms against the justice of God?" snapped the tubby little judge. Jamie drew the sword completely, with a flash of steel, then thrust it point-first into the ground, leaving the hilt quivering with the force of the blow. "I draw it in defense of this women, and the truth," he said "If any here be against those two they'll answer to me, and then God, in that order.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Blow, Justice Of God, Order

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.618, Delacorte Press

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• Danger followed in his wake . . . followed, because it wouldn’t dare get in his way.

  Larissa Ione

  Way, Danger

  Larissa Ione (2011). “Pleasure Unbound: Number 1 in series”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Gold, Immortality

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• what red lips you have," he said in her ear. Did she dare say it? "All the better to kiss you with, my dear," she replied. And then their lips met.

  Annette Curtis Klause

  Kissing, Ears, Red

  Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.51, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• …but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

  Jane Austen

  People

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.174

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• But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

  Howard Zinn

  Powerful, Lying, Historical

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.162, Beacon Press

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• And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Brother, Children, Sorry

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Distance, Taken, Thinking

  "Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, vol. 1". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Indiana University Press, Journals VII 1A 363, p. 40, 1967.

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• Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.

  Tom Stoppard

  Night, Demand, Satisfaction

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sports, Art, Hate

  Frankenstein ch. 10 (1818)

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• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And how dare you! I will take no further questions.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  School, Rocks, Twenties

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• It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

  Sigrid Undset

  Thinking, Good Things, Ifs

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• Lord Macon deposited his wife into a chair and then knelt next to her, clutching one of her hands. "Tell me truthfully - how are you feeling?" Alexia took a breath. "Truthfully? I sometimes wonder if I, like Madame Lefoux, should affect masculine dress." "Gracious me, why?" "You mean aside from the issue of greater mobility?" "My love, I don't think that's currently the result of your clothing." "Indeed, I mean after the baby." "I still don't see why should want to." "Oh no? I dare you to spend a week in a corset, long skirts and a bustle." "How do you know I haven't?

  Gail Carriger

  Baby, Mean, Thinking

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• Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But that’s a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason.

  Tammara Webber

  Lying, Fall, Loss

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.806, Tammara Webber

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• Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Eye, Tangled, Embrace

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.730, Book House

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• Don’t you do that.” She turned away from the mirror, toward him. “Don’t you dare make a joke. It took a great deal of courage to say what I did. And you don’t have to speak a word in return, but I will insist you be man enough to take it. I won’t have you making light of my feelings, or making light of yourself—as if you’re not worthy of them. Because you are worthy, Colin. You’re a generous, good-hearted person, and you deserve to be loved. Deeply, truly, well, and often

  Tessa Dare

  Men, Mirrors, Light

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