Desperate Quotes - Page 18

• My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year. I don't care what anyone says, that wasn't my fault. when a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Years, Desperate Measures

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.19, Penguin

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• The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Crazy, Thoughtful, People

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love Is, Way, Desperate Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called upon a Gallagher Girl's weapon of last resort. I flirted

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Desperate Measures, Weapons

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• He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, Weakness, Matter

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.35, St. Martin's Press

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• I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.

  Suzanne Collins

  Arguing, Courses, Knows

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.169, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

  Anne Frank

  Silly, Sentimental, Helping

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.108, GENERAL PRESS

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• That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.

  Aimee Bender

  Mother, Air, Details

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• You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

  Lisa See

  May

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.128, Random House

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• I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success. Forcing him into these brutal encounters will a) make a dame sure he is a success, and b) all you to see evidence of that success with the added bonus of a cheering crowd. This means that sports are supported with an almost desperate enthusiasm. The football team gets catered dinners before a fame. Honor Society is lucky if it gets a cupcake. Academic success-forget it. That requires too much imagination. There's no scoreboard.

  Deb Caletti

  Sports, Football, Cheer

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• A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?" Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and soorte4d fruit toppings?" I dropped the empty can into the recycling bin and leaned against the kitchen peninsula, grinning like an idiot. "Two of the three. And I could probably scrounge up some strawberry jam, if you're desperate." "I'm never desperate," Tod said, only his voice hadn't come from my phone. I whirled around to see the reaper standing behind me, still holding his cell. "But for the record, I prefer apricot." "Yuck. Nobody likes apricot jam.

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Cells, Two

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• I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

  Amy Tan

  Secret, Wish, Amy

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• It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Running, Memories, Kissing

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• He frames my face with his hands as he says, "Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you to live for me." We kiss, as desperate as though we were drowning. When our lips part, Alec says, "Forgive me.

  Claudia Gray

  Kissing, Hands, Forgive Me

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• Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Prayer, Taken, Simple

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2007). “When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness”, p.33, Moody Publishers

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• We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better. Waiting for things to change. Waiting for that one person to finally notice us. We're all waiting. But we also need to realize that we all have the power to make those changes for ourselves.

  Susane Colasanti

  Change, Bored, Waiting

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.33, Penguin

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• No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Believe, Truth Is, Believe In Me

  Tennessee Williams (1986). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.80, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Mean, Men, Land

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.

  Arlene J. Chai

  Hate, Heart, Animal

  Arlene J. Chai (2010). “The Last Time I Saw Mother”, p.149, Ballantine Books

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• Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope To find some solace for your wild unrest.

  James Thomson

  Depth, Unrest, Woe

  James Thomson (2011). “The City of Dreadful Night”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

  Anais Nin

  Solitude, May, Moments

  "Collages" by Anais Nin, (p. 116), 1964.

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• My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.

  Lauren Oliver

  Distance, Kissing, Passionate

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• Hold onto me baby. I'm going to take care of you." The raspy need in his voice only made me more desperate.

  Abbi Glines

  Baby, Voice, Needs

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

  Arthur Golden

  Might, Like You, Ifs

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• What did Mira show your attacker last week? he asked, desperate to turn the attention away from himself now. Yakut shrugged. Only he can know. The girl has no knowledge of what her eyes reflect. Thank God for that. Niko hated to think of the education she might have just gotten otherwise.

  Tina St. John

  Girl, Eye, Thinking

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