Desperation Quotes - Page 14

• we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

  Roberto Bolano

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• Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Names, Medicine, Chinese

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined, I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me. But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Hurt, Boys

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, April 25, 2011.

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• The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

  Amanda Hocking

  Doing You, Favors, Wave

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.

  Libba Bray

  Silence, Wish, Meetings

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• Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

  Janette Rallison

  Running, Heart, Smell

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person--a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences--a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Fire, Light, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.132, Penguin

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• All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.

  John Green

  Men, May, Rich

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• aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

  David Levithan

  School, Thinking, Asking

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.

  Anne Rice

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1263, Ballantine Books

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• I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

  Sue Miller

  Thinking, Empathy, Kind

  Sue Miller (2014). “While I Was Gone: rejacketed”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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