Doe Quotes - Page 27

• Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, I've Learned, Fantastic

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• Hope does not leave without being given permission.

  Rick Riordan

  Inspirational, Life, Permission

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.1096, Penguin UK

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• She looks at me. She does. She.

  Patrick Ness

  Looks, Look At Me

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• You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Morning, Grief, Forever

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.348, Macmillan

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• Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Beautiful, Girl, Hands

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.148, Scholastic Inc.

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• Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

  Agatha Christie

  Hands, Clothes, Life And Death

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• The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Sorrow

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Two, People, Different

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• I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Quoted in Shea and Artigas 194)

  Galileo Galilei

  Christian, Moving, Heart

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• You know," I said, holding my ground. "I gotta tell you. The goatee thing? Yeah, way over. And you know a little jewelry really does go a long way. Just something you might want to consider. I'm actually glad you stopped by, because I have a couple things I've been meaning to say to you. Number one, about your wife? Yeah, she's a skank. And number two, you know that whole thing where you killed Jesse and then buried his remains out back there? Yeah, way un-cool.

  Meg Cabot

  Couple, Two, Numbers

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• I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Religious, Fashion, Reading

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Law, Doors

  Franz Kafka (1970). “The Trial”

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• That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Thinking, Reason

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• Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said. "Okay." "One, are you sitting down?" "Yes." "Two, are you mentally stable?" "More than you'll ever be." Well, that was uncalled for. "And three, how do you spell schizophrenia?" "What does that have to do with anything?" "Nothing. I just wanted to see if you'd tell me.

  Darynda Jones

  Two, Sitting Down, Three

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined. True love never has just one face, does it? It must always have two, or it isn't true love at all.

  Cameron Dokey

  Grief, Two, Different Experiences

  Cameron Dokey (2011). “Belle: A Retelling of "Beauty and the Beast"”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Distance, Thinking, Looks

  Cormac McCarthy (1999). “Cities of the plain”, Vintage

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• A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Army, Fire

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• Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.

  Dean Young

  Dream, Writing, Sleep

  Dean Young (2010). “The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction”, Graywolf Press

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• Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.

  Melina Marchetta

  Feelings, May, Want

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.39, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• One does not need to lock up that which is not dangerous.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Needs, Locks, Dangerous

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.268, Macmillan

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• I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Practice, Waiting, Why Not

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Stars, Differences, All Alone

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• Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.

  Dean Koontz

  Reality, Self, Sea

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• tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

  David Levithan

  Ocean, Thinking, World

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• It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life

  Nora Roberts

  Passion, Men, Giving

  Nora Roberts (2015). “Summer Desserts”, p.91, Harlequin

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