Doe Quotes - Page 33

• Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist—I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Fighting

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.117, Macmillan

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• Another Thing I'm Sick of Hearing: If I started that gay rights group, I must be gay. So if i start an animal rights group, what does that make me? A giraffe?

  James Howe

  Gay, Animal, Rights

  James Howe (2012). “Addie on the Inside”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• What does it feel like to be infected?" "I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe, can't breathe. His skin smells like smoke from a wood fire, like soap, like heaven. I imagine tasting his skin; I imagine biting his lips. "I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.

  Lauren Oliver

  Smell, Fire, Heaven

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• What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Care, Handle

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• Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’ ‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. ‘And knife-throwing just came up somehow.’ ‘As it so often does,’ I say, a small smile inching across my face.

  Veronica Roth

  Wall, Knives, Looks

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Lying, Men, Sick

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• Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Thinking, Nobody Knows, Know How

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.34, Scholastic UK

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• We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden

  Catherine Fisher

  Artist, Past, Men

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• History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona

  Alison Goodman

  Struggle, Suffering, Care

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• Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek. Beloved boy, so willful and brooding, your sacrifice will have enriched not my life but my death. ... Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Dark, Sacrifice, Boys

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• Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

  Alan Watts

  Circles, Expectations, Survival

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• If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.

  Stephen Hawking

  Way, Action, Impossible

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• I have seen what comes of being patient," Amanda said with a boding look. "And I have no opinion of it." "What does come of it?" Inquired Sir Gareth. "Nothing!

  Georgette Heyer

  Looks, Opinion, Patient

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• When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Inspiration, Warrior

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• ...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)

  C. S. Lewis

  Bullying, Cheating, Hurt

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• Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.

  Franny Billingsley

  Names, Rose, Battle

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.105, A&C Black

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• Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Strong, Spring, Winter

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.180, Macmillan

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• The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

  John Green

  Names, World, Said

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.131, Penguin

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• Little-boy love...the cleanest pain I've ever known. Love without desire, conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once. Where does it go? Why, in all their experiments, did the Magi never try to capture that purity in a bottle? Perhaps they couldn't.

  Christopher Moore

  Pain, Heart, Boys

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• I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.

  Kerry Greenwood

  Concealing

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• I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Thinking, Alcohol

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Facts, Surrender, Given

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• And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

  Jane Austen

  Balls, Lessons, Dignity

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.1902, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.

  Veronica Roth

  Body, Shapes, Mold

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may have an idea, but you cant be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings. Is it a stand-in ―a symbol for another idea? Does it fit into a larger, more hidden, metaphor? ...I hated poetry until someone showed me how to appreciate it. He told me to see poetry as a puzzle. Its up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

  Jay Asher

  Talking, Ideas, Appreciate

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