Easier Quotes - Page 8

• It would’ve been easier to die. It’s not that I want to be dead now. I don’t. I have a lot in my life that I get satisfaction from, that I love. But some days, especially in the beginning, it was so hard. And I couldn’t help but think that it would’ve been so much simpler to go with the rest of them. But you—you asked me to stay. You begged me to stay. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow.

  Gayle Forman

  Thinking, Promise, Want

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.94, Penguin

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• Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wall, Nice, Thinking

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• The bathroom door burst open, and Molly came trotting out. The left half of her body had been shaved almost down to the skin. The right half was as shaggy as before. John emerged after her, brushing a layer of dog hair off his clothes. John said, "Well, that's done... It was Molly's idea. She wants to look like two different dogs when she's coming and going. She thinks it will make it easier for her to steal food... That's one complicated dog, Dave. Have you started on the bomb?

  David Wong

  Dog, Thinking, Hair

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.444, Titan Books

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• The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you don't hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like zen.~ Japhy

  Jack Kerouac

  Cute, Thinking, Climbing

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to Queen Islanzadí, and a hundred different manners in which to greet those around you, if it’s not better to just remain quiet.” “With all your customs,” Eragon risked saying, “it seems as though you’ve only made it easier to offend people.” A smile flickered across her lips. “Perhaps.

  Christopher Paolini

  Queens, People, Different

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.799, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.

  Willa Cather

  People, Feelings, Going Away

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1031, eBookIt.com

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• Who is he when he isn't Dauntless, isn't an instructor, isn't Four, isn't anything in particular? Whoever he is, I like him. It's easier to admit that to myself now, in the dark, after all that just happened. He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.

  Veronica Roth

  Sweet, Strong, Smart

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• It's easier to die if others around you are dying.

  Annie Proulx

  Dying, Dies, Ifs

  Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Depressing, Needs, Half

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2011). “The Man of My Dreams”, p.114, Random House

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• It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Witch, Outlander, Deals

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• Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Blood, Hands, Secret

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.466, Penguin

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• Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

  David Eddings

  Hate, Forgiving, Rising

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• How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Alec, waving his arms.

  Norton Juster

  Real, Eye, Arms

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• It'd be better if he were easier to hate.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Ifs

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.185, Scholastic Inc.

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• Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Emotion, Related

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• If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Connections, Use

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.121, Penguin

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• It would be so much easier if there were a secret password, or handshake. Netherworld, open sesame! Yeah, that didn't work, either.

  Rachel Vincent

  Secret, Would Be, Yeah

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “My Soul to Save”, p.201, Harlequin

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• That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

  David Foster Wallace

  People, Addiction, Boring

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• Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Would Be, Publishing

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• Taylor clapped three times for attention. "Ladies! Ladies! My stars! That's enough. Now. We all know Miss Arkansas's girls are fake, Miss Ohio's easier than making cereal, and Miss Montana's dress is something my blind meemaw would wear to bingo night." - "Beauty Queens

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Stars, Queens

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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• Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a little toward Luther. "Is this the part where I faint in fear?" Luther bit his lip. "He might also accept falling to your knees and holding your hands in humble supplication. Makes it easier for him to slap the cuffs on.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fall, Humble, Glasses

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.71, Penguin

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• Killing people was far easier than making polite chitchat.

  Jennifer Estep

  People, Killing, Polite

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Tangled Threads”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Inmates, Follow Me, Ifs

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• ...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, People, World

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