Edges Quotes - Page 16

• His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Want, Taste, Towns

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• To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

  Etgar Keret

  Fall, Character, Destiny

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• Durzo pulled out a gold Gunder from his pouch. Crowns Roth wins, Castles I lose. He flipped the coin. It bounced on the table and, impossibly, landed on edge. There´s always another choice, Kylar said.

  Brent Weeks

  Winning, Choices, Gold

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.296, Hachette UK

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• But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Mean, Past

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• After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.

  Rachel Joyce

  Two, Drink, Felt

  Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.144, Random House

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• Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

  Gore Vidal

  Dust, Balance, Reason

  Gore Vidal (1987). “Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.

  Laura Moriarty

  Cutting, Trying, Insult

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• By the Angel, Bridget’s depressing,” said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk. Charlotte opened her mouth as if to object, and closed it again. “It’s all heartbreak, death and unrequited love.” “Well, that is what most songs are about,” said Will. “Requited love is nice, but it doesn’t make much of a ballad.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Depressing, Nice

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• At first I wasn’t all that tempted by him, but then he killed the spider. Which was a huge point in his favor.” “Absolutely. I love men who kill bugs.” “And then when I was freaking out and couldn’t breathe, he was so…gentle.” Zoe sighed and colored, remembering. “He was holding me, and talking to me in that voice…you know, sort of low and rough around the edges…” “All the Nolans sound like that,” Justine said reflectively. “Like they’ve got a mild case of bronchitis. Totally hot.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Men, Talking, Voice

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• The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Hunters, Gone

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 05, 2014

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• Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.

  Lauren Oliver

  Shining, Green, Vivid

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• Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.

  Markus Zusak

  Stress, Dark, Color

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• It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.

  Rick Bragg

  Men, Ice Cream, Dragons

  FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from Sep 20, 2016

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• I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Sick, Bed, Use

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• Strangely enough, it wasn’t Gabe who was haunting my thoughts, though. That job belonged to a pair of sinfully black eyes that had lost their edge when they studied me, turning as soft and sultry as silk.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Jobs, Eye, Black

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.

  Pittacus Lore

  Memories, Surprise, I've Learned

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• He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more." "That sounds excruciating.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Crazy, Feelings, Sound

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• If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Brain, Matter, Individual

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• Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.

  Tana French

  Couple, Cutting, Forever

  Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him. Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam. The first, that he fell, is too simple. The fourth, fear, we have tried and found useless. The fifth, nothing happened, is dull. The choice is between: he jumped or was pushed. And the difference between these is only an issue of whether the demons work from the inside out or from the outside in: the one theological question.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Simple, Two, Differences

  Robert Bringhurst (2010). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Random House

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• She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

  J. K. Rowling

  Feelings, Might, Cry

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Dream, Hair

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1819, Delphi Classics

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• You have a freckle here," he whispered, sweeping his tongue over a spot just under my jaw. "It drives me crazy every time you 're above me. I just want to do this..." The jentle draw of his mouth pushed me over the edge, and my knees tightened around his hips as i rocked against him.

  Tammara Webber

  Crazy, Mouths, Want

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• But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Paris

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely upon his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fall, Knives, Decision

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