Finals Quotes - Page 30

• Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

  Garth Nix

  Lessons, Dies, Sabriel

  Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.163, Hot Key Books

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• After finals and winter break...after I'm back to full strength, we'll go get Preston. Whether Mom and Abby and Joe and Townsend like it or not, we'll go get him. And then...' I trailed off. 'And then we'll finish this. Next semester, this thing ends.

  Ally Carter

  Mom, Winter, Abby

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• On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?

  Charles Dickens

  Pain, Hands, Years

  Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.121

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• What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.

  Junot Diaz

  Children, Husband, Father

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.164, Faber & Faber

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• Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. They will be looking for some sign that their battles have not been in vain. If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me…but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Giving, Battle

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• From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

  Neil Peart

  Journey

  "Rush – Prime Mover". Song by Neil Peart, 1987.

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• I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

  Clive Barker

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 19, 2013

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• It’s the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.

  Suzanne Collins

  Weed, Should Have, Tree

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.252, Scholastic Inc.

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• I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

  John Green

  Loss, Tragedy, Goes On

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• I may be older and wiser, I may have lived another life since then, but I know that when my time eventually comes, the memories of that day will be the final images that float through my mind. I still love her, you see, and I‟ve never removed my ring. In all these years I‟ve never felt the desire to do so.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Memories, Years, Mind

  Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity

  Isaac Asimov

  Infinity, Eternity, Ends

  Isaac Asimov (1979). “The Far Ends of Time and Earth”

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• I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

  Ian Mcewan

  Kindness, Thinking, Despair

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• A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.

  Holly Black

  Queens, Short Life, Men

  Holly Black (2002). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, Simon Pulse

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• Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.

  Frederick Buechner

  Powerful, Heart, Love Is

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• But the rest of Jace’s mind is watching the door slam behind her and seeing the final ruin of all his dreams. It was one thing to push it to this point. It is another to let go forever. Because he knows Clary, and if she goes now, she will not ever come back.

  Cassandra Clare

  Letting Go, Dream, Doors

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• Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mistake, Starting Over, Initials

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• His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

  Carl Jung

  Community, World, Retreat

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.625, Routledge

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• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Ideas, Goal

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.webexhibits.org. July 1880.

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• Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.

  Neil Gaiman

  Way, Sometimes, Said

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• Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Law, And Love

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• And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

  John Green

  Perfect, Upset, Leaving

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.572, Penguin

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• If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Government, Made, Has Beens

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• Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Color, White, Black

  "The Creator" by Dejan Stojanovic, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "Color," (p. 64), 2000.

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• And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen.

  Suzanne Collins

  Cutting, Dark, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.258, Scholastic Inc.

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• For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.

  Anais Nin

  Jobs, Artist, Issues

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