Get Away Quotes - Page 8

• ... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

  Jane Green

  Waiting, Abuse, Domestic Violence

  Jane Green (2002). “Bookends: A Novel”, p.188, Broadway Books

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• The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Jobs, Fall

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• When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Moving, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Feb 14, 2012

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• When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

  Dashiell Hammett

  Men, Organization, Differences

  The Maltese Falcon ch. 20 (1930)

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• Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of fortune types picking their way through the bodies and the rubble. "Amy?" Oh, God. It was Amy. "Get away from her," Jenna ordered, stepping out from behind the conifer, wielding the iron pan like a club. Both men stopped. Glanced at her. Glanced at each other over Amy's head. "What?" The biggest one grunted out a surly laugh. "Or you'll souffle us?" Okay. She was definitely going after him first.

  Cindy Gerard

  Men, Two, Iron

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• I dont know what could possibly distract three pigs enough so that you can get away." Sabrina thought for a moment then grinned. "I know exactly what to do.

  Michael Buckley

  Pigs, Three, Moments

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• Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.

  Robert Rankin

  Said

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• Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts.

  Ilona Andrews

  Nuts, Aberration, Odd

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.45, Penguin

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• But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.

  Jay Asher

  Noise, Awareness, Turns

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Brother, Father, Heart

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ideas, Creating, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.171, Penguin

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• But I'll tell you something else, too. Something I've learned, the hard way. I guess"—Gram laughed a little—"I'm the kind of person who has to learn things the hard way. You've got to hold on. Hold on to people. They can get away from you. It's not always going to be fun, but if you don't—hold on—then you lose them.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Fun, People, Littles

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• I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.

  Steig Larsson

  Positive, Fighting, Hands

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• Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby." This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.

  Eoin Colfer

  Jumping, Giving, Orion

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• i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

  David Levithan

  Wish, Done, Able

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, John Green, and Rodrigo Corral, April 6, 2010.

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• Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~

  Dr. Seuss

  Writing, Mean, Simple

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• He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it.

  Douglas Adams

  Air, Wind, Wings

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme

  Mary Hoffman

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Have you tried this shrimp? It's freaking amazing. Would you get away from me? I hate you. You're so moody. Just because I kidnapped you and tried to force you to be my girlfriend. I thought you would be over that by now.

  Meg Cabot

  Girlfriend, Hate, Would Be

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• No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Insanity, Littles, Way

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• It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.

  Ken Follett

  Girl, Men, Should Have

  Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION”, p.2780, Penguin

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• You never knew what you could get away with until you tried.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.114, Delacorte Press

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• But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism!

  Matt Groening

  Agreement, Capitalism

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• Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.

  James A. Baldwin

  Book, Thinking, Rocks

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• God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.

  Graham Greene

  Running, Hate, Heart

  "The Collected Edition: The power and the glory".

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