Grew Quotes - Page 24

• Someone remind me why I didn’t want to be an accountant when I grew up,” Brock drawled. Niko chuckled. “Because accountants don’t get to make things go boom.

  Tina St. John

  Want, Grew Up, Accountants

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• How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Morning, Night, Two

  Patricia Highsmith (2015). “The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)”, p.221, She Winked Press

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• You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?

  Laini Taylor

  Children, Rain, Land

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• I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.

  Veronica Roth

  Writing, World, Used

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• Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as the fear and the necessity became abstract. And only her own actions stood out with crystal clarity.

  Michael Grant

  Memories, Fear, Guilt

  Michael Grant (2012). “Fear”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life’s buried here, Heap earth upon it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Heart, White

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.5, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.

  Kim Harrison

  Years, Able, Witch

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• She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt before. He kissed her and slowed and would have stopped. But she laughed, and said that this one time she would consent to hurt, and bleed, at his touch. He smiled into her neck and kissed her again and she moved with him through the pain. The pain became a warmth that grew. Grew, and stopped her breath. And took her breath and her pain and her mind away from her body, so that there was nothing but her body and his body and the light and fire they made together.

  Kristin Cashore

  Hurt, Pain, Fire

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Important, Chance, Meetings

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• The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life - when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Fun, Real

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• Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive.

  J. Lynn

  Cancer, Envy

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• As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Men, Thinking, People

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you see on the beach, and you touch them, and then go inside and don’t come out.

  Janet Frame

  Beach, Black, Littles

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• I don't need any explanation about what you do with your life. You and I...we grew up together,and that's it. Yeah, we shared a lot of stuff back then, and we were there for each other when it mattered. But neither one of us can fit into the clothes we used to wear , and this relationship between us is just the same. It doesn't fit in our lives any longer. We don't...fit anymore. And listen., I didn't mean to get pissy in the truck, but I think you need to be clear on this. You and I? We have a past. That's it. That's ...all we'll ever have" (Blay to Qhuinn).

  J.R. Ward

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

  George R. R. Martin

  World, Jersey, Grew Up

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• We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.

  Shane Koyczan

  Cheer, Underdog, Grew Up

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2013.

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• The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of it, they began to regain the intimacy, the bond of familiarity, they had once shared.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Moon, Sky, Rose

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• Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Taught, Grew Up

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• I cannae believe you let me touch you.” His voice grew hoarse. “I shall remember this for all my nights.” Tears speared into her eyes. Dearest Virgin Scribe, for all her life, she had waited for a moment like this…. “Do not cry.” His thumb went to her cheeks. “Beautiful female of worth, do not cry.

  J.R. Ward

  Beautiful, Believe, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2013). “Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.566, Penguin

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• I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Horse, Teaching, White

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• After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Powerful, Age, Stronger

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.178, Random House

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• Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.

  Rick Riordan

  Flesh Eating, Smell, Scare

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• People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

  Ann Aguirre

  Blessing, Appreciate, People

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.313, Macmillan

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• ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME And down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin' at all.

  Shel Silverstein

  Taste, Bottles, Drink

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• There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

  Cecelia Ahern

  House, Soul, Grew Up

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “PS, I love you”

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