Hallways Quotes - Page 4

• Susan was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Summer, Brother, Fun

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, 1999.

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• ... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.

  Devon Monk

  Toilets, Stones, Conversation

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.290, Penguin

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• You didn’t really hold back on Braga so Pickering could kill him, did you?” Royce asked after the two were left alone in the hallway. “Of course not. I held off because it’s death for a commoner to kill a noble.” “That’s what I thought.” Royce sounded relieved. “For a minute, I wondered if you’d gone from jumping on the good-deed wagon to leading the whole wagon train.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Jumping, Two, Gone

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.266, Ridan Publishing

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• Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Kids, Looks, Lockers

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• And as I stood there in the hallway―alone―trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an explanation―not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.

  Jay Asher

  Eye, Trying, Reactions

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.168, Penguin

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• I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

  Juliet Marillier

  Should Have, Storm, Firsts

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• I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.

  Sylvia Day

  Wall, Two, Feet

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.279, Penguin

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• For a moment, Jason could only stand there in the hallway with his nose pressed up against the cold wood of her door. After a few seconds, he knocked politely. Taylor whipped open the door, unamused. Jason grinned at her. “I just gotta ask: Where did you get the whole ‘all the cute girls run around naked’ thing?” “I defend sexual harassment cases, Mr. Andrews,” she replied coolly. "I’ve seen and heard things even you haven’t thought of.” “Care to test out that theory?” She slammed the door in his face again.

  Julie James

  Cute, Girl, Running

  Julie James (2008). “Just the Sexiest Man Alive”, p.84, Penguin

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• Just because they didn’t shoot you all in the head doesn’t mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just to run through your hallways, knock you conscious, and leave?

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• He glanced furtively up and down the hallway. "Hodge too. Everyone wants to talk to me. Except you, I bet you don't want to talk to me," said Jace. "No," said Clary. "I want to eat. I'm starving.

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Jace, Said

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• Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.

  Christopher Paolini

  Dark, Trying, Scare

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• The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

  Don DeLillo

  Fire, House, Alarms

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod on the speaker dock, and a Bob Dylan song came on, the notes familiar. I went into the living room, hitting the switch there, then down the hallway to my room, where I did the same. It was amazing what a little noise and brightness could do to a house and a life, how much the smallest bit of each could change everything. After all these years of just passing through, I was beginning to finally feel at home.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Dad, Home

  "What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 10, 2011.

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• They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear - a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hurt, Wall, Pain

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• I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

  Annie Lennox

  Black And White, House, Tvs

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• I was so paranoid that my friends wouldn't like me. I went to a very small school where the consequences of bullying were very real. You couldn't just push some nameless face in the hallway because everybody knew each other's families, so there wasn't the obligatory psychotic jackass that tortured everybody.

  Kristen Bell

  Bullying, Real, School

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.

  David Whyte

  Mean, Lovely, Steps

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• One recurring dream, many others have also: you go into a familiar house, discover a door or hallway, and find the house continues into hidden rooms. Sometimes a whole second house is there, a larger and unknown extension of the familiar dwelling.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Doors, Dwelling

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Coats, Way, Evening

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Maybe when we were shooting in the school, I was feeling more like it. Every time I go back to a school for work, I always feel so huge. Everything seems so little. The lockers seem smaller than I remember and the length of the hallways seem shorter when you're a kid.

  Judy Greer

  Kids, School, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

  Bill Cosby

  Unique, Misunderstood, Use

  "Bill Cosby sounds like less of a prude now" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2007.

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• When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.

  Florence King

  Suicide, Country, Strong

  Florence King (1976). “Southern ladies and gentlemen”

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• I've been singing my whole life. I'd randomly sing in the hallways at high school, and all my friends would be like, 'You should sing on 'Canadian Idol'!" It definitely gassed me!

  The Weeknd

  School, Idols, Singing

  "The Dark Knight Returns: A Conversation With the Weeknd". Interview with Anupa Mistry, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2015.

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• We had a teacher, named Mr. Brown, and he was writing something on the board once - he was writing something on the board, and he farted. And you would have thought kids had seen the face of God. Kids weren't even laughing; they were just sitting there screaming, just screaming. Kids had to get carted out; kids were screaming. Kids had to get carted out, and they were going to the nurses' office. Kids are crying in the hallway. 'Oh, this is our 9/11.' And it was. It was their 9/11 'cause they never thought anything like that could ever happen.

  Donald Glover

  Teacher, Kids, Writing

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• We're down in Mexico. It's for a bachelor party, so we go into a Mexican strip club... I go back with this woman down a murky hallway, and then without missing a beat - these ladies are all business - she goes, 'Go ahead, take out your dong.' 'I'm not taking out my dong. And by the way, who uses the word dong? If you want to be hip to the lingo, they're not using the word dong up in the States.

  Al Madrigal

  Party, Mexican, Missing

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