Heavy Boots Quotes

• I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Play, Wish, Boots

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Boots, Matter, Life Is

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Crazy, Heart, Bruises

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• My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

  Henry Rollins

  Optimistic, Optimism, Boots

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• In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Morning, New York, Sleep

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

  Henry Rollins

  Relationship, Sad, Life And Death

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• Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

  Henry Rollins

  Motivational Workout, Blood, Mind

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  Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life, I Hate You, Weight

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

  Henry Rollins

  Life, Stay Strong, Moving

  Henry Rollins (1992). “Art to choke hearts ; & Pissing in the gene pool: collected writing 1985-1987”, 2 13 61

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  Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

  Henry Rollins

  Lonely, Being Alone, People

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• I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Boots, Minutes, Heavy

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh land of farms and green hills mild Once formed by giants rough and wild With massive paws they gripped and tore With one great rip they formed the shore Where heavy boots left prints so deep Blue lakes remain 'tween summits steep The giants fought beneath our skies And from their bones our mountains rise

  Shannon Hale

  Rip, Lakes, Blue

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• Seth put his ear against the door. "I can't hear anything." "There are probably ten of them patiently waiting on the far side, ready to pounce." Brownies are shrimps. All I'd need are some heavy boots, a pair of shin guards, and a weed whacker." The image made Kendra giggle.

  Brandon Mull

  Weed, Doors, Waiting

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

  Annie Besant

  Past, India, Boots

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