Horrible Quotes - Page 18

• Anything's better than Gen X which is what we got. Thanks Douglas Coupland. We sound like a team of mutant vigalantees with frosted hair and chain wallets. Actually that's not completely horrible.

  Patton Oswalt

  Team, Hair, Sound

  Patton Oswalt (2011). “Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I think of how and where all the horrible people I've come across in my life ended up, and I smile.

  Corey Taylor

  Thinking, People, I Smile

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• Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one of Gran’s old romance novels, where the damsel wilts into the arms of one half-dressed beefy guy while another stands by,casting her longing looks. Oh, the horrible choices a girl must make! I wished I’d had a moment to clean up. I was still covered in dried river muck, twine, and grass, like I’d been tarred and feathered. Then Anubis pushed past me and gripped Walt’s shoulders. Well…that was unexpected.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Past, Expression

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• One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Deny, Companion, Defects

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.111, Wordsworth Editions

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• The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lovely, World, Care

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• Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

  Harlan Coben

  Thinking, Might, Fool

  Harlan Coben (2011). “Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel”, p.60, Penguin

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• There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

  Irvine Welsh

  Beautiful, Sweet, Want

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• Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

  Stefano Benni

  Plato, Being In Love, Bowie

  Stefano Benni, Antony Shugaar (2006). “Margherita Dolce Vita”, Europa Editions Incorporated

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• That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that.

  Christopher Moore

  Plans, Chosen

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• I had this dream...that we had this new sixth member, for some reason, and he actually ended up being quite horrible! And he started a fight with me! And I wanted him to go away and none of the boys were helping me!

  Louis Tomlinson

  Dream, Fighting, Boys

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• Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Keys, Balance, Trying

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• It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, World Love, Wonderful

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• If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to her. She heard a growl of an engine and shut her eyes, afraid to see what the future might hold. She'd never cared so much about anything in her life. Just as the car was passing, she opened her eyes and saw a Mercedes hood ornament. She let out a long sigh, tears coming to her eyes once more. The car was blue.

  Sara Shepard

  Eye, Blue, Long

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• Yeah, well, it's been a super fun week. And by 'super fun' I mean 'horrible and endless'.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Fun, Mean, Week

  MaryJanice Davidson (2007). “Undead and Uneasy: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.133, Penguin

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• I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

  James Dashner

  Thinking

  James Dashner (2011). “The Death Cure (Maze Runner, Book Three)”, p.105, Delacorte Press

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• There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Regret, Reflection

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

  Meg Cabot

  Want, Blame, Sometimes

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Sight, Soul

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.49, Random House

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• This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

  David Levithan

  Gratitude, Thinking, People

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.76, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

  Ann Patchett

  Want Something, People, Telling The Truth

  Ann Patchett (2012). “State of Wonder”, p.382, A&C Black

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• I told her that I can't be doing with the Wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the icing on the cake... I've never liked wedding cake due to the amount of icing, but then imagine a wedding cake without it; just a dark, stodgy, horrible dry sponge. The icing covers up the mess, and that's how I feel about most of the Wonders. They use them to get people to visit a place that you probably wouldn't think about visiting.

  Karl Pilkington

  Dark, Thinking, Cake

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.131, Canongate Books

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• One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

  Tony Kushner

  Optimism, Looks, Kind

  Tony Kushner, Robert Vorlicky (1998). “Tony Kushner in Conversation”, p.148, University of Michigan Press

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• Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.

  John Green

  Thinking, Opposites, Forever

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.16, Penguin

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• Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.

  Meg Cabot

  Boys, Self, Flames

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• Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that - was it really so much better to be unmolested, but still murdered in a horrible fashion? To die in pain and terror, stripped, left in a field, your fingers cut off? But as long as you weren't raped, well, that was alright, then? Did it really matter at that point?

  Barry Lyga

  Fashion, Pain, Cutting

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