I Realized Quotes - Page 25

• We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Ocean, Sky, Trying

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.194, Penguin

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• That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

  John Green

  Losing, Holes, Ifs

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.187, Penguin

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• I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash of expectations that can never all be met. What one-tenth of my readership may not be crazy about the other nine-tenths savors. The moment you start altering a book or a painting or any type of art as if it's a public collaborative, you crucify its soul. I'd rather irritate a few people and delight a lot than touch no one." ~ Karen Marie Moning

  Karen Marie Moning

  Art, Crazy, Book

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• I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my back. It made me feel giant. I raced back down the concrete ramp, faster than I ever had before, so fast I should have fallen, but I didn't fall, because Mom was in the world.

  Maria Semple

  Mom, Fall, Should Have

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• Thanks to these eyes...I came to understand how cruel and despicable people can be. But that also allowed me to appreciate true beauty. All you have to do is appreciate things from a different perspective Once I realized the things we take for granted are really miracles, I came to see everything in it's precious, empheral beauty. ..... I love this world.

  Jun Mochizuki

  Eye, People, Appreciate

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• I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Stories, Sense Of Humor

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• John flung himself into a pseudo-karate stance, one hand poised behind him and one in front, posed like a cartoon cactus. I thought for an odd moment he had moved his limbs so fast they had made that whoosh sound through air but then I realized John was making that sound with his mouth.

  David Wong

  Air, Hands, Cartoon

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.526, Titan Books

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• Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Today, Saws, Illusion

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• As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.

  Ernest Cline

  Two, Skin Color, Years

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.321, Random House

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• I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn’t going to hold him back.

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Wrath, Suffering

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.267, Penguin UK

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• The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.

  Richelle Mead

  Body, Lips, Notches

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.34, Penguin

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• I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

  Pat Conroy

  Winning, Innocent, Can't Win

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.453, Open Road Media

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• I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized that I couldn't find books that took me to all of the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.

  Pat Murphy

  Book, Writing, Kids

  "The Wild Girls".

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• I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

  Richelle Mead

  Fronts

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• ...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Flipped, One Thing, Bryce Loski

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• I gave him a smile that I hoped was as dazzling as one of his. "I realized I'm in love." Marcus, startled, looked around as though he expected to see my object d'amour in the car with us. "And you just realized this? Did you just have some sort of vision?" "Didn't need to," I said, thinking of Wolfe's ill-fated trip to the Orkneys. "It's always been right in front of me.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Car, Vision

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• Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

  Virginia Woolf

  Long Ago, Would Be, Persons

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• The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pain, Hate, Dark

  "A Scanner Darkly". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1977.

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• Actually this is really funny - one time she accidentally forgot to leave a note and I had no idea she had even moved. I was living in the house with a beautiful Mexican family for three months before I realized they weren't my cousins visiting from out of town. They were so nice. They called me "Quien es, quien es," which I thought was a beautiful name.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Beautiful, Cousin, Nice

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• As I walked back to civilization, I realized that for the first time in the six months I had known Curran, we had managed to have a conversation and part ways without wanting to kill each other. I found that fact deeply troubling.

  Ilona Andrews

  Civilization, Six Months, Way

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.49, Penguin

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• My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus

  Albert Camus

  Summer, Wisdom, Hate

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• Tod laughed. He was always able to find the humour in even the creepiest situations. I'd thought that it was an undead thing, until I became a member of the undead. Then I realized it was a Tod-thing.

  Rachel Vincent

  Able, Members, Humour

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• I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least were familiar to me. Love I am not familiar with. I didn't recognize that feeling until I thought I had lost you in Ephrata. And when I thought I was losing you a second time, I realized I would give up anything to keep you-my lip service to other gods, but my pride, too, and my rage at all gods, everything for you.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Giving Up, Pain, Grief

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• I have friends who have children, and they have told me how remarkable it is to have a new life that is a piece of your own flesh anf blood. But I --" "I realized that I didn't love her because she was a piece of me, I loved her because she was a piece of you.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Blood, New Life

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• When I was a little kid, I realized that if you say any word over and over fast enough, it loses all it's meaning.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kids, Littles, Enough

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.647, Simon and Schuster

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