Intense Quotes - Page 23

• interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Mean, Ends, Interest

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). “The Great Gatsby”, p.130, Oxford University Press

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• Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

  Plutarch

  Book, Delight, Speak

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• He was tall, one of the tallest men she had ever seen. Dressed in jeans, boots and a cotton shirt. Thick black hair grew rakishly long, falling over the collar of his shirt. Intense brown eyes, almost the color of amber, surveyed the diner slowly before coming back to her. Electricity sizzled in the air then, as though invisible currents connected them, forcing her to recognize him on a primitive level. Not that she wouldn’t take notice anyway. He was power, strength, and so incredibly male that her breath caught at the sight of him.

  Lora Leigh

  Fall, Eye, Men

  Lora Leigh (2018). “Elizabeth's Wolf”, p.34, Penguin

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• When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things.

  Taylor Swift

  Teenager, Thinking, Needs

  "Teen Choice Awards 2011: Taylor Swift Nabs Ultimate Choice Award" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 08, 2011.

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• Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

  Dean Koontz

  Grief, Sorrow, Might

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• Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love Is, Feelings, May

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.

  Terry Goodkind

  Eye, Self, Connections

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.12, Head of Zeus

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• If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Liars, Party, Goal

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• Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

  Joe Hill

  Another Chance, Humans, Pitiful

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Waves Breaking, Feet, House

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• He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Two, Ephemeral, Emotion

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Of Love and Other Demons”, p.121, Penguin UK

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• In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined film footage, and listened to many detailed and intense stories firsthand, but the one comment that affected me the most came from a former soldier who lowered his gaze to the tabletop and said, ‘I never watch war movies.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  War, Book, Soldier

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• Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long.

  Lucy Christopher

  Eye, Long, Staring

  Lucy Christopher (2013). “The Killing Woods”, p.224, Chicken House

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• Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

  Mary Karr

  Real, Names, Smell

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: Picador Classic”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Feelings, Absence, Not Sure

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• He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Embrace, Hold Me

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.35, David C Cook

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• I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Chance, Cry

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Fletcher appeared beside her. He peered at the baby. "Can it do any tricks yet?" "I'm still working on it. Want to hold her?" "God, no," Fletcher said laughing. "I'd drop it." "It's not an it, it's my baby sister. Go on, hold her. You won't make a mess of it, i swear. Only an idiot could drop a baby." "You always say I am an idiot." "But you're a special kind of idiot. Here." She passed Alice into his arms, and he stood there, rigid, a look of intense concentration on his face.

  Derek Landy

  Baby, Laughing, Special

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• it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Past, Resistance

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happen. But if you didn't? You missed this. This intense and prefect moment in which, while the world was almost literally going to hells all around you, hope and reality blended in a single, perfect note.

  Michelle Sagara

  Believe, Reality, Perfect

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• The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Evil, Guilt

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

  Milan Kundera

  Light, Darkness, Beam

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• During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't sure which was more excruciating-living with that horrible absence, or being with him again.

  Rick Riordan

  Feelings, Annabeth, Saving

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• I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. 'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Eye, Voice

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• This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Overwhelming Desire, People, Conflict

  FaceBook post by Joseph Gordon-Levitt from Aug 23, 2012

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