Killing Quotes - Page 33

• Please don’t let it be another cop. I’m outta bail money. Wait a minute…I could sell you on eBay and make a killing. (Mark) Not in my current condition. You’d have to sell Caleb or Madaug. I’m sure there’s someone willing to buy two perfectly good white boys. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Perfectly Good, Ebay

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• What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

  Alice Sebold

  Children, Animal, Thinking

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

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• The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's not ready to know that just yet. Maybe he never will. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can suprise you. I talk to my brother as I never have before, trusting in him, letting the river listen to my confessions on its path toward the sea. ~pg 693

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Brother, Honesty

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.454, Simon and Schuster

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• Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Children, Believe, School

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Stormbreaker”, p.163, Penguin

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• Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Boys, Men

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Lakes, Order

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

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• A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. "Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real." "I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?" "This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Badass, Real, Book

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.816, Simon and Schuster

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• I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Giving Up, Way

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.247, Mark Twain

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• A weapon is a tool," she repeated, a little breathlessly. "A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy, you must kill and destroy. Then you will choose and equip yourself with the tools that you need. But remember the weakness of weapons. They are an extension--you are the killer and destroyer. You are whole, with or without them.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Weakness, Needs, Tools

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• So what brings you here? (Devyn) People needed killing. (Adron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Needed

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• I’m telling you right now I could make him pop an aneurysm and no one would know. (Nero) Doesn’t that kind of murder bother you at all? (Alix) Given everything people have done to me in my life, little girl, especially in my childhood when I was helpless against them, humanity is lucky I’m not on a perpetual killing spree. As for the Merjacks…I owe them a debt that no amount of violence on my part will settle. So, no. Nothing about killing him would bother me. (Nero)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, People, Childhood

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• Wolves don’t socialize with humans. You guys tend to freak out when you learn what we are. Not to mention, your females are rather frail. I don’t like having to hold back for fear of bruising or killing my partner when I mate. (Vane) And people think I speak my mind. Jeez. You will just say anything, won’t you? (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Thinking, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.315, St. Martin's Press

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• You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

  Anne Rice

  Killing Others, Vampire, Penalties

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.306, Ballantine Books

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• Why does the Destroyer hate Artemis? (Cassandra) Love. Why else? Love, hatred, and revenge are the most powerful emotions on earth. Apollymi wants revenge on Artemis for killing the one thing she loved most in the universe. (Katra) And that is? (Cassandra) I would never betray either one by saying it. (Katra) Would you write it down?...Oh, yeah, like the two of you weren’t thinking the same thing. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Powerful, Revenge, Hate

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• This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder." "I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you're talking about killing him." "I meant it the other way." "Oh.

  Gary Paulsen

  Giving Up, Talking, Way

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• Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious.

  Michelle Sagara

  Killing Someone, Effort, Opinion

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 2: Cast in Secret\Cast in Fury\Cast in Silence”, p.955, MIRA

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• I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.

  Tessa Dare

  Hurt, Thinking, Promise

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.213, Ballantine Books

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• A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.

  Greg Mortenson

  Wise, School, Home

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.231, Penguin

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• It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nice, Would Be, Want

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2006). “Danse Macabre: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.370, Penguin

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• But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Aftermath, Persons, Knows

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.59, Scholastic

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• Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Art, Kings, Father

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1994). “The Flanders Panel”, Harvill Press

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• When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Men, Phones, Garage

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• Leonard Aster thanked Fighting Prawn and the Mollusk tribe for their hospitality. “You mean,” said Fighting Prawn, “for not killing you?” “Yes,” said Leonard. “It was very gracious of you.” “Do you,” said Leonard, “I mean, does you tribe, shake hands?” “No,” said Fighting Prawn. “We kiss on the lips.” “Oh,” said Leonard, looking very alarmed.

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Fighting, Kissing

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• When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options." -Bella

  Stephenie Meyer

  Breaking Dawn, Left

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• My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

  Anne Rice

  Long, Immortal, Conscience

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2002, Ballantine Books

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