Kind Quotes - Page 26

• And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.

  John Green

  Eye, Dark

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.138, Penguin

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• I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Long, Madness

  Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser (2012). “A Breath of Life”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.

  Michka Assayas

  Thinking, Passionate, Sometimes

  Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.94, Penguin

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• There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

  Gene Wolfe

  Lonely, Believe, Men

  Gene Wolfe (2001). “There Are Doors”, p.277, Macmillan

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• I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so very briefly, was of far vaster and deeper import than it truly was. Of all the weapons we chose to turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.

  Steven Erikson

  Memories, Love You, Past

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• In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadn’t brought it up, and they hadn’t brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Don’t ask, don’t tell.

  Kami Garcia

  Guy, Understanding, Goes On

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.108, Penguin UK

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• It's not a good feeling--knowing that you profoundly deserve the title of monster. It's better to be kind than to feel guilty.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Knowing, Feelings, Monsters

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.427, Hachette UK

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• You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kindness, Giving, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I’m sorry if I’m not flirting with you. I’m kind of spoken for.

  Ally Carter

  Sorry, Flirting, Ifs

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• No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

  Hilary Mantel

  War, World, Able

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• So thirsty," Jack groaned. "So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death." "Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would be nice." "So would not thirsting to death," said Jack "Thirsting isn't even a word," said Jill "It isn't?" "No." "Then what's the word?" "I dont know. You just can't." "Oh." This is, of course, the kind of inane conversation that occurs when people are slowly losing their minds.

  Adam Gidwitz

  Nice, People, Mind

  Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.71, Penguin

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• If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen.

  Kami Garcia

  Stupid, People, Judging

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• Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Sunday, People, Neurosis

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• I walked over and picked up one of the jugs. "What's this? Some kind of Caster disinfectant?" Lena took it out of my hand and lined it up with the others. "Yeah, it's called bleach.

  Kami Garcia

  Hands, Jugs, Bleach

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• Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Hurt, Loving You

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• And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be a soul but strong as only a human could be.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strong, Men, Soul

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• I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Math, Men

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• I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

  Ned Vizzini

  Broken, Feelings, Useless

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• The queen's eyes smouldered. "I know my own kind when I see them, and right now there is one in these city walls." She pointed a finger toward the balcony."I want her found and brought to me." "Right," said Kai,"that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.

  Marissa Meyer

  Queens, Wall, Eye

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• These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.

  Kami Garcia

  Thinking, Guy, Graves

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2012). “Beautiful Redemption”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Flower, Evil, Tree

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy

  David Levithan

  Two, People

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• The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

  Philip K. Dick

  Fear, Shadow, Dangerous

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.

  Jane Jacobs

  Dream, Cities, People

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• It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

  Meg Cabot

  Depressing, Mean, Thinking

  Meg Cabot (2009). “High Stakes”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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