Knows Quotes - Page 39

• Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

  Patti Smith

  Heart, Youth

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.135, A&C Black

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• Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

  Tao Lin

  Mean, Looks, Rooms

  Tao Lin (2009). “Shoplifting from American Apparel”, Melville House Pub

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• We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

  Tao Lin

  Night, Sitting, Stills

  Tao Lin (2009). “Shoplifting from American Apparel”, Melville House Pub

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• A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not I." Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification. The doll-mask she saw had nothing to do with her, nothing.

  A. S. Byatt

  Beautiful, Mirrors, Dolls

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• The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

  Franz Kafka

  Forever, World, Paradise

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Schocken

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• Should I push him or should I throw him?" Howie asks. "Do what comes naturally," I yelled back. "I don't know," he says. "This is a very unnatural thing.

  Neal Shusterman

  Should, Asks, Unnatural

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• Lik the tree falling in the forest," says Ira. "Huh?" "You know, the old question - if a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it really make a sound?" Howie considers this. "Is it a pine forest, or oak?" "What's the difference?" "Oak is a much denser wood; it's more likely to be heard by someone on the freeway next to the forest where no one is.

  Neal Shusterman

  Fall, Differences, Tree

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• I hate that word, CAN’T. I wish it had never been dreamed up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN’T could be eradicated not only from language, but more importantly from the psyche of a girl who I know is filled with so much CAN it seeps out of her pores and scents the air.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Girl, Hate, Air

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.132, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

  Cynthia Lord

  Thinking, People, Who You Are

  Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.523, Scholastic Inc.

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• I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

  Ruth Reichl

  Live In The Moment, Trouble, Moments

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• Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Liberty, Ordinary, Use

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• You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Life, Thinking, Awful

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• One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Kissing, Laughing, Secret

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes. I know that some people like: sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, but you take me as I am and never forget to pack an umbrella.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Rain, Clouds, Light

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• Next caller. Betty, you're on the air. What's your question ?" "Hi, Kitty. I just wanted to know, are you going out with that Cormac guy from last month?" My jaw dropped. "What?" "Are you going out with that Cormac guy?" "We are talking about the same Cormac who tried to kill me on the air, yes? the guy who hunts werewolves for a living ?" "Uh-huh." "And you want to know if I'm dating him ? Why on earth do you think that's a good idea?

  Carrie Vaughn

  Thinking, Air, Talking

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• I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Patterns, Heat

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

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• People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Thinking, People

  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.1154, Simon and Schuster

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• He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready to do his bit even though he couldn't possibly know what sacrifices that would require. Had he been kept here, too--in a place he didn't belong, serving in a war in which he hadn't enlisted, to rescue sparrows and soldiers and shopgirls and Shakespeare? To tip the balance?

  Connie Willis

  War, Home, Sacrifice

  Connie Willis (2010). “All Clear”, p.635, Spectra

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• And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.

  Patrick Ness

  Running, Sorry, Eye

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• After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India. 'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked. 'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Gratitude, Kindness, Father

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2007). “Queen of Dreams”, p.295, Anchor

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• Roarke "I'll drop you." Eve "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy sees me show up in a hot car with a fancy piece behind the wheel, he's not going to like me." Roarke "You know how I love being referred. to as your fancy piece." Eve "Sometimes you're my love muffin.

  Nora Roberts

  Car, Guy, Wheels

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• I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.

  Megan Hart

  Broken

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• One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Wine, Bisexual, Thoughtful

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• If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Reality, Voice

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• [about her offer of a Swedish massage] Alex: You're not Swedish. Brittany: Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.

  Simone Elkeles

  Differences, Alex, Massage

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