Littles Quotes - Page 14

• It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.

  Miranda July

  Giving Up, Writing, Loving Someone

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.6, McSweeney's

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• Sometimes I think He looks down and says, "Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little.

  Michael Grant

  Thinking, Looks, Gone

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• She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.

  Raymond Carver

  Daughter, Morning, Nice

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.148, Vintage

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• That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inevitable, Feels, Power To Change

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• If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon

  Meg Cabot

  Kissing, Fool, Ifs

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• We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.

  Emma Donoghue

  Grandma, Names, Tree

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• On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had been asked about them so often that in the end she had started a blacklist of banned words to which everyone could refer. Every time someone thought of a new one, she unflinchingly wrote it down... Rose read through the list, and turned back to her letter. These are the words I learned to spell in Mummy's art class today, she wrote, and sighed a little as she began the tedious job of copying from the board.

  Hilary McKay

  Mother, Art, Jobs

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• Wayne's a little attached to that hat," Waxillium said. "He thinks it's lucky." Wayne: "It is lucky. I ain't never died while wearing that hat." Marasi frowned. "I ... I'm not sure I know how to respond." Wax: "That's a common reaction to Wayne.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, Lucky, Hats

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• We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

  Cory Doctorow

  Fighting, Winning, Battle

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• But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Situation, Humans

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.200

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• Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Believe, People, Needs

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• ..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor's corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep?

  Andrea Gibson

  Girl, Mother, Dream

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• Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Character, Past

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.719, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Tess Of The D Urbervilles, Dazed

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.95, Diversion Books

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• Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

  Elie Wiesel

  Violin, Next, Poignant

  Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.134, Penguin UK

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• In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Men, Names

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.796, Bantam

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• I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.

  Chris Colfer

  Writing, Giving, Soul

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• You're my life, Elle. When we have our children, they'll be included in that circle and I'm not a man to lose everything. I want you as safe as possible." "So you don't think three protection dogs, a room filled with weapons, a panic room and house that eats people isn't just a little overkill?

  Christine Feehan

  Dog, Children, Men

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• In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hurt, Names, Care

  "David Foster Wallace on John McCain: 'The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub'" by David Foster Wallace, www.rollingstone.com. April 13, 2000.

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• I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights? All me life I have been lived among them but now they are becoming lothed to me. And I am lothing their little warm tricks. And lothing their mean cosy turns. And all the greedy gushes out through their small souls. And all the lazy leaks down over their brash bodies. How small it's all! And me letting on to meself always. And lilting on all the time.

  James Joyce

  Mean, Night, Thinking

  James Joyce (1967). “A shorter Finnegans wake”, Viking Pr

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• Everything good in there, T? Niko quipped. You need backup or anything? Bag of marshmallows to roast over that little campfire you just started?

  Tina St. John

  Needs, Bags, Campfire

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• With a little effort, she could get up by herself

  Paolo Giordano

  Effort, Get Up

  Paolo Giordano (2009). “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”, p.379, Random House

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• Henry nodded, thinking, 'If you were any more whipped, little brother, they'd serve you on ice cream.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Brother, Thinking, Ice Cream

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• She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Girl, Sweet, Artist

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• He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.

  James M. Barrie

  Moving, Boys, Fire

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.134, 谷月社

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