Littles Quotes - Page 16

• If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Struggle, Water, Laughing

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• The fear is like metal on my tongue—I’ve known him but a fragment of time, and yet I’m certain if I accept his suit, it will destroy a part of me when he leaves.” Keir reached forward to tuck her hair behind her ear. “We’re all a little broken.” Quiet. Potent. “No one goes through life with a whole heart.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Hair, Broken

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Dance”, p.34, Penguin

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• I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.

  Tamora Pierce

  Today, Mets, Fellows

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Mastiff: The Legend of Beka Cooper #3”, p.581, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

  Sara Gruen

  Pockets, Protect

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• I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that’s best in all of creation, a spirit who knows the great potential of each planet as well as each person, and little by little will love us into being more than we ever dreamed possible. That loving spirit would rather die than give up on any one of us.

  Fred Rogers

  Giving Up, Believe, Spirit

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• Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

  Nick Cave

  Sorrow, Tears, World

  Song: Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?

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• If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Too Much, Stills, Ifs

  Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.12, U of Nebraska Press

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• Her little fists pummeled at him, and he accepted the abuse. Until he realized she’d made an improper fist and was actually hurting herself. He wound an arm around her waist, spun her and slammed her into the hard line of his body to still her. “Let me go!” “In a minute.” As she struggled, he pulled her thumb out from beneath her fingers and rearranged her fist. “Hit like this.” Done, he released her.

  Gena Showalter

  Hurt, Abuse, Done

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.348, HQN Books

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• everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Intuition, Sometimes, Behavior

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 28, 2012

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• The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.

  Jodi Picoult

  Balance, One Day, Legs

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• I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Thinking, Giving, Too Much

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• We're not robbing him," Skulduggery said." But I'm afraid I have some bad news." "Is it Deacon?" Francine asked, her eyes wide. "It is." "Is he sick?" "It's a little worse than that." She gasped. "He's dying?" "He was briefly dying," said Skulduggery. "Now he's dead.

  Derek Landy

  Eye, Sick, Dying

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• Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Fall, Home

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

  Alan Moore

  Past, Years, Everyday

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• My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?

  George R. R. Martin

  Sweet, Brother, Father

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.314, Bantam

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• We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us. Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Reality, Thinking

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• What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of them all? Answer:the Great British Empire. Clearly, one tiny little island could only conquer half the known world with supernatural aid. Those absurd Victorian manners and ridiculous fashions were obviously dictated by vampires. And, without a doubt, the British army regimental system functions on werewolf pack dynamics.

  Gail Carriger

  Fashion, Army, Islands

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• Isabelle, it's all right for you to be a little afraid, but you should also be very excited and joyful, too. You're about to bring a new life into this world." "I would rather Winslow do it.

  Julie Garwood

  New Life, World, Excited

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Secret”, p.111, Penguin

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• The little boy leaned against his father's chest and slowly nodded. "Yes," he said. "I heard all of the names, but I don't remember the other two… just the man who hurt Gillian." "That's the name I most want," Brodick said softly. "Who is he, Alec?" "Alec, please," Gillian began. "Tell me, Alec. Who is he?" "Baron," Alec whispered. "His name is Baron.

  Julie Garwood

  Hurt, Father, Boys

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, Dark, Men

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• It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Going Away, Stuff

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• It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.

  Tove Jansson

  Block, Spring, Rocks

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• If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.

  Ally Carter

  Might, Moments, That Moment

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.106, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And anyway, the truth isn't all that great. I mean, what's the truth? Planes falling out of the sky. Buses blowing up and ripping little kids into millions of pieces. Twelve-year-olds raping people and then shooting them in the head so they can't tell. I can't watch the news anymore or look at the papers. It's like whoever sits up there in Heaven has this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and makes everything crazy, like fairy dust that's past its expiration date.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Crazy, Fall, Mean

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• a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

  Mark Twain

  Mind, Belly

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.267, Courier Corporation

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