Littles Quotes - Page 29

• I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

  John Green

  Memories, Alaska, Space

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.127, Penguin

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• Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Wall, Mean

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.322, Bantam

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• In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Book, New Life

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• Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.

  Alyson Noel

  Courses

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.130, Pan Macmillan

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• Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

  Chris Colfer

  Decision, Mind, World

  Chris Colfer (2012). “The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Sympathy, Heart, Doctors

  "Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Play, Wish, Sometimes

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• Even though Kate had only known Hale for a little more than two years, she had seen him in a lot of situations.

  Ally Carter

  Years, Two, Hale

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• I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

  James Patterson

  Voice, Made, Feels

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• The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mom, Mother, Artist

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• In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

  John Green

  Cute, Baby, Reading

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.55, Penguin

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• The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.

  Ray Bradbury

  Animal, Laughing, Facts

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• Are you suggesting we pull a little good cop, bad cop scenario on him? And You're even letting me be the bad cop?" He bowed his head. "That, my pretera, is how much I love you." "You have never been sexier than at this very moment." "It is a shame we have so much company," he agreed quietly.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Love You, Shame, Cop

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• People I didn't know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view. They escorted me safely back to our jurta, undetected. They didn't ask for anything. They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit. We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Ocean, Views, Sky

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.194, Penguin

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• She hugs me. It's tentative at first, a little scared, and yes, a little repulsed, but then she melts into it. She rests her head against my cold neck and embraces me. Unable to believer what's happening, I put my arm around her and just hold her. I almost swear I can feel my heart thumping. But it must just be hers, pressed tightly against my chest.

  Isaac Marion

  Heart, Hug, Necks

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• San: You all right? Virt: I think i crapped myself a little Sam: Just a little? you've got nerves of steel.

  Michael Grant

  Thinking, Steel, Nerves

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• Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first.

  Meg Cabot

  Order, Firsts, Dies

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• I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius.

  Kiersten White

  Genius, Undead

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• I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.

  William Carlos Williams

  Beautiful, Loyalty, Country

  William Carlos Williams (1954). “Selected Essays”, New York, Random House

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• There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is

  Gretchen Rubin

  Embrace, Happens

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• Hidan: Hey, look at that, it's my headband! You went to the trouble of picking it up and keeping for me? I'm touched. You're a pretty nice guy, Kakuzu, you knwo that? Kakuzu: Shut up. Let's go. Hidan: Let me put it on at least! Okay, I'm coming. Admit it, you like me a little, doncha? Kakuzu: Either you shut up, or I'll kill you. Hidan: Haha, you're embarrassed! I understand.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Nice, Guy, Looks

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• Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sweet, Children, Pain

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• You'll be alive', he pointed out. 'That's what matters. Enjoy what you have, every little detail of wherever you are. Don't focus on where you aren't.

  Richelle Mead

  What Matters, Focus, Details

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice”, p.125, Penguin UK

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• There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.

  Roland Smith

  Too Much, Fearful, Occasions

  Roland Smith (2005). “The Cryptid hunters”

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• It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Mean, Darkness

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