Littles Quotes - Page 30

• Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.

  James M. Barrie

  Peter, Cleverness, Wendy

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• I found him in a Dumpster one day when he was a kitten and he promptly adopted me. Despite my struggles, Mister had been an understanding soul, and I eventually came to realize that I was a part of his little family, and by his gracious consent was allowed to remain in his apartment. Cats. Go figure.

  Jim Butcher

  Struggle, Cat, Understanding

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.61, Penguin

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• Pics or it didn't happen." "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.

  Rachel Caine

  Flames, Busy, Throwing

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.61, Allison & Busby

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• As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scares.

  Alex Garland

  Dream, Dope, Games

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• For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Self, Doubt, Acres

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

  Libba Bray

  Fighting, Caves, World

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.252, Scholastic Inc.

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• You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I’d vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn’t have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Home, Thinking, Years

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• Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

  Jane Austen

  Clever, Home, Blessing

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.2, MobileReference

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• Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.

  Tessa Dare

  Kissing, Thinking, Years

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• Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Writing, Ideas

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• I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mean, Rays, Demand

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.321, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It’s not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.

  Mira Grant

  Mind, Causes, Chaos

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• Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Blue, Sky

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.

  Terry Pratchett

  Heart, Men, Hands

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• Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia, I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe he's heard of America, and he dreams of living in this land of freedom and opportunity! Someday, I'd like to meet that little boy... and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin's Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.

  Bill Watterson

  Dream, Dad, Stupid

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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• ... until Miri could not help it any longer and she laughed out loud. The sound broke the game. Peder looked at her. He reached out, and she thought he meant to grab her straw or perhaps yank her hair as he used to when they were little. But her put his hand behind her head and, leaning forward, pulled her face to his. He kissed her. One long, slow kiss.

  Shannon Hale

  Kissing, Hair, Hands

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• My dear October, we are bound by an enchanted rose made from the hair of a Duchess, and my blood is covering your hand. You can learn anything you wish to know about me merely by licking you fingers." Tybalt laughed a little. "Yes, you may ask me a question.

  Mira Grant

  Hair, Blood, Hands

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• There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Smile, Mistake, Dancing

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.190, A&C Black

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• [...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

  Haruki Murakami

  World

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• Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

  Sarah Dessen

  Worry, Might, Today

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• It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can’t really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.

  Ally Carter

  Liars, People, May

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessed, Eye, People

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• What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused.

  Douglas Adams

  Confused, Men, Mind

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Reminders

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• the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Moving, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.21, Harper Collins

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