Made It Quotes - Page 11

• A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was struck by how good looking he was, in that accidental, doesn't-even-know-it kind of way. Which only made it worse. Or better. Or whatever. "Yup", he said, as if there'd been any doubt, "you're in there, all right." "I was warned, too,"I told him, as he stood up. "I just saw that sculpture, and I got distracted." "The sculpture?" He looked at it, then at me. "Oh, right. Because you know it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Doubt, Sculpture, Way

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.90, Penguin

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• There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn’t turn out half bad either.

  Vicki Pettersson

  Thinking, Childhood, Comforting

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• It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.

  Ann Brashares

  Voice, Effort, Perception

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.82, Delacorte Press

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• Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

  Seth Godin

  Photography, Art, Wall

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• Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heartbreak, Saying Goodbye, Thinking

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

  Andy Warhol

  Mother, Husband, Years

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To anyone else, Xavier's use of the word angel would have sounded like nothing more than a lovesick teenager professing his admiration. Only the two of us knew differently and now we both shared a secret- that brought us closer than ever. It was as if we had just sealed the bond between us, closed the gap, and made it final.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Teenager, Angel, Two

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.205, Feiwel & Friends

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• What's that?" "It looks like something from Linus... It is! He sent me a little birch-bark canoe from camp! He said he made it himself... Sometimes I think I don't deserve a nice brother like Linus..." "I have often thought the same thing." "Dear Linus, please send me another canoe. The first one broke when I threw it at Charlie Brown.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Brother, Nice, Thinking

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• the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

  Sara Zarr

  Past, Different, Up To You

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• She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Giving, Vapor

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to Queen Islanzadí, and a hundred different manners in which to greet those around you, if it’s not better to just remain quiet.” “With all your customs,” Eragon risked saying, “it seems as though you’ve only made it easier to offend people.” A smile flickered across her lips. “Perhaps.

  Christopher Paolini

  Queens, People, Different

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.799, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Science, Made

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Emotional

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.280, e-artnow

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• So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after we'd made it safely to the walkway and gone our separate ways to classes. How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if i fell, at least i wouldn't do it alone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Morning, Moving, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.136, Penguin

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• Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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• I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sexy, Witty, Party

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• She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.

  Nora Roberts

  Disappointment, Taken, Blow

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• There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.

  Kami Garcia

  Song, Choices, Lied

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• He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Sunshine, Weather

  Mark Twain (2008). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.98, Penguin

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• And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. There was no escape. The Spirit that made it was in it, shaping it and reshaping it, sometimes lying at rest, sometimes standing up and shaking itself, like a muddy horse, and letting the pieces fly.

  Wendell Berry

  Horse, Lying, Forever

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, p.98, Counterpoint Press

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• ‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!

  Bernard Cornwell

  Giving Up, Blood, Sea

  Bernard Cornwell (2009). “The Last Kingdom (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 1)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

  Luke Davies

  Bitterness, Resentment, Wonder

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.38, Penguin

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• I can see why you opted out of Knight training,” I countered. “They’d have ‘accidentally’ killed you before you made it to adulthood.

  Jenna Black

  Knights, Training, Made

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• What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.

  Ann Brashares

  Law, Agony, Way

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

  Hugh Prather

  Simple, Complicated, Made

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.159, Bantam

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