Mess Quotes - Page 20

• A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Soon Enough, Magic, Looks

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.685, Bantam

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• Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside.

  Lisi Harrison

  Crush, Girl, Flirting

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• Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace "never" with "always".

  Mira Grant

  Stories, Tabloids, Lasts

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.268, Hachette UK

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• There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

  Anne Lamott

  Touching, Trying, Looks

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.190, Anchor

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• Eric understands that the world is rarelythe way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Waiting, World

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

  Elizabeth Hay

  Belief, Ability, Wells

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• I'll be your mess,you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas masks,gloves,to keep us safe But now i'm alone in an empty room Staring down immaculate doom "Messy

  Gayle Forman

  Empty Rooms, Gloves, Safe

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jul 15, 2015

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• If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

  Francine Pascal

  Want, Ready, Mess With Me

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• We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Couple, Divorce

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• There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Hair, Going Away, Lips

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• You're Bes, I guess?" I said. "Yes," he said. "Your car's a mess," Liz muttered. "If one more person rhymes," Emma grumbled, "I'll throw up.

  Rick Riordan

  Car, Liz, Emma

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.100, Penguin UK

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• Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

  T. S. Eliot

  New Beginnings, Feelings, Trying

  East Coker (1940) pt. 5

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• You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Night

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless.

  Robertson Davies

  Self, Doubt, Important

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• Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you can call it fiction 'Cause I like being submerged in your contradictions, dear 'Cause here we are, here we are Although you were biased, I love your advice Your comebacks they're quick and probably Have to do with your insecurities There's no shame in being crazy depending on how you take these Words they're paraphrasing this relationship we're staging And it's a beautiful mess, yes, it is It's like we're picking up trash in dresses

  Jason Mraz

  Beautiful, Hurt, Crazy

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• I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.

  John D. MacDonald

  Glitter, Maintaining, Structure

  John D MacDonald (1985). “Deep Blue Goodbye”, Fawcett

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• Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Real, Boys, Want

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.120, Penguin

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• I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. "When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence." The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. "What did it feel like?" he asked in a low voice. "Like...coming home," I admitted.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Home, Night, Wind Blowing

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• Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.

  Gail Carriger

  Pain, Husband, Soul

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• That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.

  Eric Weiner

  Past, Way, Likes

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• but it's not always as set as that. Some things, though, feel like they're right. You and me? It's one of those things. I don't know why they see or why things are such a mess, but in the middle of it all, I do know that being around you is one of tue best things that happened to me in, well, ever.

  Melissa Marr

  Middle, Wells, Feels

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• My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.

  Jon Richardson

  Sight, Games, Tables

  Jon Richardson (2011). “It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• The last time I went back to a girl's house for an impromptu house party I spent most of the night straightening out rugs, putting down coasters and alphabetising DVDs while all around me people got off with whoever was closest and gradually headed off to various rooms to make more mess, no doubt.

  Jon Richardson

  Girl, Party, Night

  Jon Richardson (2011). “It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle.He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?

  Jonathan Stroud

  Fashion, Eye, Self

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• Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

  Maureen Johnson

  Attention, Pay, Complicated

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.165, Penguin

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