Mess Quotes - Page 22

• Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

  Kami Garcia

  Responsibility, Doe, Sometimes

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• I'm still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one's got it all together. I don't think you ever do get it totally together. Probably if you did manage to do it you'd spontaneously combust. I think that's a law of nature. If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Thinking, Law, Perfect

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• The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.

  Ann Voskamp

  Beautiful, Girl, Dog

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• Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?" "It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for the jaibreak." Tovar whistled."You don't mess aroud." P303

  Dan Wells

  Mother, Kira, Way

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• This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

  John Elder Robison

  Said

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• But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, somehow, not acute enough for them to know what to do with me, though I’m just enough of a mess to be driving everyone around me crazy.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Summer, Crazy, Merit

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What matters is the face you show the world, not the quaking mess behind it.

  Rachel Vincent

  What Matters, World, Faces

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Shadow Bound”, p.74, MIRA

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• Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.

  Patrick Ness

  Easy, Should, Bigs

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• Don’t you listen to them, Rexy,” I cooed, and the cat sniffed my nose. “Rachel is a smart girl. She’s not going to go out with a ghost no matter how sexy he is. She knows better. Jenkskie wenskie can just get bent.” I beamed at Jenks, and he made an ugly face. “Rache, put my cat down before you mess with her kitty brain.

  Kim Harrison

  Girl, Sexy, Smart

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• It’s as easy as we choose to make it,” he murmured, pressing his forehead to mine. “At least, this decision is. Nothing’s truly easy, Georgina. Love and life . . . they’re wonderful, but they’re hard. We may mess up again. We have to be strong and decide if we can still go forward, even when things aren’t perfect.

  Richelle Mead

  Strong, Life And Love, Perfect

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.266, Kensington Books

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• Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Running, Laughing So Hard, Giving

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.20, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Leave it to a man to mess things up

  Jodi Picoult

  Men

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You’re a mess. You’ve gone wrong somewhere pal.

  Irvine Welsh

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

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• Life’s a freaking mess… there’s not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It’s all a beautiful calamitous mess.

  Jandy Nelson

  Beautiful, Heart, Cacophony

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.156, Penguin

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• I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all.Caleb doesn't laugh,he doesn't pull away,he doesn't talk .. He just lets me be me. When I settle down,I lean back and witness the mess I've made on his shirt."I made ur shirt all gross," I say between sniffles. "Forget the shirt.What's going on? I could.nt understand a word you mumbled into my chest." Now I'm half laughing and half crying.

  Simone Elkeles

  Mom, Dad, Laughing

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Leaving Paradise”, p.201, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• I can try to disable it," I said, "but if I mess up, this whole apartment is going to fill with gas. We'll die." Thalia swallowed. " I trust you. Just... don't mess it up.

  Rick Riordan

  Trying, I Trust You, Said

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• Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Magic, Unseen

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.

  Nora Roberts

  Quinn

  Nora Roberts (2006). “The Quinn Brothers: 2-in-1”, p.126, Penguin

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• Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Years, Skins, Trying

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.11, Penguin

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• In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

  David Levithan

  Groundhog Day, Doors, Opposites

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I told her that I can't be doing with the Wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the icing on the cake... I've never liked wedding cake due to the amount of icing, but then imagine a wedding cake without it; just a dark, stodgy, horrible dry sponge. The icing covers up the mess, and that's how I feel about most of the Wonders. They use them to get people to visit a place that you probably wouldn't think about visiting.

  Karl Pilkington

  Dark, Thinking, Cake

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.131, Canongate Books

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• Your hair is a tangled mess,"he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane.

  Kim Harrison

  Thinking, Hair, Tangled

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• Do I look like a mess?” she asked. He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.

  Julia Quinn

  Looks

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• I do know that living in the past only messes up your present

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Past, Living In The Past, Knows

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• Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?

  J. K. Rowling

  Stars, Lying, Night

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.295, Hachette UK

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