Odd Quotes - Page 12

• I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own.

  Avi

  Mother, Father, Taken

  Avi, (2004). “The Crispin: Cross of Lead”, Hyperion

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• …Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mean, Usual, Normalcy

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, Brain, Purpose

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man Who Japed”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

  Baroness Orczy

  Men, Ties, Dear

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• Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.

  Michel Foucault

  Opposites, Promise, Principles

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.96, Vintage

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• I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Numbers, Perfectly Good, Gold

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• -I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Trying, Odd Things, Invisible

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• Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

  Christopher Moore

  Loneliness, Broken, Life Is

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Fool”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas

  Dean Koontz

  Wife, Secret, World

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• Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

  Louisa May Alcott

  Expression, Macs

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.1617, Delphi Classics

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• How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.

  Timothy Zahn

  Voting, Black, Democracy

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• And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dad, Thinking, Voice

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• Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts.

  Ilona Andrews

  Nuts, Aberration, Pins

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.45, Penguin

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• I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No... one... would... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Odds, People

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• He shook me, and despite it being one-handed, it made my teeth rattle. “If anything like that ever happens again. You. Leave. Me. Behind. Do you understand?” I would have argued, but I was feeling a little shocky for some reason. “I’m not good at abandoning people,” I finally said. A front-desk person scurried over, first-aid kit in hand, but Pritkin snarled at the poor guy and he quickly backed up a step. “Then get good at it!” He stomped off, limping, one shoulder hanging at an odd angle. “You’re welcome,” I murmured.

  Karen Chance

  Hands, People, Guy

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• It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.

  Dodie Smith

  Thinking, House, Different

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.172, Random House

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• No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Unique, Profound, Pills

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.869, Oxford University Press

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• I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Daughter, Names, People

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound.

  Dean Koontz

  Fighting, Employment, Forks

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• Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

  Jane Austen

  Dancing, Together, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2007). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.94, Bethany House

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• Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went to a part of heaven we didn't share. I missed her then, but it was and odd sort of missing because by then I knew the meaning of forever. I could not have what I wanted most: Mr. Harvey dead and me living. Heaven wasn't perfect. But I came to believe that if I watched closely, and desired, I might change the lives of those I loved on Earth.

  Alice Sebold

  Believe, Perfect, Forever

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• I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I know I am. Perhaps tomorrow I will become entirely miserable at the thought that he doesn't love me back - may, even, care for Remy- but at this precise moment I am succumbing to euphoria. My head and stomach feel quite odd.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Believe, Flower, Pigs

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.210, A&C Black

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• . . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.

  Muriel Barbery

  Despair, Moments, Elsewhere

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• What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Coat was a long while in answering. "I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Thinking, Long, Confusion

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• You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Real, Moments

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