Over It Quotes - Page 31

• The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.

  Mira Grant

  Winning, Should Have, Zombie

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• Rachel, you summon demons. You’re good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It’s not going to go away.

  Kim Harrison

  Going Away, Demon, Get Over

  Kim Harrison (2010). “White Witch, Black Curse”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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• You get through it, you just never get over it

  Jodi Picoult

  Get Over

  Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

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• I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever.

  Judy Blume

  Hurt, Believe, Thinking

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• Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off

  Augusten Burroughs

  Home, Creativity, Light

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• You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think: "Not bad, they're okay," and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it; and they just — and they turn into something so beautiful.

  Steven Moffat

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Amy Pond". "Doctor Who" ("The Girl Who Waited"), www.imdb.com. September 10, 2011.

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• It’s really over, isn’t it?” He laughed and pulled me into his lap. “That’s the beauty of it all. Nothing’s over. It’s just a new start.

  Kiersten White

  Lap, New Start, Laughed

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• Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

  Neal Shusterman

  Teenage, Rebellion, Get Over

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Sanzo to Gojyo: And give me my gun back. I don't want your idiocy getting all over it.

  Kazuya Minekura

  Gun, Giving, Want

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• Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one’s own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Thinking, Destiny, Use

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• As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

  David Levithan

  Sickness, Moments, Trade

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.161, Egmont UK

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• But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.

  Lucy Christopher

  Winning, Years, Hundred

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.200, Scholastic Inc.

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• When he held her that way, she felt so happy that it disturbed her. After he left, it would take her hours to fall asleep, and then when she woke up she would feel another onrush of agitated happiness, which was a lot like panic. She wished she could grab the happiness and mash it into a ball and hoard it and gloat over it, but she couldn't. It just ran around all over the place, disrupting everything.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Fall, Balls, Panic

  Mary Gaitskill (2012). “Because They Wanted To: Stories”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.

  Susan Mallery

  Rip, Heart, Lines

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• .. then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Hurt, Loneliness

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• It has to be admitted that, in a sneaking way, although he hated the discomfort of seasickness, once he was over it, he enjoyed the attention and sympathy that it created among attractive young women like Evanlyn and Alyss. And he liked the fact that Will tended to walk on eggshells around him when the problem was mentioned. Keeping Will off balance was always desirable. ~Halt

  John Flanagan

  Balance, Attention, Way

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• I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.

  Anderson Cooper

  Liars, Scare, Want

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• It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Way, Tomorrow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could marry. We could drive off to the West Coast. We could start over. It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known.

  Junot Diaz

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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• She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like not being able to walk?" Zeke is quiet for a few seconds. His eyes shift over my face, and he squints, as if weighing and measuring me. Then he turns and bends and wraps his arms around me. it's been so long since someone hugged me that I stiffen. Then I relax, and let the gesture force warmth over my body.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Eye, Long

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• You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

  Junot Diaz

  Love, Years, Two

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• Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet when we do not grasp that God is present in pain, we eventually insist on victory or, worse, blame the sufferer for not "getting over it" fast enough. This is more than a failure to extend compassion; it's an exercise in cruelty.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Pain, Grief, Exercise

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.77, David C Cook

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• Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.

  Taylor Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

  Junot Diaz

  Over You, Matter, Willpower

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• If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Bridges, Rivers

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