Ran Quotes - Page 20

• It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were just words, soundless, like print on a page. Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated. I curled over, pressing my face against the steering wheel and trying to breathe without lungs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Night, Knowing, Perfect

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• I've gotten thrown out of thirty-seven straight games,' he said. 'Once or twice, I've had to go really crazy. I ran onto the court with eleven seconds left once and stole the ball from the other team. It wasn't pretty. But, you know. I have a streak to maintain.

  John Green

  Crazy, Team, Games

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.54, Penguin

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• I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Fighting, Ideas

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.209, VM eBooks

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• Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Together, Twisted, Fitting

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child. "Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Children, Lying

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Sylvie and Bruno”, p.181, Lewis Carroll

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• If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Numbers, Squares

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• Stay here!" he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal. I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.

  Cate Tiernan

  Moments

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.123, Penguin

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• My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Book, Reading

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• WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.

  Larry McMurtry

  War, Blue, Pigs

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Hair, Water, Body

  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.309, e-artnow

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• He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had already been chosen for him, his only choice being whether or not to play his part with heart and courage. He ran because fate had placed him in a position of responsibility and he had accepted the burden. He ran because his self-respect required it. He ran because he loved his friends and this was the only thing he could do to end the madness that was killing and maiming them.

  Karl Marlantes

  Love, Running, Heart

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• I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen!" he squeaked and ran.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Queens, Mind, Foreigners

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.213, Hachette UK

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• Can I join you at lunch?" She paused. "You have every other day." He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. "Yes. But you resented it every other day." "What makes you think I won't resent it today?" "Hope. It's what I live on.

  Melissa Marr

  Song, Thinking, Lunch

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• Belgarath and Garion effortlessly hurdled over the driftwood and loped off into the fog. "It's going to be a wet day," Garion noted soundlessly as he ran alongside the great silver wolf. "Your fur won't melt." "I know, but my paws get cold when they're wet." "I'll have Durnik make you some little booties." "That would be absolutely ridiculous, Grandfather," Garion said indignantly.

  David Eddings

  Fog, Grandfather, Booty

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• We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you. And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn’t often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire club.

  Charlaine Harris

  Wall, Adventure, Vampire

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.59, Penguin

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• I ran to the children's room: their door was ajar, I saw they had never laid down, though it was past midnight; but they were calmer, and did not need me to console them. The little souls were comforting each other with better thoughts than I could have hit on: no parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk; and, while I sobbed, and listened. I could not help wishing we were all there safe together.

  Emily Bronte

  Children, Past, Doors

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• Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch

  James Howe

  Boys, Thinking, Trying

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• It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club

  Charlaine Harris

  Vampire, Clubs, Bondage

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• There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

  Ann Aguirre

  Fighting, Compassion, Knives

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.244, Macmillan

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• Aunt Petunia burst into tears. Hestia Jones gave her an approving look that changed to outrage as Aunt Petunia ran forward and embraced Dudley rather than Harry. 'S-so sweet, Dudders...' she sobbed into his massive chest. 'S-such a lovely b-boy...s-saying thank you...' 'But he hadn't said thank you at all!' said Hestia indignantly. 'He only said he didn't think Harry was a waste of space!' 'Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sweet, Love You, Thinking

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• There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding.

  Julia Golding

  Men, Mythical Creatures, Hiding

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• Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

  Virginia Woolf

  Darkness, Black, Tears

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• I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.

  John Muir

  Earthquakes, Feelings, Storm

  "John Muir and the March 26, 1872, Owens Valley Earthquake" by John Muir, projects.eri.ucsb.edu. 1872.

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• The faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock the doors of perception.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Beer, Doors, Perception

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.144, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at the nape of her neck again, and a strand had slipped loose onto her shoulder, gleaming in the lantern light. Suddenly all of his objections seemed meaningless. Don't, he thought. You'll regret it. He didn't care anymore. Slowly, unable to stop himself, he reached out and cupped his hand around her foot.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Regret, Feet, Light

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