Serious Quotes - Page 14

• Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

  Toni Morrison

  Disability, Ifs

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

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• Only a real asshole takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Car, Liberty

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.148, Penguin

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• So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.” “Pansycake?” says Christina. “Dauntless slang.” Lynn smirks. “Supposed to be a huge insult, only no one uses it anymore.” “Because it’s so offensive,” says Uriah, nodding. “No. Because it’s so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?” “And a half,” he says.

  Veronica Roth

  War, Stupid, Thinking

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• When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Laughing, Looks, Absurd

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

  John Irving

  Suicide, Sorry, Crazy

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• I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head and her wet nose touching the face of every one with its petals of silk with its fragrance rising into the air where the bees, their bodies heavy with pollen hovered - and easily she adored every blossom not in the serious careful way that we choose this blossom or that blossom the way we praise or don't praise - the way we love or don't love - but the way we long to be - that happy in the heaven of earth - that wild, that loving.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Flower, Dark

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• You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.

  Howard Pyle

  Laughter, Thinking, Land

  Howard Pyle (2015). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.7, First Avenue Editions

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• At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

  David Nicholls

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• Don't be serious, be sincere.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Sincere

  FaceBook post by Chetan Bhagat from Nov 13, 2014

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• He shouldn't have said that," repeated Adrian, eerily serious. He leaned his face toward mine. "I don't care if he's not the emotional type or the complimentary type or what. No one can look at you in this dress, in all that fire and gold, and start talking about anachronisms. If I were him, I would have said, 'You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Emotional, Fire

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• It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kindness, World, Logic

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• Hey, Volusian, you haven't been checking me out, have you?" He gave me his trademark bland stare. "I assure you, mistress, the only allure your bare flesh has for me is to remind me how easy it will be to slice open." I laughed. If not for the fact he was actually serious, he'd be so much fun.

  Richelle Mead

  Fun, Mistress, Hey

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.200, Zebra Books

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• In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.

  Stephen Colbert

  Artist, America, Way

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• If anyone were to find out—” I began. Patch kissed me, hard, but with an amused glint in his eye. “If I get caught, it’ll mean the end of kissing you. Do you really think I’d risk that?” His face grew serious. “I know I can’t feel your touch, but I feel your love, Nora. Inside me. It means everything to me. I wish I could feel you the same way you feel me, but I have your love. Nothing will ever outweigh that. Some people go their entire lives never feeling the emotions you’ve given me. There is no regret in that.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Regret, Mean, Eye

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.1088, Simon and Schuster

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• You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you." He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. "Why? I'm all those things and more." I shook my head. Ian was more proud of his depravity than anyone I'd met, but if he helped me pull Bones out from under four bespelled vampires and one demonically-enchanced vamp, I'd shower him with prostitutes and porn while swearing he was an angel.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Angel, Vampire, Wicked

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• Raphael continued to stare at me, in no hurry to get started. "You know the best way to get rid of a demon, right?" He asked with a serious face. I caught Ivy rolling her eyes as I shook my head. "Exorcise alot!" Ivy caught my expression of dismay. "It's okay, Beth. He's famous for his bad jokes. We're still waiting for him to grow up." "And like Peter Pan, I hope to avoid that at all costs.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Growing Up, Eye, Expression

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• Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.

  Kate Morton

  Phones, Cities, Lines

  Kate Morton (2012). “The Secret Keeper”, p.272, Pan Macmillan

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• If you're really tired, I could put you to sleep," he said. "Tell you a bedtime story." She looked at him. "Are you serious?" "I'm always serious

  Cassandra Clare

  Tired, Sleep, Stories

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence of the African voice. Being part of that dialogue meant not only sitting at the table but effectively telling the African story from an African perspective - in full earshot of the world.

  Chinua Achebe

  Writing, Voice, Perspective

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.47, Penguin

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• What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Hero, Long

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• The guy behind the counter scratches his neck. “Are you being serious?” Her face is stoic. “Absolutely. I never kid about teddy bears.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Kids, Guy, Scratches

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Eye, Exercise, Views

  Martha C. Nussbaum (2010). “From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law”, p.16, Oxford University Press

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• Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

  Anais Nin

  Political, Gone, Innocence

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• Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked. I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different." "Isn't she Catholic?" Thomas asked. "Don't they have a guy?

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Men, Order

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Lovely, Answers

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