Sitting Quotes - Page 28

• When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]

  Simone Elkeles

  Attitude, Real, Eye

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Reading, Tired

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 1 (1865)

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• She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Waiting Rooms, Years

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• I cannot feel like a duchess in my mother’s sitting room.” “What do you feel like, then?” “Hmmm.” She took a sip of her tea. “Just Daphne Bridgerton, I suppose. It’s difficult to shed the surname in this clan. In spirit, that is.” “I hope that is a compliment,” Lady Bridgerton remarked. Daphne just smiled at her mother. “I shall never escape you, I’m afraid.” She turned to Gareth. “There is nothing like one’s family to make one feel like one has never grown up.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Tea, Rooms

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From across the water the old man pointed a bony finger at Percy and mouthed something like 'Don't even think about it.' "Did you see that?" Hazel asked. Percy's face was red in the sunset. "Yeah. I've been here before. I...I don't know. I think I was looking for my girlfriend." "Annabeth," Frank said. "You mean, on your way to Camp Jupiter?" Percy frowned. "No. Before that.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Sunset, Mean

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• But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Book, Reading, Impossible

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “In the Mountains”, p.12, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Writing, Positive Thinking

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

  Daniel Handler

  Money, Children, Eye

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• Damen is gorgeous. I know this without looking up. I just focus on my book as he makes his way toward me since I know way too much about my classmates already. So as far as I'm concerned, an extra moment of ignorance really is bliss. But according to the innermost thoughts of Stacia Miller sitting just two rows before me - Damen Auguste is totally smoking hot. Her best friend, Honor, completely agrees. So does Honor's boyfriend, Craig, but that's a whole other story

  Alyson Noel

  Book, Ignorance, Two

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

  Seth Godin

  People, Needs, Roles

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• When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.

  Jean Rhys

  Eye, Talking, Knowing

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• What did you do?” “Well, you see, there was this pot of tea, simply sitting there…” He trailed off. “Useful thing, tea,” commented Lyall thoughtfully.

  Gail Carriger

  Tea, Pot, Useful Things

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• One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Mistake, Waiting

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• I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Feels, Trapped, Knows

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.156, Random House

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• This isn't funny. She was almost killed.' 'I'm aware. You're waiting to see if I will get angry.' 'I already know you're angry. You're sitting very still and you're talking very quietly. You're getting ready to kill someone.' 'I just need a name.

  Derek Landy

  Talking, Names, Waiting

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• I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Stars, Writing, Dark

  Katherine Mansfield (1974). “The Letters of Katherine Mansfield”

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• Eve hugged her, hard. “It’s beautiful,” she said. “What happened to the old frosting?” Shane, sitting at the table, raised his hand. “Took one for the team.” “Jesus, you ate it? All of it?” “Nah.” He held up the bowl that was sitting in front of him. There was still about half a cup left. “Couldn’t finish it all.” Eve blinked and looked at Claire, who shrugged and said, “I always thought he was sweet.

  Rachel Caine

  Beautiful, Sweet, Jesus

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• I'm a what?" gasped Harry. "A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?

  J. K. Rowling

  Dad, Wizards, Hagrid

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• You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

  James Dashner

  Pigs, Benches, Next

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.131, Scholastic UK

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• I know, baby. I feel the same way about you. Those words never convey what goes through my mind and heart every time I look up and see you sitting in my house. Funny thing is, I always thought my house was full and that there was nothing missing in my life. I had a job I loved. Family who loved me. Good friends to keep me sane. Everything a human could want. And then I met an infuriating, impossible man who added the one thing I didn’t know wasn’t there.” – Tory “Dirty socks on the floor?” – Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Jobs, Dirty

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• It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Dream, Memories, Night

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.101, Penguin

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• You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.

  Janice Galloway

  Running, Thinking, Giving

  Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”

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• Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then."

  Lauren Oliver

  Swimming, Air, Water

  "Liesl & Po". Book by Lauren Oliver, September 29, 2011.

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• Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

  Markus Zusak

  Husband, Moving, Keys

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• As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have you seen my papa go by?" "M-m-m," said Pippi. "How did he look? Did he have blue eyes?" "Yes," said the girl. "Medium large, not too tall and not too short?" "Yes," said the girl. "Black hat and black shoes?" "Yes, exactly," said the girl eagerly. "No, that one we haven't seen," said Pippi decidedly.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Girl, Children, Eye

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