Sorry Quotes - Page 39

• Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Thinking, Feelings

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.82

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• Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Grief, Mean, Share

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Ashes”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

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• I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.

  John Lennon

  Religious, Jesus, Apology

  "Proof the Beatles are bigger than Jesus!" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Baby, Art, Jobs

  Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

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• ...she's leaving now. ... Janis attacks the back door of the school gym and finds herself in a heavy cloud of smoke. She realizes she's found the Goths' hangout. Who knew? "Oof," someone says. She keeps walking, muttering, "sorry" to whomever it was she hit with the flying door. *** Cabel: ... That was the Goth stage where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention the hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And, when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.

  Lisa McMann

  Girl, Dream, School

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• When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.

  Marisha Pessl

  Growing Up, Looks, Normal

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.216, Penguin UK

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• Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.

  Nick Hornby

  Couple, Regret, Kids

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• And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on.

  J. K. Rowling

  Goes On, Fairy Tale, Spokes

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• Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice. He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, "Sorry," and backed away. I took a step after him. I screamed, "I HAVE NOTHING!" And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, "See, I never had anything to start with.

  Charlaine Harris

  Voice, Nurse, Looks

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1432, Penguin

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• He put the box in Kahlan's lap. As she picked it up, she gave him the biggest smile he had ever seen. Before he even knew what he had done, he had leaned over and given Kahlan a quick kiss. Her eyes went wide, and she didn't kiss him back, but the feel of her lips shocked him into realizing what he had done. Oh. Sorry," he said. She laughed. "Forgiven.

  Terry Goodkind

  Eye, Kissing, Lap

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• And gears," said Anathema. "My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears." Crowley leaned over to the angel. "Oh lord, heal this bike," he whispered sarcastically. "I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.

  Terry Pratchett

  Angel, Gears, Lord

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• Do you think you could put that boot back on?" he added mildly. "The window can only let in a limited ammount of fresh air and your socks are a tough ripe, to put it mildly." Oh, sorry!" said Horace, tugging the riding boot back on over his sock. Now that Halt mentioned it, he was aware of a rather strong odor in the room.

  John Flanagan

  Strong, Thinking, Air

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• I'm sorry. (Valerius) It's okay. We all have scars. I'm just lucky most of mine are on the outside. (Tabitha)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lucky, Scar, Okay

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• We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his father, peering blandly over gold-rimmed glasses. "That your foot, Lenny?

  Diana Gabaldon

  Father, Son, College

  Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.2395, Dell

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• Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

  Jodi Picoult

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Mean

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.

  John Green

  Real, Knows, Hard

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• What you should really be sorry for," he continued, "is that for the rest of my life, I'll have to avoid wine cellars to keep from thinking about you." "Why? Was kissing me that bad?" A devil-solf whisper. "No sweetheart. It was that good.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Wine, Thinking About You, Kissing

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• When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes closed now, but I just can't get over this craving for krill." He shrugged. "And I feel sorry for the whale that got my brain. Probably swimming around Florida now trying to catch glimpses of girls in bikinis.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Smart, Eye

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• Um, Bella? You've got a huge cut on your forehead, and it's gushing blood," he informed me. I clapped my hand over my head. Sure enough, it was wet and sticky. I could smell nothing but the damp moss on my face, and that held off the nausea. Oh, I'm so sorry, Jacob." I pushed hard against the gash, as if I could force the blood back inside my head. Why are you apologizing for bleeding?" he wondered as he wrapped a long arm around my waist and and pulled me to my feet.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Cutting, Blood, Hands

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• I wronged him, Katra. Greatly. I had the entire world in my hand at one time and I didn’t know it. I let stupidity blind me and I lost him because of that. (Artemis) Then tell him you’re sorry. (Kat) As your father would say, there are some things ‘sorry’ can’t repair. Some pains run too deep to ever be healed by something as simple as words, no matter how much you mean them. (Artemis)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Pain, Father

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• Matt. I didn't think they'd kill you... I'm so sorry.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Thinking, I'm So Sorry

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• I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Taken, Eye, Years

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• I didn’t know I could do that. I mean I knew I could do that before, but I didn’t know it was actually working now until you screamed. I thought I was just imagining it. And don’t give me that look…sorry? (Xypher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Giving, Looks

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.203, Macmillan

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• Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?' Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don't let that worry you, Mr Lipspick. Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha!' Ha ha,' agreed Moist. Ha hah hah!,' said Hubert. 'Hahahahahaha!! Ahahahahahahhhhh!!!!!-' Bent slapped him on the back. Hubert coughed. Sorry about that, it's the air down here,' he mumbled.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Light, Air

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• i'm sorry she never got her miracle. she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Miracle, I'm Sorry

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