Staying Quotes - Page 8

• There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Night, Thinking

  "The greatest Lemony Snicket quotes ever" by Heather Sandlin, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2015.

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• In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Reality, Voting

  "Up, Simba!". Essay by David Foster Wallace, September 2000.

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• Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Funny, Children, Teaching

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

  John Marsden

  Dream, Alive, Staying Alive

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Running, Psych, Creating

  "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• Who else is going?" I asked. He shrugged. "Just you and me." My mood promptly shot up past 'cheerful' and went straight to 'estatic.' Me and Dimitri. Alone. In a car. This might very well be worth a surprise test. "How far is it?" Silently, I begged for it to be a really long drive. Like, one that would take a week. And would involve us staying overnight in luxury hotels. Maybe we'd get stranded in a snowbank, and only body heat would keep us alive. "Five hours" "Oh." A bit less than I'd hoped for. Still, five hours was better than nothing. It didn't rule out the snowbank possibility, either.

  Richelle Mead

  Past, Luxury, Car

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• Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

  Kate Atkinson

  Rocks, Self, Cells

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open while knowing full well it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell.

  David Rakoff

  Lonely, Mean, Kissing

  FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Nov 09, 2015

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• Sleep, my love," He whispered, smoothing her long hair, lifting the damp locks away from the back of her neck. "I'll be here to watch over you." "You sleep too," she said groggily, her hand creeping to the center of his chest. "No." McKenna smiled and pressed a soft kiss against her temple. His voice was husky with wonder. "Not when staying awake is better than anything I could find in a dream.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Sleep, Kissing

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• I felt like I was watching the transfomation of two people: Victor to wolf, and Cole to someone else. I was the only one here, staying the same.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Two, People, Felt

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• Adrian sighed. "I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.

  Richelle Mead

  Too Good To Be True, Trouble, Being True

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.195, Penguin

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• She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.

  J.R. Ward

  Winning, Littles, Felt

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.216, Penguin

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• Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Opposites, Games, Alive

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• I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in front of the mirror, and Ron wasn't going to stop him. That third night he found his way more quickly than before. He was walking so fast he knew he was making more noise than was wise, but he didn't meet anyone. And there were his mother and father smiling at him again, and one of his grandfathers nodding happily. Harry sank down to sit on the floor in front of the mirror. There was nothing to stop him from staying here all night with his family. Nothing at all.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Mother, Father

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• The real thinkers of the world aren't the best dressed. Staying on top of the latest fashions, accessorizing, and presenting oneself is time consuming. It takes a lot of effort, energy and concentration to be incessantly happy and perfectly groomed. You meet somebody like that- ask yourself what they're running from.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Running, Fashion, Real

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.48, Delacorte Press

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• Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hurt, Tired, Past

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• Leopardstar says that they're staying with us so the Clans can exchange training methods and fighting techniques, but I don't see much sign of it. All they do is watch....It's like they're learning all about us, all our secrets and weaknesses. That's why I came over here, to get away from them for a bit.

  Erin Hunter

  Fighting, Secret, Training

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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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• I'm staying," Henry said, annoyed. "Why?" "Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.

  Lisa Lutz

  Two, People, Annoyed

  Lisa Lutz (2008). “Curse of the Spellmans: Document #2”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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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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• For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.

  Paul Auster

  Commitment, Space, Offering

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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  The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Alive, Criminal Mind

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.440, Bantam Classics

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• Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can - working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Mean, Exercise

  "Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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• Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit. Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Mean, Angel, Godly

  "Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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• You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Reason

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.195, Penguin

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