Staying Quotes - Page 9

• It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.

  Jay Asher

  School, Needs, Answers

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.17, Penguin

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• His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that...that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.

  Jay Asher

  Sorry, Thinking, Doors

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• Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.

  Patrick Ness

  Mean, Cuz, Fingers

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• You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Running, Grandmother, Night

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Fleeing, World, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

  Bill Bryson

  Powerful, Beer, Eight

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• My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Father, Stupid

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.35, Penguin

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• Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Growing Up, Sheep, Leaving

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.290, Random House

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• One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dream, Morning, Book

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interview with Peter H. Stone, www.theparisreview.org. 1981.

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• Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

  Neal Shusterman

  Alive, Toilets, Said

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

  Robert Jordan

  Alive, Remember, Said

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.739, Macmillan

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• He's been in love with Miss Gina since high school, but he doesn't really know how to talk to girls, so he's just been...staying around her since then. He just tends to go where she goes." "Isn't that stalking?" Jazza said. "Legally, no," I replied. "I asked my parents this when I was little. What he does is creepy and socially awkward, but it's not actually stalking.

  Maureen Johnson

  Girl, School, Parent

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.37, Penguin

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• Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him

  Abbi Glines

  Hate, Alive, May

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.65, Abbi Glines

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• It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.

  Kiera Cass

  Serious, Problem, Away From You

  Kiera Cass (2013). “The Elite”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four." He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.

  Pittacus Lore

  Jobs, Hands, Numbers

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• And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because it is more important to capture moments like this, keen shifts in mood, sudden veering of direction - than to lose it in slumber.

  Sylvia Plath

  Friday, Night, Important

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.153, Anchor

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• The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Crow

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• We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.” Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A very hard fall. ”As long as we’re together,” she said. She heard Nico and Hazel still screaming for help. She saw sunlight far, far above- maybe the last sunlight she would ever see. Then Percy let go of his ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.

  Rick Riordan

  Letting Go, Fall, Hands

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• I jerked my chin toward Frost’s body. ‘All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.’ Hao said, “Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.” Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment.

  Patricia Briggs

  Men, Said Life, Evil

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• There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

  Nora Roberts

  Disgrace, Behinds, Right Thing

  Nora Roberts (2012). “Rebellion & In From The Cold: The MacGregors”, p.158, Penguin

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• Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

  Meg Rosoff

  Alive, Staying Alive

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• I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING

  Rick Yancey

  Running, 5th Wave

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.103, Penguin

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• I'd realized then just how strong our connection was, how perfectly we understood each other. I'd been skeptical about people being soul mates in the past, but at that moment, I knew it was true. And the emotional connection had come a physical one. Dimitri and I had finally given in to the attraction. We'd sworn we never would, but... well, our feelings were just too strong. Staying away from each other had turned out to be impossible. ~Rose, Pg.74

  Richelle Mead

  Strong, Emotional, Past

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, War

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• Love says: I’ve seen the ugly parts of you, and I’m staying.

  Matt Chandler

  Ugly

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