Stuck Quotes - Page 37

• ...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest little desire to join the likes of Reverend Pelham at the dinner table for fourteen minutes, much less at the banquet table of Heaven eternally. Eternity is a mighty long time to be stuck with people who judge every word you say and think and condemn most of what you do. It struck me as pretty miserable company. And if Reverend Pelham was the kind of company God preferred to keep, well, I just hoped they'd be happy together.

  Katherine Paterson

  Christian, Thinking, Judging

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• Is there anything else you need from me?" Ranger asked. "Not right now." "There will come a time," Ranger said. "Let me know when." And he disconnected. I opened the freezer and stuck my head in to cool off. If there'd been any more innuendo in that conversation, I could have fried an egg on my forehead.

  Janet Evanovich

  Eggs, Needs, Conversation

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.215, Macmillan

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• I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, where on my knees I prayed for LIGHT, I prayed for l*i*g*h*t, and praying crawled like a blind slug into the web where threads of wind stuck against my mind and I died of pity for Man, for myself, on a cross without nails, watching in fear as the pig belches in his sty, farts, blinks and eats.

  Charles Bukowski

  Rain, Men, Wind

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• We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

  Douglas Adams

  Science, Technology, Want

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.117, Del Rey

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• Half way down, he encountered Saphira, who had jammed her head and neck as far up the stair as she could, gouging the wood in her frenzy. Little one. She flicked out her tongue and caught him on the hand with its rough tip. He smiled. Then she arched her neck and tried to pull back, but to no avail. What's wrong? I'm stuck. You're... He could not help it;he laughed even though it hurt. The situation was too absurd.

  Christopher Paolini

  Hurt, Hands, Half

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1007, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

  Carol Shields

  Pairs, Trunks, Buried

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• He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.

  Douglas Adams

  Hair, Mad, Arms

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.326, Pan Macmillan

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• The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

  Alan Lightman

  Happiness, Pain, Joy

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.42, Vintage

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• Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

  Alan Lightman

  Persons

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.42, Vintage

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• My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months she'd been gone, I felt like I'd been floating, loose and boundaryless, but now that I knew where she was, I kept waiting for a kind of certainty to kick in. It didn't. Instead, I was more unsure than ever, stuck between this new life and the one I'd left behind.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Knowing, Waiting

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

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• Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism in My Books?" If he didn't, then you could just be making all of this up. Does anyone really think this guy sat down and stuck all kinds of hidden meanings into his story? It's just a story.... But I think you are making all of this symbolism stuff up. I don't believe any of it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Believe, Book, Mean

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• Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look.

  John Grogan

  Dad, Cutting, Looks

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• At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.

  C. S. Lewis

  Flower, Boys, Men

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• Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones

  Mercedes Lackey

  Two, Voice, Somewhere Under

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• And she was good to me: strong, fun, and fiercely loyal. And if I didn't have many other friends because of her-most girls were intimidated by her looks, or thought she was too pushy, or just flat-out feared for their boyfriends-it never bothered me. I never missed having a wide, thick circle of girlfriends: Rina was more than enough. We were comfortable with each other's flaws and weaknesses, so we stuck together and kept to ourselves.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Strong, Fun

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.29, Penguin

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• We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Makeup, Islands, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.33, Random House

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• Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Daughter, School, Snow

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• Adam swore harshly. "New werewolves are dangerous, woman. Especially when they are cold and hungry." He looked at Mac, and his voice changed completely, the heat and anger gone, "Mercy, come here." I didn't look down to see what he'd noticed in Mac's face. I took a step, but Mac was wrapped around my left leg. I stopped before I fell. "Uhm. I'm a little stuck for the moment.

  Patricia Briggs

  Voice, Looks, Gone

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.48, Penguin

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• You wouldn't match Melanie and me up, and if we hadn't gotten stuck together as lab partners in junior high science, I doubt if we'd have matched us up either. I'm not sure why we even stuck, except that we each probably find the other to be entertaining...Besides I feel like it was a personal mission of mine to broaden Melanie's world, though I think she felt the same for me.

  Deb Caletti

  Thinking, Doubt, Together

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• Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart, in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it to feel love. Pain. Jealousy. Guilt. I wonder if it’s the same for people, lost in comas. Is there really such a thing

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Heart, Funny Things

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.

  Christopher Paolini

  Dark, Trying, Scare

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• You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sick, Unhappy, Alive

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the dictionary, next to the word stress, there is a picture of a midsize mutant stuck inside a dog crate, wondering if her destiny is to be killed or to save the world. Okay, not really. But there should be.

  James Patterson

  Dog, Stress, Destiny

  James Patterson (2005). “The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck

  Alison Croggon

  Thinking, Hawks

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• If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Ideas, Mind, Might

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