Sweet Quotes - Page 13

• There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing." Ranger

  Janet Evanovich

  Rangers, Sweet Things

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• You're probably gonna find this hard to believe, but I was sort of weird when I was a kid." Salvatore "Sally" Sweet

  Janet Evanovich

  Believe, Kids, Hard

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• Don't worry, fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans.

  Martin Millar

  Worry, Doubt, Fairy

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• The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.

  Charles Baxter

  Mistake, Made, Worst

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.31, Vintage

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• There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

  John Steinbeck

  Stupid, Heart, Cities

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

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• But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.

  Henry Miller

  Littles, Chance, Life Is

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Memories, Real, Lying

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.219, Harper Collins

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• White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.

  E. Lockhart

  Dark, White, Guy

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• I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous of God.

  Yann Martel

  Girl, Jealous, Dark

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.80, Canongate Books

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• Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Memories, Too Much, Dead Ends

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.498, Simon and Schuster

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• That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.

  Janet Fitch

  Memories, Bitter, Forget

  Janet Fitch (2006). “Paint It Black: A Novel”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.

  Marisha Pessl

  Epic, Greek, Quirky

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.84, Penguin

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• Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

  George R. R. Martin

  Love Is, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.323, Bantam

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• She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Giving, Mad, Promise

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it’s lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness—it’s still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you.

  Dean Koontz

  Forever, Promise, Littles

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.213, Bantam

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• O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Past, Men

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The hunt isn't sustaining me. It's flowing blood that I really crave. The sweet taste of red succulent liquid mixing with the salt of my beloved as it drips and dances on his flesh. To know that someone will ache for me as much as I hunger for him and eternally satiate each other. I want someone to satisfy my hunger forever.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Blood, Forever, Mixing

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• ...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. Beauty grown sad with its eternity Made you of us, and of the dim grey sea. Our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait, For God has bid them share an equal fate; And when at last defeated in His wars, They have gone down under the same white stars, We shall no longer hear the little cry Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Stars, War, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.123, Penguin

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• Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Country, Home, Heart

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we'd have an accident in the rain. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.

  Denis Johnson

  Rain, Names, Voice

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• I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Nice, Believe, Book

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.36, e-artnow

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• Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you. Silena: Awww . . . Percy, that is so sweet! Annabeth: Shut up, Silena.

  Rick Riordan

  Annabeth, World, Shut Up

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• The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

  Jon Krakauer

  Light, Desert, Shapes

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Blow, Moon

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.24, Penguin

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• Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.

  Kay Ryan

  Country, Two, Important

  Kay Ryan (2007). “The Niagara River: Poems”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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