Terrible Quotes - Page 16

• Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Queens, Dark

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• You’re a terrible cook. That I’ll grant you. You can’t hold your liquor, either. And you have questionable taste in men. So no, you’re not perfect.” His voice sank to a husky whisper, and his gaze dropped to her mouth. “But you’re close. Close enough to restore a man’s faith in miracles.

  Tessa Dare

  Men, Voice, Perfect

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• Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

  John Green

  Communication, Errors, Talking

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• I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.

  Gayle Forman

  Thinking, Missing, Path

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.35, Penguin

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• There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible.

  Daniel Handler

  Water, Pieces, Knees

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• There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Sticks, Knows

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

  Ricky Gervais

  World, Jokes, Ifs

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless... and that's on a good day.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Good Day, Love Is, Clouds

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• It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ideas, Worst, Heard

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. You bear terrible thoughts; it is almost painful to be near you. At the same time it is enticing. Do you know why?

  Ingmar Bergman

  Limits, Flow, Bears

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• To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

  Kristin Hannah

  Love Is, Rest Of Your Life, Unbearable

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.191, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.

  Lauren Beukes

  War, Relentless, Loud

  "The Shining Girls". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2013.

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• I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood, Scare, Adults

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.

  Rick Yancey

  Dream, Fall, Night

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

  Anne Frank

  Sleep, Silence, Helping

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

  Stephen King

  Redemption, Want, Brooks

  "The Shawshank Redemption". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

  Wendell Berry

  Light, People, Shining

  Wendell Berry (2005). “Hannah Coulter: A Novel”, p.57, Counterpoint Press

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• You’re a terrible liar, Sage, but I’m still touched you’d attempt it for my sake. A for effort.

  Richelle Mead

  Liars, Effort, Sage

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.235, Penguin

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• For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sandman, Release, Ends

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• It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Numbness, Weather

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• Clary smiled at him with a warmth she didn’t feel. “Sebastian says I can come with you.” Jace raised his eyebrows. “Matching haircuts for everyone?” “I hope not,” said Sebastian. “I look terrible with curls.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eyebrows, Curls, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Mistake, Hero

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• Honey, I've watched a lot of 90210. The parents weren't even on the show once Brandon and Brenda went to college. This is your time - you're supposed to going to frat parties and getting back together with Dylan." "Why does everybody want me to go to frat parties?" "Who wants you to go to frat parties? I was just kidding. Don't hang out with frat guys, Cath, they're terrible. All they do is get drunk and watch 90210.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Party, College, Drunk

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm having a psychic moment. It involves you and me." Distracted, Gansey glanced up from the computer screen. "Were you talking to me or Ronan?" "Either. I'm flexible." Blue made a small, terrible noise. "I would appreciate if you'd turn your inner eye towards the water.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Talking, Psychics

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.168, Scholastic Inc.

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• In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Jobs, Blue, Feet

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