These Days Quotes - Page 15

• I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.

  Ned Vizzini

  Running, Thinking, Littles

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• Free will...it's all the rage these days

  Lauren Kate

  Free Will, Rage

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• I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dream, Writing, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.402, Feiwel & Friends

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• Remember me for these days, not the old ones.

  Mitch Albom

  Remember, Remember Me

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• Is that why you came?' 'No, I came because I simply can't get enough of people looking down their noses at me. The girls at school are getting frightfully lax about it.' 'Are they? How remiss of them. We're taught from the cradle how to look down our noses, you know, we rich sons of bitches. Perhaps Westcliffe's curriculum is a tad too liberal these days.

  Shana Abe

  Girl, School, Son

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• The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. This guy had the same sandy hair and outdoorsy good looks. But it wasn't Luke. His smile was brighter and more playful. (Luke didn't do much more than scowl and sneer these days.) The Maserati driver wore jeans and loafers and a sleeveless T-shirt. "Wow" Thalia muttered. Apollo Is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.

  Rick Riordan

  Hair, Jeans, Guy

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• Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Lying, Believe, Essence

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• These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.

  David Nicholls

  Grief, Hands, Ice

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.365, Hachette UK

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• When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days, we spend our lives staring at screens twelve inches in front of us.

  Maria Semple

  Eye, Brain, Horizon

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

  Kate Morton

  Enough

  Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

  Danielle Steel

  Girl, Crazy, Real

  Danielle Steel (2010). “Big Girl”, p.378, Random House

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• Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Religious, Love Life, Ambition

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• By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Crushed, Clockwork Princess

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.967, Simon and Schuster

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• Just curious how much I'm going for these days," Leo said. "I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe...but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Two, Jason

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• I don't know what a guy needs to do to impress a girl these days.

  Jeff Kinney

  Girl, Guy, Needs

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 7)”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• He was full of the restless, dissatisfied energy that always seemed to move into his heart after he visited home these days. It had something to do with the knowledge that his parents’ house wasn’t truly home anymore — if it had ever been — and something to do with the realization that they hadn’t changed; he had.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Home, Heart

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.247, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days. Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.

  Richelle Mead

  Bed, Sydney

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.43, Penguin

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• But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

  Chris Colfer

  Writing, Mean, Connections

  Chris Colfer (2013). “The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• He lifted his eyes to the girl. She looked afraid. She always looked afraid, these days. The world was a scary place. She said: "Take me with you." He woke up.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Eye, Scary

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

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• A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?

  Derek Landy

  Skeletons, People, Doe

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• Love is . . .” An old memory with Adrian came back to me, and some of the turbulent emotion I always carried within me these days welled up in my chest. It was stupid, feeling so lovesick when he’d been gone less than a day, but I couldn’t get him or the ways he described love out of my head. “. . . a flame in the dark. A breath of warmth on a winter’s night. A star that guides you home.

  Richelle Mead

  Stars, Memories, Stupid

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.77, Penguin

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• I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

  Deborah Bull

  Dance, Thinking, Other Cultures

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• Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people vote these days, or turn up for political meetings, is that for the vast majority of us those rights have been fulfilled. These days it's in the adverts for mobile phones or foreign holidays where phrases like "Join the Revolution!" and "Cry Freedom!" are bandied about for a generation which knows nothing of their provenance. Just as now we have luxury illnesses to replace real ones, so now we have luxury politics.

  John Diamond

  Real, Holiday, Rights

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• I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Running, Struggle

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• It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, June, Weather

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.204, Princeton University Press

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