Thrown Quotes - Page 38

• I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

  Suzanne Collins

  Couple, Hate, Fighting

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

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• The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

  Alice Hoffman

  Stars, Sky, Purple

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.76, Penguin Group

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• As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.

  David Nicholls

  Pain, Tennis, Balls

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

  David Mitchell

  London, Pavement, Rooms

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.44, Random House

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• You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Art, Stupid

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• I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting to think I could have put almost any young man in my retinue on a white horse and they would have thrown flowers at him instead. It was not me they cared about, only what I meant to them: a cessation of hostilities, a chance for prosperity, food on the table.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Horse, Cheer, Flower

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• Charlie Brown: "Life is just too much for me... I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared..." Linus: "What did you want... A chance to warm up first?"

  Charles M. Schulz

  Confused, Thinking, Want

  "Peanuts". Comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, www.gocomics.com. September 9, 1959.

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• I've gotten thrown out of thirty-seven straight games,' he said. 'Once or twice, I've had to go really crazy. I ran onto the court with eleven seconds left once and stole the ball from the other team. It wasn't pretty. But, you know. I have a streak to maintain.

  John Green

  Crazy, Team, Games

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.54, Penguin

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• You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-

  Connie Willis

  Dog, War, Lying

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.16, Bantam

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• We meet. We always meet, somehow we're always thrown together, no matter where I go, no matter how I try to distance myself from you. It never matters. You always find me.

  Lauren Kate

  Distance, Trying, Together

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.254, Delacorte Press

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• Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Heart, Brave, Littles

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1624, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Connections, Use

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.121, Penguin

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• Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Fall, Wrestling, Fate

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• Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.

  Frances Hardinge

  Revenge, Distance, Dishes

  "Twilight Robbery". Book by Frances Hardinge, 2011.

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• All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Sea, Land

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.100, Wildside Press LLC

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• The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the [dog] under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death.

  Brigham Young

  Dog, Men, Disease And Death

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• ...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette

  Jeaniene Frost

  Majesty, Baggage, Pounds

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• We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

  Elie Wiesel

  Loneliness, Break Through, Bridges

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• It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Letting Go, Pain, Views

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.907, Penguin

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• It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Rope, Enough, Chasms

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.640, Scholastic Inc.

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• That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.

  Lev Grossman

  Children, Games, Bullshit

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.566, Penguin

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• I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I do nothing but doubt the latter's. It's not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that?

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Doubt, Survival

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

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• Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baseball, Eye, Skulls

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heart, Elephants, Waiting

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.165, Macmillan

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• We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Together, Stardust

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.162, Macmillan

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