Twisted Quotes - Page 16

• The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dark, Tunnels, Long

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.471, Hachette UK

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• I know, I know. But I can always kill him later. This way, at least we get to humiliate him first.” Finn eyed me. “Sometimes I think you’re even more devious, twisted, and vicious than I am.” I grinned. “You only wish you could be as ruthless as me.” “Absolutely.

  Jennifer Estep

  Thinking, Wish, Way

  Jennifer Estep (2013). “Deadly Sting”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Cal ’s eyes reflected a weird combination of frenzy and fear as he twisted toward his father. “My God! She’s on her way to becoming the most famous physicist in the country, and she’sdumb as a post ! You arenot having your baby in this house! You’re having it at the county hospital!

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Country, Baby, Father

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• So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me--the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Happy Life, Knowing, Forever

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• That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

  David Levithan

  Heart, Mind, Strange

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• “Time-out,” I said... He twisted his hand around and wound his fingers into mine. “You‘re putting me in time-out?” “Yes,” I said as a shaky sigh slid through my lips. “If I don't go, do I get a spanking?”

  Darynda Jones

  Hands, Lips, Said

  "Second Grave on the Left". Book by Darynda Jones, August 2, 2011.

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• Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So, what are we supposed to do? Should we abandon knowledge? Throw away reason? In any event, that wouldn't be possible. For better or worse, we ate the fruit of knowledge long, long ago.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Pain, Long Ago, Broken

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• The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Skins, Rotten

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• She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

  Deborah Harkness

  Focus, Cameras, Lenses

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.60, Penguin

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• As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

  Tom Araya

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and balanced, diseased and whole, partial and complete, stingy and generous, twisted and straight, storm-tossed and quiescent, bound and free.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Strong, Healing, Mean

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• I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Ems, Done, Stuck

  Television interview with David Frost, 19 May 1977, in David Frost I Gave Them a Sword (1978) ch. 10

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• It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

  Naomie Harris

  Eye, Window To The Soul, Worry

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• Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment to realize what it was. Hope. It had been so long since I'd felt it that the sensation was like something living inside me, something wonderful waiting to break free, just like I was.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Long

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  We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

  Erykah Badu

  People, Black, Stories

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• How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

  Stephanie Perkins

  Emotion, French Kiss, Tied

  Stephanie Perkins (2010). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.333, Penguin

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• I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

  Russell Crowe

  Commitment, Matter, Villain

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• You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

  Jason Blum

  Falling In Love, Creative, Complicated

  "Producer Jason Blum on The Lazarus Effect, Paranormal Activity, and loving horror". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2015.

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• My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Mom, Weed, Sex

  "Shia LeBeouf Admits to Watching His Parents Have Sex". www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.

  Mark Jackson

  Basketball, Team, Mvp

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• Where, twisted round the barren oak,
  The summer vine in beauty clung,
  And summer winds the stillness broke,
  The crystal icicle is hung.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.8

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• I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mother, Dream, Law

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• No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

  Nora Roberts

  Second Chance, Wry Smile, Long

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Heart of the Sea”, p.93, Penguin

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• Fairly early in life, I noticed my brain was weird. By that I mean that I noticed it had a way of looking at normal things from a slightly twisted angle - just twisted enough that it often made me chuckle.

  Phil Vischer

  Mean, Brain, Way

  "Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables". Book by Phil Vischer, 2007.

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• Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fire, Together, Pieces

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