Upset Quotes - Page 16

• ...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Two, Long, Body

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.165, Scholastic Inc.

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• Being a homicide detective ca be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or later - after weeks or months - they go back to their everyday lives. For the closest family it takes longer, but for the most part, to some degree, they too get over the grieving and despair. Life has to go on; it does go on. But the unsolved murders keep gnawing away and in the end there's only one person left who thinks night and day about the victim: it's the office who is left with the investigation.

  Steig Larsson

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

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• When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Students, Anarchist, Found

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• From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Art, Book, Two

  Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Girl At The Lion d'Or”, p.83, Random House

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• He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.

  Kristin Hannah

  Heart, Cutting, Blood

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.157, Ballantine Books

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• I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

  Holly Black

  Sorry, Selfish, Want

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Careers, People, Understanding

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• Do you think my husband and his soldiers will be overly upset with me?" The priest broke into a wide grin. "I'll stand by your side when we find out," he said. "I would be honored to escort you to your husband." The priest took hold of Johanna's arm. She didn't notice. "I expect them to be a little upset at first," she explained. "But only just a little." "Yes," he agreed. "Tell me, lass. When was your last confession?" "Why do you ask?" "It's preferred to receive absolution before you meet your Maker.

  Julie Garwood

  Husband, Thinking, Your Side

  Julie Garwood (2011). “Saving Grace”, p.215, Penguin

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• Dear Alec, As your best friend and parabatai, I am offended not to have been asked to be your best man at the wedding. Et tu, Brutus. -Jace Alec , he really is upset. He hasn't washed his hair in three days. -Clary

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Hair, Three

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• I said, "Do you think she thinks it's me?" Jas said, "Well, it's pretty conclusive, isn't it? She said 'the most sniveling idiot I have ever come across.'" I said, "I didn't know that YOU have been seeing Masimo. Tom the Slug King is going to be very upset.

  Louise Rennison

  Kings, Thinking, Slugs

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• If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

  William James

  Law, White, Crow

  William James (1986). “Essays in Psychical Research”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." ... My mother taught Prim and me to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife. But I hate Effie Trinket's comment so much I make a point of eating the rest of my meal with my fingers. Then I wipe my hands on the tablecloth. This makes her purse her lips tightly together.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Couple, Hate

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• And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  People, Wicked, Closest

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2011). “Winter Solstice”, p.466, Macmillan

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• A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Girl, Mistake, Car

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• No one really needs me,” he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice...“I do,” I say. “I need you.” He looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin a long argument, and that's no good, no good at all, because he'll start going on about Prim and my mother and everything and I'll just get confused. So before he can talk, I stop his lips with a kiss.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Confused, Kissing

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• C'mon, you're gonna get upset sometimes. Breaking up is a shitty business. Someone always gets hurt. This time it happens to be you.

  Alexandra Potter

  Hurt, Sometimes, Be You

  Alexandra Potter (2012). “Going La La”, p.250, Hachette UK

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• What's wrong, little sis? You look upset." She could barely catch her breath. "Cracked...my...nail polish slapping your... worthless face. See?" She showed him her finger - just one of them. "Cute" He snorted.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cute, Littles, Faces

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Feelings, Once In A Lifetime

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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• I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Trying, World

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• Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time." -Hodge

  Cassandra Clare

  Frustration, People, Frustrated

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• And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

  John Green

  Perfect, Leaving, Finals

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.572, Penguin

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• Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Believe, Princess, Hair

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• As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Thinking, Dust, Choices

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We were at another funeral party. I wasn’t sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. No on killed themselves in summertime. It was rude.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Suicide, Party, Funeral

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “The Center of Winter: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being like that. It only makes people think bad of you.

  Sara Zarr

  Mother, Thinking, Yelling

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