Used To Be Quotes - Page 39

• I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal.

  Jo Walton

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.169, Macmillan

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• It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Eye, Serious, Used

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

  Nora Ephron

  Thinking, People, Parent

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Sep 18, 2016

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• Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Long, People, Together

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.50, Bantam

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• We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

  Tony Judt

  Political, Answers, World

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.11, Penguin

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• Love me?” Madeline asked with a faint smile. “It used to be love.” He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there's no word for it.” “You once told me that you thought love was a weakness.” “I was wrong,” he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. “I've discovered it's my only strength.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kissing, Weakness, Mouths

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• Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.

  Ilona Andrews

  Song, Wall, Rip

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.168, Penguin

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• What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Kids, Cracks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Apparently, it used to be extremely common for families to have two parents. They stayed together because that’s what all the other parents did. Now there are so many options, so many different ways to be a family. So many ways to rip a family apart.

  Susane Colasanti

  Rip, Two, Parent

  Susane Colasanti (2013). “So Much Closer”, p.88, Scholastic UK

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• I used to be someone.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Used

  Mary E. Pearson (2012). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5”, p.5, Macmillan

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• When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

  Neil Gaiman

  Angel, Remember, Lucifer

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• She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell in the way you couldn't smell your own; it was too familiar. But tonight she could. This was some living part of Tibby still here and she held on to it. There was more of Tibby with her here and now than in what she had seen in the cold basement room that day.

  Ann Brashares

  Smell, Bags, Tonight

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.54, Random House

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• That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.

  Eric Weiner

  Past, Way, Likes

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• People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Pain, People, Tragedy

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.191, Penguin

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• It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we’re living in such different worlds, I don’t know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he’s been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Liars, Thinking, Night

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I don’t know what’s happened to you. You used to be such a nice girl. Now you’ve gone all stabby and whatnot.

  Devon Monk

  Girl, Nice, Gone

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.

  Lynne Truss

  Expression, Cia Agents, People

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• And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.

  Han Nolan

  Parent, Say Anything, Littles

  Han Nolan (2011). “Pregnant Pause”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.

  Darren Shan

  Real, Kids, Past

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• I love you.” His voice was straightforward, affectionate. “You make me remember who I used to be. You make me want to be that man again. Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together. I’m yours, if you’ll have me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Love You, Men, Odds

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.1093, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to be so good at that kind of thing," Skulduggery said quietly. "Well, my morale is certainly boosted," Valkyrie informed him. "Really?" "god no. That was terrible

  Derek Landy

  Kind, Used, Said

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• I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.

  Derek Landy

  Heart, Used, Crosses

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• Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That’s how his mind felt—like his missing memories were aching.

  Rick Riordan

  Pain, Memories, Missing

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• You've certainly mellowed out... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive want will destroy anyone, but those same desires are necessary to understand what it means to be human. Why did you rid yourself of them?

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Fun, Mean, Pride

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• You have many flaws, he announced... “But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison.” “Was?” she asked. “I don't have this flaw any longer?” “No, you don't.” “Pray tell,” she muttered in exasperation, “what was this terrible flaw?” He grinned. “You used to be English.

  Julie Garwood

  Imperfection, Praying, Flaws

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