Waking Quotes - Page 21

• I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.

  Lauren Kate

  Hurt, Love You, Self

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.502, Delacorte Press

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• Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.

  Joan Bauer

  Teenager, Night, Thinking

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• Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Knowing, Long, Wake Up

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Country, Couple, Ignorance

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• He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

  William Golding

  Life, Memorable, Feet

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.101, Penguin

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• The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Fades

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• She didnʹt know if she could carry on by herself, but then, she realized that if this wasnʹt a dream—and dear God, did it feel real—there was no magic ʺstopʺ in real life. If she couldnʹt deal with loneliness in a dream, she never would be able to while waking.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Real, Loneliness

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• . . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just to have happen. laughing with somebody till the tears run down your cheeks. waking up to the first snow. being in bed with somebody you love... whether you thank god for such a moment or thank your lucky stars, it is a moment that is trying to open up your whole life. If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. if you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your soul.

  Frederick Buechner

  Running, Stars, Crazy

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

  Mark Nepo

  Hands, World, Fists

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• Wake me up Wake me up, you said But I was sleeping, too I was dreaming But now I"m waking up Still waking up I can see the sun

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, Sleep, Wake Up

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.715, Scholastic Inc.

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• WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

  Jack Gilbert

  Morning, Lying, Twilight

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.354, Knopf

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• Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Sleep, Two, Wake Up

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• She wanted an Angel of Music . . . an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of Doom for the khanum. There was no reason in the world why I could not be the Angel of Music for Christine. I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her . . . But I could be her angel' -Erik

  Susan Kay

  Real, Believe, Angel

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• I love you, too... I won't ever leave you again. I promise. I kept that promise. For love him I did. For nearly two years I spent almost every waking hour with him. Until he was taken from me. But I never left him. And I never will.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Love You, Taken, Years

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.246, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and no one would see you, I spun that secret thread Where the dew you mused on Slid down to pitchers Tended by a word that reached no one’s heart. There you first fully entered the name that is yours, you stepped to yourself on steady feet, the hammers swung free in the belfry of your silence, things overheard thrust through to you, what’s dead put it’s arm around you too, and the three of you walked through the evening. Render me bitter. Number me among the almonds

  Paul Celan

  Heart, Eye, Names

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• Rose once told me about this poem she’d read. There was this line, ‘If your eyes weren’t open, you wouldn’t know the difference between dreaming and waking.’ You know what I’m afraid of? That someday, even with my eyes open, I still won’t know.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Eye, Differences

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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• I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

  Lauren Oliver

  Prayer, Fall, Tired

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Sleep, Dark

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.527, Bantam

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• Still, waking up this early was just wrong. “Why can’t people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?” I whined.

  Diana Rowland

  People, Wake Up, Eleven

  Diana Rowland (2011). “My Life as a White Trash Zombie: A White Trash Zombie Novel”, p.45, Penguin

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• Have you slept yet?' 'Sure. I took a power nap on the way over.' 'Didn't you drive there?' 'Yeah. Other drviers kept waking me up. Car horns should be illegal.' - Charley & Cookie

  Darynda Jones

  Naps, Waking Me Up, Car

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• i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

  James Dashner

  Love, Break Up, Running

  James Dashner (2015). “The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)”, p.35, Delacorte Press

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• Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

  John Green

  Hurt, Pain, Attention

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

  Eric Berne

  Problem, Hours, Structure

  Eric Berne (1977). “Games people play: the psychology of human relationships”

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• The next chamber is full of songbirds, if I remember right. Their music is like turtleweed. It will put you to sleep if you listen to it. They sleep most of the time, so the best thing is to pass through without waking them up. If they do awaken, then you must sing loud enough to drown out their music." "Great," Han said. "Whose idea was that?" "It seemed like a good idea at the time," Crow said. "I was an excellent singer.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Sleep, Ideas, Bird

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• There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Good Morning, Two, Morning Inspirational

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