Were Meant To Be Quotes - Page 8

• I told you we were meant to be," he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now-- Well, now I kiss him.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Kissing, Still Smiling, Wells

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• The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

  Zadie Smith

  Sleep, Reader, Ideals

  Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith (2003). “The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Mean, Boys

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.208, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

  Tim Wise

  Song, Fighting, Winning

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• And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.

  Alice Sebold

  Memories, My Sister, Left

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.222, Pan Macmillan

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• It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Space, Worry, Way

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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