Whole Life Quotes - Page 13

• Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make.

  Meg Cabot

  Dad, Decision, Important

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Heaven Sent”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

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• Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baseball, Eye, Skulls

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

  David Nicholls

  Life, Happy, Realizing

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• Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, School, Triangles

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• She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.

  Jenny Downham

  School, Boys, Dope

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• My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

  Tony Kushner

  Despise, Whole, I Can

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.81, Theatre Communications Group

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• I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

  Jack Kerouac

  Scared, Ghost, Stranger

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, House, Forgotten

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.14, Egmont UK

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• The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Example, Logic

  graf Leo Tolstoy (2005). “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and The Devil”, Hesperus Press

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• Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain. It's yours. It's all yours for taking! You're not going to waste it now, are you?

  James Patterson

  Responsibility, World Love, Life And Death

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• Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Past, People, Special

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.104, Macmillan

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• This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.

  Robin Hobb

  Night, Men, Hands

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest”, p.1021, Del Rey

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• It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen... 

  Stephenie Meyer

  Losing, Enough, Whole Family

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.224, Hachette UK

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• I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day, and, I believe, frequent association with a listless phlegmatic would make me an impassioned dreamer.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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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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• To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Regret, Past, Satisfied

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• You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.

  Fiona Apple

  Crazy, Long, Brain

  FaceBook post by Fiona Apple from Jun 22, 2012

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• You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Smart, Independent, Home

  Adeline Yen Mah (1997). “Falling leaves return to their roots”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

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• It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, People, Tunes

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.79, Penguin

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• One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Forgive And Forget, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Minutes

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Children, Grieving, Long

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• Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.

  Robin Sloan

  Mean, Secret, Walks

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.91, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man’s grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Heart, Night, Men

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• Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

  Graham Swift

  Children, Memories, Fall

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