World Quotes - Page 17

• I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.

  Wilkie Collins

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.176, e-artnow sro

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• Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Looks, Kind

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Jun 03, 2015

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• That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Dream, Here And There, Different

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• There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

  Dru Pagliassotti

  Past, Men, Thinking

  Dru Pagliassotti (2017). “Clockwork Heart”, p.172, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

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• Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream." -Westcliff

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Husband, Unique

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• Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sky, Bird, Soul

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• Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree.

  Nalini Singh

  Animal, Views, Higher

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.205, Penguin

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• For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Two, Challenges

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.429, Penguin

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• How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Hands, Knowing

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.136, Penguin

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• All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.

  Sean Covey

  Respect, Past, Two

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world.

  Jean Rhys

  Fear, Long, Saws

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• The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.

  Kami Garcia

  Beautiful, Chaos, Destruction

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• I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

  Deborah Harkness

  Views, Magic, Important

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• Alone. The saddest word in the world.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Saddest

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

  Danielle Steel

  Writing, Mean, Survival

  Danielle Steel (2006). “The Long Road Home”, Dell Publishing Company

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• We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Giving Up, Choices, Trying

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• You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Corn, Next, Moments

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.116, Macmillan

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• Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the wrong question." Silas raised an eyebrow. "How so?" "Well," said Bod. "If I go outside in the world, the question isn't who will keep me safe from him?" "No?" "No. It's who will keep him safe from me?

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Father, Mean

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• Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

  Warren Ellis

  Magic, Cheat, Code

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• One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Littles, Spheres, Life Is

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• We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

  Salman Rushdie

  Animal, Stories

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• Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

  Nancy Farmer

  Air, Wind, Sky

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• Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Half, Lord, Ifs

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.243, Penguin

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• He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kings, Moving, Simple

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• As far as I can see, in this world, you’re a fool for not using whatever gifts you’re given. It’s not as though you lied or cheated or stole to get Howard Marlowe as your father. That’s who he is; that’s who you are. You got dealt a bad card when you were bitten—so use one of the better cards you have in your hand to make up for it.

  Claudia Gray

  Father, Hands, Cards

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