Devastating Quotes

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Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains… — Salman Rushdie
Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are… — Kate Morton
It's late, I'm tired, and your cigarettes are giving me a headache," I growled. "I suppose that's fair." He drew in on the cigarette and… — Richelle Mead
I couldnâ€˜t make sense of the mess in my head. Diego was dead, and that was the main thing, the devastating thing. Other than that,… — Stephenie Meyer
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within… — Daniel Quinn
This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there… — Melina Marchetta
Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so… — Markus Zusak
Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane — D. J. MacHale
I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation… — Pentti Linkola
It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Adrian Ivashkov: "Rose Hathaway, I can't wait to see you again. If you're this charming while tired and annoyed and this gorgeous while bruised and… — Richelle Mead
And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to… — Lisa Kleypas
She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God. — Sonya Sones
The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as… — Sue Monk Kidd
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can… — Sharon Salzberg
She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. — Gayle Forman
He kissed like no man she'd ever known. There was something about him, a rawness, an earthy sensuality that bordered on barbaric, something she'd never… — Karen Marie Moning
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you… — James Patterson
Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one… — Mark Driscoll

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