Best Gave Up Wisdom
218 Gave Up quotes by 200 unique authors
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I knew right then you were the only one for me." He pulled her hand from his face, kissed her palm, then pressed it flat…
— Tessa Dare
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She probably gave up and started playing Minesweeper." [...] We reached the cafe and found Sydney bent over her laptop, with a barely eaten Danish…
— Richelle Mead
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The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted…
— William Golding
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i was raped, too sexually assaulted in seventh grade, tenth grade. the summer after graduation, at a party i was 16 i was 14 i…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but…
— Julie Anne Peters
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There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.
— Sarah Monette
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At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!
— Charles M. Schulz
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I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel. More than I think you'll ever know.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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No, hear me out. The long answer to that question is that everything about me has changed since meeting you. What I wanted five months…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.
— Mary Karr
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I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.” I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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He never gave up. And he does that for us
— Steven Spielberg
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...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.
— Terry Pratchett
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How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.
— Francine Rivers
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No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.
— Suzanne Collins
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In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In…
— Julian Barnes
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I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry,…
— Umberto Eco
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Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream,…
— Stephenie Meyer
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...you are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be…
— Greg Behrendt
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Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at…
— Ray Bradbury
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So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some…
— John Green
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