Given Up Quotes
240 quotes by 212 authors
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You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I’d given up on. Thank you…
— Simone Elkeles
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One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
— Stephen Fry
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You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of…
— Darren Shan
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The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up…
— Brandon Sanderson
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But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream.…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese…
— Sarah Dessen
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She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells…
— Sarah Dessen
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Hey, Tink," Reed called to his wife. He'd given up on the poker game and was cradling the little pink handle that was Mariah Savage…
— Cindy Gerard
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We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.
— Muriel Barbery
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A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one…
— Katsura Hoshino
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You forget who submits, Eva,†he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep…
— Sylvia Day
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My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed,…
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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TOP FIVE WAYS PEOPLE CAN SURPRISE YOU 5. Just when you think they’ve given up on you, they prove that they never will. 4. They…
— Susane Colasanti
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I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.
— Kim Harrison
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I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
— Edward Gorey
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I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated…
— Suzanne Collins
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There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had died in the…
— Charlie Higson
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She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure…
— Paulo Coelho
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I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be…
— Paulo Coelho
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