Mattered Quotes

299 quotes by 232 authors

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard… — Wes Moore
He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered. — Danielle Steel
It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didnâ€™t need to say you were sorry.… — Rick Riordan
That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk… — Nicholas Sparks
talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always. — Sarah Dessen
People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine. — Daphne du Maurier
The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean;… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything… — John Green
Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's… — Miranda July
Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself. Something changed… — Hilary McKay
...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered… — Jane Goodall
The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier… — John Green
They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear,… — George Orwell
Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much. — Joe R. Lansdale
Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant… — Michael Connelly
I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before,… — Margo Lanagan
The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered. — Ilona Andrews
You know something?" He lifted his head, and when he turned to me, he had this strange look in his eyes. Almost as if he… — Amanda Hocking
It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did… — David Levithan
...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. — Katherine Boo

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