Mattered Quotes

299 quotes by 238 authors

But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away,… — Nicholas Sparks
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened.… — Arundhati Roy
We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever. That was the… — Sarah Dessen
And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people… — Michael Ende
I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God,… — Anne Rice
When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they… — Lauren Groff
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were… — John Green
Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered. — Katherine Applegate
My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to… — Charles Bukowski
And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive. — Rick Riordan
It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as… — Sarah Addison Allen
Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your… — Jimmy Carter
I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered â€“about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all… — Willa Cather
East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through.… — Edith Pattou
I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different… — Jeffrey Eugenides
It was the only way he knew to protect the court, the faery, and the only mortal who'd ever mattered to him. — Melissa Marr
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking… — Orson Scott Card
They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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