Mattered Quotes
299 quotes by 238 authors
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A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,…
— Virginia Woolf
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He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that…
— George Orwell
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Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would…
— Terry Pratchett
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Willow nestled against him. He smoothed her long hair down the back of her T-shirt, feeling its softness. In a few moments she fell asleep…
— L.A. Weatherly
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....Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any…
— Deanna Raybourn
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He didn't want the respect of people who weren’t worth wiping his nose on—people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something…
— James Frey
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He didn't care whose league Jordan was in. All that mattered was that she was his.
— Julie James
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And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest…
— Nora Roberts
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Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The…
— Pablo Neruda
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Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate…
— Jodi Picoult
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Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said,…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an itch…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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When we kissed, it didn't matter that I had been a wolf hours ago, or that I would be a wolf again. It didn't matter…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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You knocked the door down." Disbelief rang in his matter-of-fact tone. "I know," she answered,unable to say anything else. Unable to look away from his…
— C.C. Hunter
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