Things Like Quotes
943 quotes by 820 authors
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You've always lived here, right?" Sarah asked. "Except for the years I went to college." "Didn't you ever want to move away? To experience something…
— Nicholas Sparks
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People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing…
— Mira Grant
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And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses…
— Stephen Chbosky
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It was so big, that view. I’ll never remember it properly. How can anyone remember something that big? I don’t think people’s brains are designed…
— Lucy Christopher
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A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying…
— Shel Silverstein
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You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little deeper.…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness.…
— Meg Cabot
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He let you have the pants anyway?" she asked. I had started talking about Maxon as soon as I could, eager to know how their…
— Kiera Cass
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Preston smirked. “You’re gonna have to stop calling me things like ‘gorgeous’ and ‘beautiful.’ I’m gonna get a complex. Why can’t I be ‘sexy,’ or…
— Abbi Glines
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You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.
— Daniel Handler
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bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no…
— Richard Dawkins
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People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them…
— Terry Pratchett
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Got to love a dude that says things like "kinetic" and "detritus.
— Karen Marie Moning
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One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty,…
— Lauren Oliver
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You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more…
— Ted Hughes
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We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't…
— Philip Pullman
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Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from…
— Terry Pratchett
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I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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