A Quotes
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“And each ripple builds and builds into the tidal wave of anarchy to which we are now doomed.”
Source: Powers, Vol. 5: Anarchy
“And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”
“And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“And Each Time You Halt and Look Back, You’ll Realise Everything in Life was Planned and Nothing Ever was Accidental, it was Never A Coincidence it was Always Him.
The Happiness, The Pain, The Lessons, The Blessings, The Lost Hopes and Forgotten Dreams, The Endings and Beginnings, Everything fell in your Lap as was His Design. And then You know, it was Never for Nothing, Everything meant Something that Probably will Make sense Someday.
Until Then, Keep the Faith, Walk the Path and Wear Your Grace as Your Most Ornate Armour and Know in Your Heart, Nothing was Ever Accidental and Everything was A Part of His Plan and Always Will Be, and the Most Funny and Reassuring Truth, Your Soul Chose It All, Long Before you Took This Human Shell, Long Before You Knew the Wound of Pain and the Balm of Healing, Long Before this Human Halt, Long Before this Winter of Life that stands only for a while before the Spring walks in to remind you How Nothing Stays forever, not even the Pain or the lingering Halt of it all.”
“And each year now
we know more, but we know no better —
what we see in the sky is simply
the softened gloss of the past sifting
back to us, and likewise, every atom
down the body’s shining length
was inside a star, and will be again.”
Source: Dark Matter: Poems
“And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.”
Source: The Moonstone
“And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.”
“And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from people, and now he doesn't even know what honey tastes like.”
“And efforts are painstaking always,since you are into this mystical universe to practice a technique,every learning is a slow process,
gradually you will master it by time and if you are able to grasp things more quickly in a limited spell, as your experience is advancing,
you are almost nearing to be a maestro.Our world doesn't need incompetence anymore,
but needs high skills or talents to do the job done quickly with desire and ambition.”
“And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a consolation ? a shifting of responsibility? and if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?”
Source: The Map of Love
“And eighteen times this easy gesture, this stooping over with the tee between the fingers, the ball hidden, protected in the perspiring palm, the insertion into ground the wooden link to earth the ball would soon be contacting – all this, for me, had given the gesture a quality of sacredness.”
“And either victory, or else a grave.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt.”
“And Emily had yet to shed a single tear. It troubled her all the way back to the city, and she rode with one hand sandwiched between her cheek and the cool, shuddering glass of the limousine window, as if that might help. She tried whispering 'Daddy' to herself, tried closing her eyes and picturing his face, but it didn't work. Then she thought of something that made her throat close up: she might never have been her father's baby, but he had always called her 'little rabbit.' And she was crying easily now, causing her mother to reach over and squeeze her hand; the only trouble was that she couldn't be sure whether she cried for her father or for Warren Maddock, or Maddox, who was back in South Carolina now being shipped out to a division.
But she stopped crying abruptly when she realized that even that was a lie: these tears, as always before in her life, were wholly for herself—for poor, sensitive Emily Grimes whom nobody understood, and who understood nothing.”
“And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.”
“And empty heads console with empty sound.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books
“And empty words are evil.”
Source: The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
“And endless are the modes of speech, and far
Extends from side to side the field of words.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.”
“And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.”
Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
“And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.”
Source: The Rise of Shams
“And Esme remembered in a rush--the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria that had attended it. Even in recollection the howling uplifted her like the crescendo at the end of a symphony and made her heartbeat quicken.”
Source: Lips Touch: Three Times
“And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting.”
Source: The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken
“And Ethan? That boy lived in his own little wonderland, convinced he could save the world one organic radish at a time.”
Source: Fertile Ground for Murder
“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”
Source: Novels, 1930-1935
“and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage”
Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1931-1935
“And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can't get enough, never will be able to get enough.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway in your brain that you can never reclaim.”
Source: One Last Thing Before I Go
“And even at ten - because I'm his son, his blood? maybe - I understand that his kisses and compliments are always sincere; the are always true things. He is a monster, but the monster is not incapable of love. That was the horror of my father, little Lisey: he loved his boys.”
Source: Lisey's Story
“And even being in the middle of it, at the LVMH group with Dior, there are certain parts of it that I'm just not really in, because it's not in me or my nature. The whole scene around it, the events, the photography ... It's never really been my thing. But I don't take a critical position on people who are very much about that either.”
“And even honorable men keep secrets for the safety of those they love.”
Source: The Maiden Ship
“And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to try to wind itself around an empty shirt, she understood for sure that the people who said it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all were a bunch of dicks.”
Source: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
“And even if he weren't, a person can't hold on to another person forever. At some point, their muscles give out, or the authorities get called.”
Source: Don't Touch
“And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never join forces with the resisters. She would never be violent or vengeful. Not Lena, who used to practically faint when she pricked a finger, who couldn’t even lie to a teacher about being late. She wouldn’t have the stomach for it.”
“And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the relative permanence of paint, words were temporal. You uttered them and they evanesced, but if you wrote them, they remained, though whether the written word was any more truthful than the spoken was a mystery to her. Only paint was honest.”
Source: I Always Loved You
“And even if there were souls, and there was a devil, he's not going around granting fame and fortune just for your soul in return. If he is, he's a fucking idiot. According to the standards of the Bible, most people are Hellbound anyway, so it ain't like Satan would be hurting for more souls, he's already got a shit-ton of souls. Satan going around granting fame and fortune just for Kanye West's soul would be like an apple farmer paying ten million dollars for a fucking apple.”
“And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.”
“And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?”
“And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.”
“And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there will still be plain old death.”
Source: Slaughterhouse-Five [Signed Full Leather Collector's Edition in original shrinkwrap]
“And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they've got all the money! It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER! It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't matter!”
“And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you.”
“And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.”
Source: The Higher Power of Lucky
“And even if you did not come back to me, if you were happy, I could live with that. It is your sadness that tears me apart.”
Source: Barbarian's Hope
“And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.”
Source: This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel
“And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're smart or that you try really hard at everything you do. I think you'd still deserve to walk with your head held high.”
Source: Maid-sama! Vol. 01
“And even if you get shot by a stray bullet, you don't gotta go to no doctor to get it taken out, whoever shot you will take they bullet back! "I believe you have my property!"”