A Quotes
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“And everybody’s running around talking about ‘Zionists’ all day. Okay, just keep parroting that over and over again.”
“And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.”
“And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.”
Source: This Is How You Lose the Time War
“And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you know that you love someone, those things don't matter. You have to push all the everyday things and the outside world away, and just enjoy knowing that this is the man who has the chest your head is meant to lie on.”
Source: Hot Finish
“And everyone knows I’m a mad scientist. It’s amazing what everyone knows, isn’t it? Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal. But that’s neither here nor there.”
Source: Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus
“And, everyone knows, to tolerate a person telling you about his childhood it is necessary to be in love with him.”
Source: Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
“And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.”
Source: The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
“And everyone makes mistakes.”
“Yeah but mine were really bad,” I admitted, my voice shaking. “And I’m still paying for them.”
“Who?”
“What do you mean?” I didn’t understand.
“Who are you paying for them?”
Source: Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase
“And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.”
“and everyone wants to read the poem
we’re afraid to write.”
Source: Hourglass Museum
“And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.”
“And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.”
“and everything burned in blue, everything a star”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?”
“And everything I thought I knew - you made me trade it all for you...but, frankly, you're not worth it.”
“And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this. Or time would vanish. We would need no personal names of the old sort in the sidereal future, nothing being fixed. We would be designated by other nouns. Days and nights would belong to the museums. The earth a memorial park, a merry-go-round cemetery. The seas powdering our bones like quartz, making sand, grinding our peace for us by the aeon. Well, that would be good - a melancholy good.”
Source: Mr. Sammler's Planet
“And everything stayed unsaid.”
“And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.”
“And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life. Certain words travel far and wide.”
“And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all taht was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of this together was the flow of events, was the music of life.”
Source: Siddhartha
“And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of this together was the flow of events, was the music of life.”
Source: Siddhartha
“And everything would be different, different.”
“And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.”
“And everything you say sounds better because it’s in French. I might just have to speak in a fake French accent for the rest of my life.”
Source: Paris for One and Other Stories
“And everywhere, everywhere there were books. Not the tidy stacks of an intellectual trying to impress, but the slumping piles of a scholar obsessed.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.”
Source: Wither
“And everywhere, just as there were animals on land, were the animals of the sea.
The tiniest fish made the largest schools- herring, anchovies, and baby mackerel sparkling and cavorting in the light like a million diamonds. They twirled into whirlpools and flowed over the sandy floor like one large, unlikely animal.
Slightly larger fish came in a rainbow, red and yellow and blue and orange and purple and green and particolored like clowns: dragonets and blennies and gobies and combers.
Hake, shad, char, whiting, cod, flounder, and mullet made the solid middle class.
The biggest loners, groupers and oarfish and dogfish and the major sharks and tuna that all grew to a large, ripe old age did so because they had figured out how to avoid human boats, nets, lines, and bait. The black-eyed predators were well aware they were top of the food chain only down deep, and somewhere beyond the surface there were things even more hungry and frightening than they.
Rounding out the population were the famous un-fish of the ocean: the octopus, flexing and swirling the ends of her tentacles; delicate jellyfish like fairies; lobsters and sea stars; urchins and nudibranchs... the funny, caterpillar-like creatures that flowed over the ocean floor wearing all kinds of colors and appendages.
All of these creatures woke, slept, played, swam about, and lived their whole lives under the sea, unconcerned with what went on above them.
But there were other animals in this land, strange ones, who spoke both sky and sea. Seals and dolphins and turtles and the rare fin whale would come down to hunt or talk for a bit and then vanish to that strange membrane that separated the ocean from everything else. Of course they were loved- but perhaps not quite entirely trusted.”
Source: Part of Your World
“And Evie was the grown-up now. She was in the line of grown-ups behind the child.”
Source: The Guest Book
“And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the little families going, to cheer them up, so that they could all have somebody to tell stories around the campfire at night, and somebody else to paint pictures on the walls of caves, and somebody else who wasn't afraid of anything and so on.”
Source: Bluebeard
“And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?" he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. "Will a frown bring back the dead or fortify a town? If I allow myself to laugh in the face of misery, I rest my mind from the stress of it all, and then it'll work the better for you and your war. And if I'm really to be one of your advisers, Your Majesty, accept this piece of advise: Take happiness where and when you find it, because there is going to be precious little of it in the next few months!”
Source: The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark
“And exciting buildings are fine periodically.”
“And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.”
“And eyes disclosed what eyes alone could tell.”
“And face-to-face with the lush vineyard, I feel my worries melt away. The grapes glow with that magical golden sunlight, but from here, it feels far more real. I turn and turn, drinking in the sights of the green vines, thick with plump grapes, the same sage green as the broad leaves fluttering in the breeze. Dusty paths stretch between the rows, and I want to walk through them forever, listening to the almost-quiet of this strange, beautiful world.”
Source: The Charmed List
“And failure, if you want to know, Dakota, is just another opportunity to try again.”
Source: The Friday Night Knitting Club
“And fairy month of waking mirth
From whom our joys ensue
Thou early gladder of the earth
Thrice welcome here anew
With thee the bud unfolds to leaves
The grass greens on the lea
And flowers their tender boon receives
To bloom and smile with thee.”
“And falling's just another way to fly.”
“And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.”
“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
“And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.”
Source: Poems of the Orient
“And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-dur was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare.”
Source: The Return of the King
“And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-dûr was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare. Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. For he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung.
From all his policies and webs of fear and treachery, from all his stratagems and wars his mind shook free; and throughout his realm a tremor ran, his slaves quailed, and his armies halted, and his captains suddenly steerless, bereft of will, wavered and despaired. For they were forgotten. The whole mind and purpose of the Power that wielded them was now bent with overwhelming force upon the Mountain. At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom.”
Source: The Return of the King
“and farther into cold fog
I let him go, I lay and stretched on love's
fucking stretcher, and let him wander on his
own the haunt salt mazes.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton
“And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.”
“And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble, like coming to the police station, and he looks after me by cooking meals for me, and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me.”
“And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature,” Coach Bob declared. “So what?” my father said. “Right!” cried Iowa Bob. “That’s the point: So what?” Thus the family maxim was that an unhappy ending did not undermine a rich and energetic life. This was based on the belief that there were no happy endings.”
“And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone;
In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own.”
“And fathers, . . . listen to [your returned missionary sons], and connect with them in regular, focused conversation. Talk with them in depth about their feelings and desires. Pray with them and give them blessings as they face the important decisions in their future.”