A Quotes
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“And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.”
“And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.”
Source: And the Sea Will Tell
“And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.”
“And I believed him. It was genuine, that confusion, and that was the first time I really saw him, I think- when I understood that his social persona was concealing none of what I'd always thought it was, but actual kindness instead, that there was a kind streak at his core.”
Source: Picture Us in the Light
“And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.”
Source: Sky Bridge
“And I buried them, too many of those men, and grieved their stories and their lives into my own.”
Source: Shantaram
“And I call Saks Fifth Ave-y home. That is where a real bad Barbie roam.”
“And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.”
“And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times.”
“And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues.”
Source: The Lost Years
“And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.”
“And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.”
Source: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
“And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.”
“and I can no longer remember my name or my country, or even my place in the universe.”
Source: Isla and the Happily Ever After
“And I can no more stop worrying about you than I can stop myself from breathing.”
Source: Legacy
“And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.”
“And I can remember a tear running down my frozen cheek—a tear neither of pain nor of joy but of emotion created by intense experience.”
Source: The Forgotten Soldier
“And I can say that I’ll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat.”
“And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.”
“And I can see Russia from my house.”
“And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it, to keep us fearful, to suppress knowledge, to curtail freedom and creativity, and to celebrate death. It's nothing less than the sanctified dumbing-down of the human race. And demanding respect for it is frankly an insult that deserves to be repaid with considerable interest.”
“And I can’t get to her. My girl is half naked and dying and I can’t get to her!
I push forward.
I ice solid.
I crack it and pull back.
Fuck!”
Source: Iced
“And i can't get you out of my head,
how in the world will i begin
to let you walk right out my life
and blow my heart away?”
“And I can’t help but wonder if somewhere, on some plane of existence, Malek sits on his throne, angry that I stole a soul from his grasp.
But then again, I gave him Jack’s.
Of course, it might have broken mine forever.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“And I can't help feeling that anything that works so effectively, that's so transformative, has got to be hurting me at another end, maybe sometime further down the road.”
Source: Prozac Nation
“And I can't leave. Owl is here, and my parkmates. My kits have found homes here. They might be kittypets, but I can find them if I have to. And they can find me.”
Source: Riverstar's Home
“And I can't say how many stories I now see that deal seriously with the question of how we'd all be better off in a world without men.”
Source: The Vulnerables
“And I can tell by the way you're searching
For something you can't even name
That you haven't been able to come to the table
Simply glad that you came
And when you feel like this try to imagine
That we're all like frail boats on the sea
Just scanning the night for that great guiding light
Announcing the Jubilee”
“And I can tell you from experience that the most precious thing we have is time. There's never going to be enough of it.”
Source: Wild and Wrangled
“And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.”
“And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”
“And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.”
“And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.”
“And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.”
“And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.”
“and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.”
“And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.”
“And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.”
“And I can’t let you out of here until I know what your plans are. (Kat) To stop the annihilation of mankind and the earth. It’s a simple plan, really, but an important one. Can I go now? (Sin)”
Source: Devil May Cry
“And I certainly don’t need a boy to show me how to do it.”
Source: The Heir
“And I certainly don’t like the white supremacists and those whose religion is hating the Jews, period.”
“And I certainly intend to direct someday.”
“And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.”
“And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.”
“And I choose to be alone
Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need.”
“and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song”
“And I close my eyes to gaze into those depths, and am almost engulfed in you.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition