A Quotes
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“And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.”
“And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.”
Source: Ever After
“And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.”
“And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived.”
“And I died
As the thunder crashes
-in an empty sound.
(It turned my soul into a wound)
My life is destroyed
Without you
My mind is destroyed
Within me
I know a place where flowers bloom
Please take my hands into the woods
Please distract me from my pain
It cries loudly into my veins.”
“And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.”
“And I do believe that Italy really purifies and ennobles all who visit her. She is the school as well as the playground of the world.”
Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread
“And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.”
“And I do find it comforting that maybe when you die you get back all the things you've lost, like your legs, or your parents, or your daughters, or even your mom, and you get to eat all the ice cream you want, finally, and it doesn't hurt one bit.”
Source: How to Make Friends with the Dark
“And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background.
Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.
Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.
Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.
Run, I said.”
Source: Unravel Me
“And I do, I try. I love the world, try to catch its tune and sing along.”
Source: The Crying Book
“And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.”
Source: New and selected poems
“And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.”
“And I do pay a lot of attention to how things feel underneath my feet. It's a way of transporting yourself somewhere that you're trying to write about - closing your eyes and imagining what it feels like to literally be in that space. Maybe because of this weird aura thing I find it a bit easier to put my body in an imaginary space.”
“And I do talk a lot, obviously, about my clients; those are the people I have to advocate for, and when I say that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done, I am thinking specifically about them. But I’m also thinking about everybody else. I mean, I believe that for every human being. I think if someone tells a lie, they’re not just a liar, that if someone takes something, they’re not just a thief. If you kill someone, you’re not just a killer.
But it’s also true, a nation that committed genocide against Indigenous people, a nation that enslaved Black people for two and a half centuries, a nation that tolerated mob lynchings for nearly a century, a nation that created apartheid and segregation laws throughout most of the 20th century, can also be more than that racist history suggests.”
“And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.”
“And I do think that good art - the art that tends to last - is that art that hits human beings on several different levels at once because everybody's different. Some people approach art through their emotions, others through their head, and the art that can appeal to all of those levels is more likely to reach more people. Having more people see the work doesn't necessarily mean better art but it stands a better chance of lasting.”
“And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.”
“And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we have eaten.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“And I don't believe in such a thing as "happily ever after". There's only happily every now and then. I find the hardest trick is to recognize the now-and-thens, and to bask in them when they come. Happiness is a choice we make, like how to wear our hair, or having coffee with breakfast and tea at night.”
Source: The Passion of Dellie O'Barr
“And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.”
Source: The Color Purple
“And I don't care how scientific you think you are or how many letters you have after your name, you're one of us, bucko. You're a crazy Feeling Brain-piloted meat robot just like the rest of us.”
Source: Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
“And I don’t care that you’re in the mafia. I don’t care that you’re a murderer and my stalker. I don’t give a shit about your past any longer. It doesn’t matter to me that you spent ten years in the nuthouse. I. Don’t. Care.” She takes my face between her palms and her nails dig into my skin. “I know I should run far away from you. But damn my heart. Damn my soul and my legs and my feet… Because all I really want to do is run toward you.” Her voice breaks. “Damn you, Dubh Burton. Damn you…”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“And I don't care what a mess of a person you are," she told him. "I'm a mess too, but together, we are beautiful. You are my beautiful mess.”
Source: My Wife, My Man?
“And I don't care what age you are, kissing in the rain is the best.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“And I don’t even like you, but the pain of life without you is biting.”
“And I don't go out of the house if I can help it.”
“And I don't go outside of the house if I can help it.”
Source: Poor George
“And I don't have a corner sofa or a sweater-wearing husband. But I am here. The Noelle of right now, is right here.”
Source: Eight Perfect Hours
“And I don't have a present for you.'
'A present?' said Artemis.
'Of course,' sang his mother, spinning him around. 'Don't you know what day it is?'
'Day?'
'It's Christmas Day, you silly boy. Christmas Day! Presents are traditional, are they not?'
Yes, thought Artemis. Traditional. San D'Klass.
[…]
'Now Arty, I want to know everything. First of all, what happened here?'
'Remodeling,' said Artemis. 'The old doorway was riddled with damp.'
Angeline frowned, completely unconvinced. 'I see. And how about school? Have you decided on a career?'
While his mouth answered these everyday questions, Artemis's mind was in turmoil. He was a boy again. His life was going to change utterly. His plans would have to be much more devious than usual if they were to escape his mother's attention. But it would be worth it.
Angeline Fowl was wrong. She had brought him a Christmas present.”
Source: Artemis Fowl
“And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you—the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.”
Source: Sweethearts
“And I don't just WANT you, Helen. I LOVE you. Big difference.”
Source: Starcrossed
“And I don't know how to make people stay; I never have.”
Source: This Time It's Real
“And I don’t know what compels me to do it, what gives me the nerve—whether it’s because I’m still riding the adrenaline high of having just written an essay that I know is really good, or because the persistent heat has subdued the impulse-control section of my brain, or because I want to startle that smug smile off his face—but just when he’s about to take the photo, I stand up tall on my tiptoes and kiss his cheek.
Click.”
Source: This Time It's Real
“And I don't know what I enjoy more. Replaying the image of my sword against your throat...or thinking about how your heart would look on my plate."
Grim's dark eyes flashed with amusement. "Careful, Hearteater," he whispered, towering over her, standing far too close. "I might just give it to you.”
“And I don’t like Fairweller, but I hope she loves him, too. I hope she not marrying him for his money. That would be so… sad. She should marry him for his mind and soul.”
“And I don't need to keep hiding myself, either.”
Source: The Fae Keeper
“And I don't need your light to be lit”
“And I don’t think you need to be scared of forgetting me,” the boy says
“No?”
“No. Because if you forget me then you’ll just get the chance to get to know me again. And you’ll like that, because I’m actually a pretty cool person to get to know.”
Source: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
“And I don't want the world to see me,
Cause I don't think that they'd understand.
When everything's made to be broken,
I just want you to know who I am.”
“And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.”
“And I don't care if you're talking about things that are true, you're still talking about my personal life. How about I go peek in your window, take what underwear you wore last night, whose husband you were fucking, and shove that in the megaphone throughout your neighborhood? How does that feel? It's none of your goddamn business.”
“And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.”
Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
“And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway as far as I'm concerned is in New York the pride of New York theater.”
“And I don't cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.”
“And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.”
“And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.”
“And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.”
“And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.”