A Quotes
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“And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.”
“And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.”
Source: Fight Club
“And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.”
“And the shadows went away, revealing Sos’Umptu as a drider! But she kept growing, and no, she was not a drider, for she was beautiful, not bloated in abomination. Too beautiful to look upon. Beautiful and terrible all at once, and huge, dwarfing the driders about her, bigger even than the jade spider constructs that had come in from the entry. And Yvonnel understood and knew she was doomed. “Behold!” the creature that had been Sos’Umptu demanded. “I am the avatar of Lolth. Kneel to me. Beg for my mercy.”
Source: Lolth's Warrior
“And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King
“And the shower of roses spun around me, inviting me to take part in their ever-present waltz.”
Source: The Rose and the Sword
“And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story...”
“And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more.”
Source: A Classic Crime Collection
“And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.”
Source: Day watch
“And the single action scam was dispensing cash like water gushing down Niagara Falls.”
“And the sinks and mirrors are right there. The hotel instructions state: employees must be clean, their hair smoothly groomed. Unruly poetic locks are forbidden.”
Source: Balta drobulė
“and the six of them fall together in a tangle of hoarse laughter and expensive shoes”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“And the skies: in one day the sky could travel from green at dawn to a noon-time blue so severe it was almost black to hot silver in the afternoon to roiling burgundy at sunset. Just before night it flowered in yawning, imperial violets. Wedges of mauve, cauldrons of peach - skies more like drugs than colors.”
Source: About Grace
“And the sky came with its passionate mouth to kiss the ravishing moon. This is the night for lovers and dreamers. O heart, do not go to sleep.”
“And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.”
Source: DON JUAN
“And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'”
“And the smell was so... thick, you know? Best way I can describe it. Like honey cake, and fresh watermelon and treacle all rolled into one. I could taste it in the air, it was so strong. I bought so many bottles of rosewater on that trip I must have looked like some kind of smuggler at customs.”
Source: Best Hex Ever
“and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.”
Source: Eclipse
“And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“And the solitude whistles in my ears the song of freedom.”
“And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?”
“And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now, I swear I could pick it out from miles away. But neither of these things matter. This," he said, taking my face in his hands. "You. That's what I'm keeping. You'll always be my Bella, you'll just be a little more durable.”
Source: Eclipse
“And the space created by capital is a very seductive space indeed— provided you have the money.”
Source: The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite
“And the spiders?"
"Still there."
"But?"
"But I can have spiders in my head as long as I don't let them consume me.”
Source: The House in the Cerulean Sea
“And the spirit of Superman is great to have around.”
“And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
“And the stars blinked
as they watched her carefully
jealous of the way she shone.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“And the stars! Could anyone who had never seen stars possibly imagine what infinity is, when, most likely, the very concept of infinity first appeared among humans inspired, once upon a time, by the nocturnal vault of the heavens? Millions of shining lights, silver nails driven into a dome of dark blue velvet . .”
Source: Metro 2033
“And the stars look very different today.”
“And the stars: the sky gets crowded at night, and it is a bit like watching a clock, seeing the constellations slide across the sky. It’s comforting to know that they’ll show up, however bad the day has been, however crook things get. That used to help in France. It put things into perspective—the stars had been around since before there were people. They just kept shining, no matter what was going on. I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that’s fallen to earth: it just shines, no matter what is happening. Summer, winter, storm, fine weather. People can rely on it.”
Source: The Light Between Oceans
“and the stars were icicles of mockery”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.”
Source: Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems
“And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!”
“And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle.”
“and the stones, bewitched, can see:
The lost hours and into the past.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if they were bound to go right though to Jersey City, which they used to say was the end of the world.”
“And the story is told that a young woman taking an examination for a Communist party post was unsure of the answer to a question asking the inscription on a certain monument. She wrote the words of Marx quoted above and when the examination was over hurried to the monument to check. Reading the inscription "Religion is the opiate of the people," she fell to her knees, saying, "Thank God.”
Source: Transforming Russia from Empire to Commonwealth 1682-1991
“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”
Source: Old Angel Midnight
“And the strange thing was he had never loved her more than in that moment, because at that moment she had become himself.
But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, not what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you. [...]
And it seemed to him then that every human was always looking for himself, in bars, in railway trains, in offices, in mirrors, in love, especially in love, for the self of him that is there, someplace, in every other human. Love was not to give oneself, but find oneself, describe oneself. And that the whole conception had been written wrong. Because the only part of any man that he can ever touch or understand is that part of himself he recognises in him. And that he is always looking for the way in which he can expose his sealed bee cell and reach the other airtight cells with which he is connected in the waxy comb.
And the only way he had ever found, the only code, the only language by which he could speak and be heard by other men, could communicate himself, was with a bugle. If you had a bugle here, he told himself, you could speak to her and be understood, you could play Fatigue Call for her, with its tiredness, its heavy belly going out to sweep somebody else's streets when it would rather stay home and sleep, she would understand it then.
But you havent got a bugle, himself said, not here nor any other place. Your tongue has been ripped out. All you got is two bottles, one nearly full, one nearly empty.”
Source: From Here to Eternity
“And the stretch-across-your-entire-face smile?
From the people around me. Despite the
lonely, despite the sadness, despite the anger
their smiles make the hearts Aphrodite left
behind beat faster / louder.
They make my heart beat in my chest again.”
Source: Howling at the Moon
“And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble.”
Source: Doctor Zhivago
“And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.”
“And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.”
“And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.”
Source: Elizabeth and Her German Garden
“And the sun and the moon sometimes argue over who will tuck me in at night. If you think I am having more fun than anyone on this planet, you are absolutely correct.”
“And the sun had on a crown
Wrought of gilded thistledown,
And a scarf of velvet vapor
And a raveled rainbow gown;
And his tinsel-tangled hair
Tossed and lost upon the air
Was glossier and flossier
Than any anywhere.”
Source: Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures
“And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.”
Source: The Riders