B Quotes
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“But he played music so loudly he could not hear his pain. He stunted his growth beneath a bass that decorated his aura and lyrics that hardened the glass parts of him. He was indeed an autumn leaf dipped in concrete. He wanted sound, any sound but his own thoughts. Ears that needed songs louder than the mind were ears afraid of what they might hear inside.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“But he ran a bookstore, managed it, was well read, which we cared about then, whether someone had read the same books we had, and which I try to, have to, care less about now.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“But he realized that a life of wandering would get him nowhere; he needed someplace he could sit and think for a while and tinker with really big things--- machines that required huge fires and mighty smelters. Someplace he could store all his junk.
In short, he needed a home.”
Source: As Old as Time
“But he reminded himself that everyone was busy steering a course through their own dramas, that everyone was grappling with their own challenges in life. They're all busy coloring themselves in.”
Source: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
“But he's all in a muddle about himself, his position, his power, and indeed about everything in the world. He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“But he’s also not your only client! Rule number one in business is to not ever let the big dog know how small the other dogs are.”
Source: Beautiful Bitch
“But he's joking, he doesn't mean it."
"When Lucas makes a joke he means it.”
Source: The Green Knight
“But he's nice," Barby objected.
Tom Bishop smiled without humor. "Most pleasant and interesting man I ever knew was a burglar.”
Source: The Phantom Shark
“But he's not going anywhere, and then his hands find mine again. Instead of snatching it back, I make myself stand here too, and actually it's nice. The electric currents are racing. My body is humming. The breeze is blowing, rustling the leaves on the trees. It's almost like music. We stand side by side, looking out and up and around.”
Source: All the Bright Places
“But, he’s the white prosecutor, honey. What does he know about being black in America? What does he know about being pulled over for driving while black? What does he know about living with discrimination every day of your life or being a descendant of slaves? Has he ever experienced discrimination? Has he lost a loved one to senseless violence? Can he hear gunshots from a lounge chair on the front porch of his fancy-ass home?”
Source: Betrayal In Black
“But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a funeral at which it seemed like almost nobody in attendance had any idea why they were there. His wife, who had heard things like this from him before, reminded him of a ceremony he had presided over only a few months ago about which he had had the same reaction. 'Oh right,' the minister said. 'Yes. That one was much worse.' He leaned down to the coffee table and picked up the remote.”
Source: The Quarry and The Lot
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
2Corinthians 12:9”
“But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true piece is when you curl around one little piece of something. One little fern. One little frond. One person to love.”
Source: The Child Finder
“But he says things so subtly, so smoothly, that it's hard to tell if it's purposeful or if he's just playing along with my jokes.”
Source: The Distance Between Us
“But he seemed relieved, momentarily, to have something trivial to say.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.”
Source: Poems
“But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.”
Source: Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
“But he still wished Anna would do something to reassure him—ideally burst into tears and say, You were always there for me, always, and plead with him to forgive her for all her years of neglect—but he'd have settled for even a hint that she intended to make an active effort to meet up.”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”
“But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.”
Source: Moominvalley in November
“But he thought that his father and mother were up there somewhere, that he didn't come into this world alone, and so was reminded why he must keep surviving as best he can...”
Source: Beasts of a Little Land
“But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.”
Source: The Infinite Moment of Us
“But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“But he understood it was over, and he felt able to let her go. He was sure their life together had happened in the way he said it had. But it was something that had passed. And that passing--though it seemed impossible and he'd fought against it--would become part of him now, too, as surely as anything else he'd left behind.”
Source: Cathedral
“But he was a boy. People treated boys differently.”
Source: Chain of Thorns
“But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that wil carry him into places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -”
Source: The Alchemist
“But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
Source: The Alchemist
“But he was able to understand one thing: making decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
Source: The Alchemist
“But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.”
Source: The Magus
“But he was also the boy who’d shown up on her class field trip and shown her where she really belonged. The one who’d let her cry on his shoulder when she had to leave her family, and who’d gone out searching for her in the middle of nowhere, just because he’d heard her voice in his head.”
Source: Everblaze
“But he was always like that, reporting the facts with a slight deviation that would suit his needs.”
Source: The Liar
“But he was fine. He was cool. He's working as a cameraman now. Still doing some music on the side. Not rock stuff. DJ-ing apparently.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“But he was left with the all-too-familiar feeling of having been infected by insanity, of being drawn into someone else's insanity.”
Source: The Heavens
“But he was mesmerised by the necessity of completing his task. The mizzen stay parted under his axe; he saw another rope draw up taut, and cut that as well — the pattern of the seams of the deck planking at that point caught his notice — felt another severed and flick past him, and then knew that the Lydia was free from the wreckage. Almost at his feet lay young Clay, sprawled upon the deck, but Clay had no head. He noted that as an interesting phenomenon, like the pattern of the deck seams.”
Source: Beat to Quarters
“But he was mine. I’d caught him. And I was going to keep him.”
Source: Don't Let Go
“But he was mostly the kind of a handsome guy that if your parents saw his picture in your Year Book, they’d right away say,
“Who’s this boy?” I mean he was mostly a Year Book kind of handsome guy.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out of his dreams, its reality and its particular logic rendered meaningless in the light of day. The difference was so extreme that he could not accommodate the two places together in his mind. In this enormous new country, there seemed to be nowhere for the old to reside. There was nothing to link them; he was the sole link. Here life ceased to obstruct or assault him. Here was a place where humanity was not always pushing, rushing, running as if with a fire at its back”
Source: The Lowland
“But he was not beyond it, he knew, and would never be. Beneath the numbness, the indifference, the removal, it was there, intense and steady; it had always been there. In his youth he had given it freely, without thought; he had given it to the knowledge that had been revealed to him--how many years ago?--by Archer Sloane; he had given it to Edith, in those first blind foolish days of his courtship and marriage; and he had given it to Katherine, as if it had never been given before. He had, in odd ways, given it to every moment of his life, and had perhaps given it most fully when he was unaware of his giving. It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the flesh; rather, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance. To a woman or to a poem, it said simply: Look! I am alive.”
“But he was not her Gabriel. Her Gabriel was dead. Gone. Leaving behind only vestiges of him in the body of a harsh and tortured clone. Gabriel had almost broken Julia’s heart once. She was determined she would not let him break her heart for the second time.”
Source: Gabriel's Inferno
“But he was not kidnapped. ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality.”
“But he was not Matthew. He was everything that Matthew was not. He was safety and comfort and warmth. He was home. He was everything in the world that was hope and sunshine. He took a step toward her and opened his arms to her, and she was in those arms without ever knowing how the distance between them had closed.”
Source: The Secret Pearl
“But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.”
“But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“But he was reserved to the point of possible aloofness, even when I was my bubbliest self.”
“But he was sick of this charade. Sick of watching people lose a little more of their humanity each day, and sick to death of seeing people tortured in the name of God. What had happened to these people?”
“But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation”
“But he was so hungry. There was something chewing at him from the inside, trying to get out. His head wasn't right. But he was so hungry-”
Source: Flesh and Bone
“But he was still human; even if the flames wrapped him in their warmth and kept him awake, he weakened as any other mortal weakened when kept from sleep. And, eventually, he grew weak enough that the darkness grew closer and closer, and the quiet of the city stole into his blood and silenced it entirely.”
Source: The Heartless Divine
“But he was surrendered, they had surrendered him, into the power of death.”
Source: The Message To The Planet