B Quotes
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“But I don’t know what the right thing to do is; I sometimes think I know too much, I’ve studied too much, learned too much, remembered too much. It all seems to average out, somehow; like dust that settles over... whatever machinery we carry inside us that leads us to act, and puts the same weight everywhere, so that always you can see good and bad on each side, and always there are arguments, precedents for every possible course of action... so of course one ends up doing nothing. Perhaps that’s only right; perhaps that’s what evolution requires, to leave the field free for younger, unencumbered minds, and those not afraid to act.”
Source: Use Of Weapons
“But I don't like light. I like the darkness, which frees us from our faces and the shadows we cast.”
Source: Killing the Second Dog
“But I don't like this. I don't like superficial connections with people.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“But I don’t see how they can recognize me if when I look back over parts of my life, I don’t even know who that girl is.”
Source: It Came 2 Pass: Book 1, In the Beginning
“But I don't shut up and I don't die.
I live
and fight, maddening
those who rule my country.
For if I live
I fight,
and if I fight
I contribute to the dawn.”
“But I don’t think fighting monsters is all that courageous. I think the ultimate act of courage is standing still in the face of a monster. Courage is looking closely enough into its jaws to see it for what it is: an illusion. The monster isn’t real. It’s your fear of the monster that is real. And just about anything in life can look like a monster if the light is just right.”
Source: Painted Oxen
“But I don’t understand, Moon thought, half to herself and half to Darkstalker. He never thought anything more terrible than any other dragon. He’s more interesting and kinder and more insightful on the inside than almost anyone else I’ve met.
He doesn’t know that , Darkstalker pointed out. He’s never seen inside anyone else, the way you have. After a few years of reading minds, you’ll see—it’s often the most brilliant dragons who are the most insecure. And the ones who are the most afraid of having their minds read—because they think they must have the worst, lowest thoughts of anyone—are nowhere near as bad as the ones who complacently don’t care because they assume everyone else is as terrible as they are. Mostly everyone is terrible, by the way.”
Source: Moon Rising
“But I don’t understand,” she said. “Why have you been following me all over the world? Why didn’t you just approach me before?”
“I’ve wanted to,” he confessed. “But I kept chickening out. I meant to in Frankfurt, but then you spotted me and I lost my nerve. I didn’t want you to think I was some sort of creepy stalker.”
“God forbid,” Eliot muttered.
Larry looked nervously at Eliot. “Then your bodyguard took off after me and I just panicked. And then there was that scary blonde in the dog costume…”
“Scary?” Parker reacted, her indignation coming through Sophie’s earbud loud and clear. “I was adorable.”
“My personal assistant,” Sophie explained. “She’s a furry.”
Source: The Bestseller Job
“But I don’t want an easy life. I want a meaningful one.”
Source: Girls of Paper and Fire
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.'
'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.'
'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'
'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence.
'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.
Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome," he said.”
Source: Brave New World
“But I don't want "good" and I don't want "good enough"
I want "can't sleep, can't breathe without your love"
Front porch and one more kiss, it doesn't make sense to anybody else
Who cares if you're all I think about,
I've searched the world and I know now,
It ain't right if you ain't lost your mind
Yeah, I don't want easy, I want crazy
Are you with me baby? Let's be crazy”
“But I don’t WANT it to get easier! I don’t want to get over him!”
Source: A Widow's Awakening
“But I don't want to be like this,' Nora told her. 'I don't want to be like Hugo. I don't want to keep flicking between lives for ever.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“But I don't want to feel differently. I want to feel love in its every form. I used to be so scared of it, but now I think love is another type of magic. It makes everything brighter, it makes people who have it stronger, it breaks rules that aren't supposed to exist, it's infinitely valuable. I can't imagine my life without it. And if you felt any love in your heart, you would understand. '
DONATELLA DRAGNA, PAGE NO. 183”
Source: Finale
“But I don’t want to get used to it. I want to sleep through the night once more and not wake up in a cold sweat at three o’clock in the morning wondering.”
Source: The Only Way Is Up
“But I don't want to just believe it, I want it to be true.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“But I don't want you to have any respite from me.”
Source: The Cake Shop in the Garden
“But I don't want you to keep pretending you're okay. I don't want you to keep downplaying the hurt you feel like you're not even human. You keep it up - all these lies to yourself, to other people, and soon you're not going to know who you are.”
Source: I Hope You Get This Message
“But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.”
“But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.”
“But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.”
“But I don't believe in guilt by association.”
“But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.”
“But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.”
“But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.”
Source: Airhead Book 3: Runaway
“But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.”
“But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.”
“But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall”
“But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.”
Source: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play
“But I don't fit. Your family hates me. I make your life difficult." That's where she was wrong. "No, You're my family. And as for making my life difficult, you, Blaire Wynn, make my life complete.”
Source: The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far
“But I don't forget and I don't forgive.”
Source: The White Queen
“But I don't give up; I forget why not.”
Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by
“But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.”
“But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.”
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“But I don't have anything to prove. My reputation is what it is. It seems that a lot of gay men are put off by jazz because either they don't believe it speaks to their own experience or they believe the genre itself to be somehow intolerant of homosexuality.”
“But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.”
“But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.”
“But I don't know how I really felt about Johnny Manziel, but I feel like now everyone hates him. He's quickly becoming my favorite player in college football.”
“But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time." "You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.”
Source: El color púrpura
“But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.”
“But I don't know what guys I like because I haven't been out with enough to know. I'm still learning.”
“But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”
Source: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
“But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.”
“But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.”
“But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.”
“But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.”
“But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.”
“But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.”
“But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.”