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“Well, grief can lead some people to dark places from where they simply never return. I have seen it often. People constricting around an absence, growing hard and mad and furious at the world, and never recovering. There is nothing to lead them from the abyss. And beyond that, too, I think the point-blank rejection of all spiritual matters as mere nonsense has its own problems. I'm talking about the outright rejection of religion by some who basically see it as a kind of inherent evil. That stance is a denial of all the potential good religion brings: the comfort, the succour, the redemption, the community. This thinking can bring its own kind of nothingness - not always, of course, but often. And, as we are seeing, people find a version of religion elsewhere, in tribalism, in their identity, in politics, for God's sake, in possessions. Look at our glorious secular world as it stands today. To me, secularism can also feel like a kind of hardening around an absence.”
Source: Faith, Hope and Carnage
“Well, guilt is a bitch, but don't you think if you're thinking it in the first place that it just might be true?”
“Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffie-- with knobs on!”
“Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.”
“Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.”
“Well, hadn’t He shown her in the wilderness she didn’t have to earn His blessing? That it was freely given?” ~ Haley”
Source: Hunted in the Wilderness
“Well, HALLELUJAH! FOUR letters - ranging from April 28th to May 27th - came home today and the world looks much different. One was sealed with a kiss, one was sealed with a Big kiss, one was sealed with a peck (?), and one was just sealed, which means I got spit on.”
Source: As Always, Jack: A Wartime Love Story
“Well, happiness doesn’t always need a reason, a practical reason, neither does sadness.”
Source: Norina Luciano
“Well, Happy Birthday to me!
Was it 13 January? Honestly, I had no idea. Time flies when you're sleeping under bridges and eating from dumpsters.
So I was officially sixteen. For my present, I got cornered by Uncle Freaky, who announced that I was marked for assassination.”
Source: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
“Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.”
“Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Well has Solomon said-"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations, for Gateshead and its daily luxuries.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Well, have you even tried again? You can’t just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.”
Source: The Book Thief
“Well, have you ever known someone who is nice and nasty, who makes you love them one minute and hate them the next? Who makes you feel wonderful and terrible and you never know which one it is going to be?”
Source: The American Heiress
“Well having a partner in crime helps a lot! But honestly it doesn't take much to get me psyched. The stage is where I'm most at home, and that has been the case since I was very young. It's where I feel most myself and at ease.”
“Well?” he asked, smiling devilishly. “I promise, I won’t hurt you, Nikki. In fact, I imagine you’ll enjoy my company, tremendously.”
I let out a ragged sigh and nodded.
He stared at my mouth. “I’d like to hear you say it.”
I cleared my throat. “Come in, Ethan.”
“Well, he continues, if I could give you any bit of advice worth its salt, I'd tell you what I wish someone would have told me when I was your age.
And what would that be?
Stop worrying all the time.”
Source: All the Flowers in Paris
“Well, he'd get help from the Bible. It was all inspired, every word, no matter what scoffers like Jim said. He'd take the first text he turned to and talk on that.
He opened on: 'Now THEREFORE, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which ARE beyond the river, be ye far from thence,' an injunction spirited but not at present helpful.”
Source: Elmer Gantry: Le charlatan
“Well, he'd gone this far, animated by nothing more noble than curiosity, he told himself as he studied the face of the man in the mirror, pushing his collar down over his neatly knotted tie. The man's mind slipped into English: The cat's got your tongue. Curiosity killed the cat. To stay in vein, the man in the mirror gave a Cheshire smile, and Brunetti left the house.”
Source: The Golden Egg
“Well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things."
"Like..." I hesitated. "Blood-whore things?"
"Like beating-her-up kinds of things" he replied flatly.
"Oh God," I said "That's horrible. And she...she just let it happen?"
"She did." The corner of his mouth turned into a sly, sad smile. "But I didn't"
"Tell me, tell me you beat the crap out of him"
His smile grew, "I did.”
Source: Vampire Academy
“Well, he didn't want the children to confuse make-believe with reality. Therefore, he wanted a definite transition saying, "We're going from this to that. This is one world, that is another, but it's a play world." - Francis Chapman (on Fred Rogers)”
Source: The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
“Well he knew that in this country, in this life, we fashion ourselves. We pick our spot and our companions and how we'll earn our keep, and that's how we go about the fashioning. Through the where of it, and the who, and the how. But it that is how we fashion ourselves, then surely it follows that with the loss of each of these elements comes the winnowing away. The burying of one's spouse, the retirement from the job, the moving from one's home where one has lived for twenty-two years - this is the undoing, the unmaking. It is through this process that time and intent reclaim the solitary soul for its grander purpose.”
Source: Table for Two
“Well," he said, "I'm guessing your client is either a magician or a pervert. And I mean both of those terms with the highest respect.”
Source: The Book of the Most Precious Substance
“Well," he said, "this isn't too bad. My left leg is broken, but at least I'm right-legged. That's pretty fortunate."
"Gee," one of the other employees murmured. "I thought he'd say something more along the lines of 'Aaaaah! My leg! My leg!'"
"If someone could just help me get to my foot," Phil said, "I'm sure that I can get back to work."
"Don't be ridiculous," Violet said. "You need to go to a hospital."
"Yes, Phil," another worker said. "We have those coupons from last month, fifty percent off a cast at the Ahab Memorial Hospital. Two of us will chip in and get your leg all fixed up. I'll call for an ambulance right away.”
Source: The Miserable Mill
“well," he said, trying to sound as though he found the whole thing a joke, "if you want to -- er -- what is it?" (He checked Percy's letter.) "Oh yeah -- 'sever ties' with me, I swear I won't get violent."
"Give it back," said Ron, holding out his hand. He is --" Ron said jerkily, tearing Percy's letter in half, "the world's" -- he tore it into quarters -- "biggest" -- he tore it into eighths -- "git." He threw the pieces into the fire.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Well," he said, "you can either do the wrong thing and let a loss like that destroy you, or you can do the right thing and be properly grateful for all that came before the loss. Grief should drive you to your knees, but if you stay there forever, you're saying you know better than God how the world should work. And you don't.”
“Well, he should have some chocolate, at the very least,' said Madam Pomfrey”
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Well, he thought, dwelling on past failures once you'd learned all there was to learn was just heaping futility on failure.”
Source: Shards of a Broken Crown
“Well, he was a good uncle when it truly mattered."
"Like when you became a fugitive and needed somewhere to stay, so he signed me up for the job," he says dryly.
"Yeah, exactly!”
Source: Alaska's Illicit
“Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time... If he keeps developing and matures ? goodness knows what he will become. At the moment he's a breathe of fresh air.
(on Wayne Rooney)”
“Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition. But Crowley remembered what Heaven was like, and it had quite a few things in common with Hell. You couldn’t get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Well, hell yeah! I’m gonna kick your ass, too!”
I narrowed my eyes at him. “Not this time you’re not. I have a new superpower.”
He laughed. “And what’s that? Harsh language?”
I leaned over to kiss his neck once, and then ran my tongue up to his ear, kissing his earlobe. He froze in place.
“Distraction,” I breathed into his ear.
He grabbed my arms and flipped me onto my back. “You’re going to miss another class.”
Source: Beautiful Disaster
“Well Hello Halo! It is human nature for us to make generalized judgments about a person using only a couple of traits. The "Expressivity Halo" Theory explains how we connect various personalities to specific facial expressions and assign assumptions about that person.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“Well, hello there. And welcome. You must be the German gal.”
I nodded, still not trusting myself to speak.
“It's nice to meet you,” she said in a loud voice.
“She's German, not deaf,” Henry murmured. “This is Mrs. Price. She takes care of the staff.”
Source: Leaving My Father's House
“Well,” her mother said, looking at the engine, “at least that’s still there.”
"Do you know anything about engines?" Stephanie asked.
"That’s why I have a husband, so I don't have to. Engines and shelves, that’s why men were invented."
Stephanie made a mental note to learn about engines before she turned eighteen. She wasn't too fussed about the shelves.”
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant
“Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world at one time. Now I am melancholy mad, what with drinking and one thing and another.”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“Well, here’s the shocker,” said Kirby. “Majors Miller and McKinsey believe our former Captain Paul Remmich is acting as a spy for the Iraqi government.”
Source: Counter Identity
“Well, here we are."
Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward. As if to give life ceremonious permission to proceed.”
“Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.”
“Well, heroes got patted on the head, then pushed out of the way until the next time a hero was needed, if they survived being a hero in the first place. Very often, heroes did not.”
Source: Knife of Dreams
“Well, Hindsight, have you ever heard of the term Busy Idiot?”
Source: Skullcrack City
“Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that's happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.”
“Well, honey," Ellie said. "Every single person who's important to me started out as a stranger. Figure I might as well start off nice with new people. There's always time to think they're assholes later.”
Source: Crazy Rich Cajuns
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing our democracy. They wrote the Constitution and added a Bill of Rights that intended for people of all classes to enjoy the freedoms the Constitution offers. But capitalism came along without a constitution or a bill of rights and the industrialists grabbed unrestricted power. The capitalists wrote their own ‘Declaration of Capitalism’.” — Mother Jones”
Source: Hellraiser—Mother Jones: An Historical Novel
“Well, honey, once you've been head-over-heels in love with somebody, you don't go back to being 'friends'. It doesn't work that way. - Megan's Dad”
Source: Finding Home
“Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.”
Source: Emily of New Moon
“Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?”
“Well, human beings have always done one thing very well, and that is create their own hells and bask in their own misery. They complain about what they create for themselves; they relish the pain. What they don't do so well most of the time is find a way out of it.”
Source: Woke Up in a Strange Place