W Quotes
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“What’s rare—what’s holy—is remembering who you really are…
and choosing to live from that place.”
— Carla J. Brooks, 7 Cups of Coffee (Chapter 11)”
Source: 7 Cups of Coffee
“What's real and what's not? People we meet in books--Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo-- can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers' licenses. Characters spawned in an author's imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die.”
“what's really annoying is that you don't read any Chewie fanfic. If you did you'd know that Wookiee was not a language, it was a species. There were at least three Wookiee languages. Rey learned Shriiwook from Wookiees who came to Jakku, but she didn't usually speak it because Wookiees mostly understood Basic."
I was laughing. "And why are you using the past tense?"
"Because all of this happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Holmesy. You always use the past tense when talking about Star Wars. Duh.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“What’s really going on deep down is a desperate desire for love and approval. But when it’s not fulfilled, that desire can hurt. So we have a knee-jerk tendency to blame others or feel slighted over the smallest act.”
“What’s really notable about the Logi’s refusal to engage with us in our own language and media is how they’ve forced us to communicate on their terms. Our dire economic need to forge a productive relationship with another species has made us accept them and their demands. This gives them a lot more control over how they’re seen, meanwhile forcing us to put all the effort into communication, such as our network of translators.”
Source: Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
“What's really unfair is that Dad put in his ten thousand hours. I've see the footage from his pro days, studied him as a Coach. He had mastered it. Now, as I watch him shuffling inside, I wonder what it feels like to have put in your ten thousand hours only to go backward in time and have to start all over.”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“What's really valuable gets the least attention.
Misplaced priorities, the biggest irony of mankind.”
“What’s ridiculous, little dragon, is that you think you can walk into my space and walk out again without any consequences.”
Source: The Bond That Burns
“What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.”
“What's right isn't what's worked.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“What's rose? A tragic or romantic flower?”
“What’s scarier than a rabid honey badger in human form? A rabid honey badger in human form who is your loyal cousin.”
Source: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
“What's shadow-sick?' she asked.
'You might call it 'heartsick' or 'soul-sick',' answered Anita. 'It happens when humans turn from face-to-face trust and let the darkness of death enter them. Thanks to Adam, we all have inherited shadow-sickness in our mortality. Resisting it is the war in which we are all engaged.'
'Is your colleague being guarded, then?' John asked.
'No, she is being companioned inside a community to the north,' Anita said. 'It is a guarding of sorts--but *for*, not *against*. The purpose is to help her turn once again toward life.' She addressed Lilly. 'We learned long ago that shadow-sickness feeds on isolation. So we take our stand against it by protecting relationships of intentional love and kindness.”
Source: Eve
“What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.”
Source: Healology
“What's simple to do is also simple not to do.”
“What's so advanced in being the master of war, we're advanced when we rise master of peace!”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“What’s so beautiful about girls?” I would implore.
And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn’t possibly have the mental maturity to comprehend such grown-up concepts as love and bleeding vaginas; “You’ll understand someday, James.”
Source: The Accidental Siren
“What's so dangerous about my arms?' he murmured.
'For me, everything.”
Source: Legendary
“What's so funny?"
"HAHAHA, nothing ... it's just, your mask is a diaper!"
"Well," Yuan began. "Reality is scarier than fiction. Who has the time to create a well-rounded disposable mask just to see you once? I didn't take a designer class after all. Did you know I'm working around a budget?”
Source: Sensiti
“What's so good about giving up? Is it better to escape from reality, to the point where you're throwing away your hope?”
Source: Attack on Titan #1
“What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?"
She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being alien and foreign and strange even in the place where I was born, and about the immortality that wove through my parents' lives but ultimately would fail them. Their immortality belonged to other people, and I hated that.”
Source: Siren Queen
“What's so great about writing?"
"You can make anything true”
Source: Somewhere Over the Sun
“What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, Ericsson told me, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in Deliberate Practice, which he has identified as the key to exceptional achievement. When you practice deliberately, you identify the tasks or knowledge that are just out of your reach, strive to upgrade your performance, monitor your progress, and revise accordingly. Practice sessions that fall short of this standard are not only less useful - they're counterproductive. They reinforce existing cognitive mechanisms instead of improving them.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in deliberate practice. This is the key to exceptional achievement.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“What's so praiseworthy about entrusting your sense of what's right to someone else?”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている 3
“What’s so wrong in seeking happiness? We may be fractured, sure, but that doesn’t mean we can’t piece ourselves back together.”
Source: We May Be Fractured
“What's so wrong with being different?”
Source: Sameness
“What’s special about a story if I could have thought it up? What’s special about a story if I was actually courageous enough to play a part in it? What’s special about the Christmas story is that I am incapable of doing either but God did both.”
“What’s SQ?” asked Evan.
“Sexual Quotient.”
“What’s that?”
“Basically, it’s your odds of getting laid. Everyone has an SQ. just like everyone has an IQ.”
“I’ve never heard that term before.”
“That’s because I made it up.”
“That figures. Finally applying your actuarial skills to what really matters, eh?”
Source: Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
“What’s stopping you from moving forward? The need to be certain. Certainty is prison. Break free and you’ll be free.”
“What's stopping you then?"
"Apathy and a broken heart," I say. "Both of those will go away eventually, though, and that's when I'll just get up and leave.”
Source: The Power of Six
“What's strange is that small changes upset me immensely and always have done. A tree trimmed outside my house, the reorganization of a supermarket aisle, a new haircut, an updated app format. I cried for hours when they "new and improved" the recipe for the mashed potato I eat every Monday night.
But the big stuff?
The deaths, the tragedies, the life-changing shifts that rock everyone else to their core? That's when I'm cool, calm and collected. It's why I had to give three speeches at my own parents' funeral, and also--I'm assuming--why I heard my great-uncle Joseph call me an "empty robot" under his breath when I sat back down again.
I don't understand it, but there's just something in me that knows how to stand still when the earth shatters.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse
“What's 'suitable for kids' defines what sort of kids we as a society want. And right now, the girls society wants are the ones who can fit on a short list—while the list for boys is without borders or end.”
Source: Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
“What's surprising about the 2016 election results isn't what happened. It's what didn't happen. Trump didn't lose by 30 points or win by 20 points. Most people who voted chose the same party in 2016 that they'd chosen in 2012. That isn't to say there was nothing at all distinct or worthy of study. Crucially, white voters without college educations swung sharply toward Trump, and their overrepresentation in electorally key states won him the election. But the campaign, by the numbers, was mostly a typical contest between a Republican and a Democrat. The fact that voters ultimately treated Trump as if he were just another Republican speaks to the enormous weight party polarization now exerts on our politics.”
Source: Why We're Polarized
“What’s that?” Dad tilted his ear toward me. “I didn’t quite catch it.”
This was a thing he did. He wanted me to proclaim it like a battle cry. I asked, “WHAT KIND OF DAY WILL IT BE, MY SON?”
His voice reverberated through me like wildfire, igniting a resounding cry. I jolted upright and yelled, “IT’S GONNA BE EXTRAORDINARY!”
Source: Loving the Legend
“What’s that?” Ethan asked.
“It’s a book,” Monster said.
“I know it’s a book. I meant, how’s it supposed to help?”
“Most answers can be found in books,” Monster said solemnly. “As a wise man who wasn’t Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
Source: The Girl Who Could Not Dream
“What's that?"
"French press."
"For coffee? Real coffee? Not instant?"
"We're camping, Zorie, not living in a dystopian nightmare.”
Source: Starry Eyes
“What’s that?” he asked the horse-lion.
“I don’t know,” said the horse-lion.
“At one time you seemed to know everything,” remarked the Prince tartly.
“At one time I did, but we’re all entitled to forget, I suppose. Besides,” it added, not unkindly, “I only seemed to know everything because you knew nothing at all.”
Source: Dark Castle, White Horse
“What's that?"
"He just fell from that tower!"
"Is he dead?"
"He's alive, I think."
Someone bent over me. "Are you alive?"
"I'm alive," I said breathlessly, "and I'm going to have a baby."
"What did he just say?"
"Something about a baby."
"A baby." I said, and then I blacked out.”
Source: Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
“What's that, honey? What was I doing while Uncle Gabe was dueling a god with all of civilization at stake? Why, I was wrestling in the muck with an exceptionally tenacious cow.”
Source: Kings of the Wyld
“What's that in the mirror?
In the corner of your eye?
What's that footstep following?
But never passing by?
Perhaps the lot is waiting,
Perhaps when we're all dead.
Out they'll come a slithering,
From underneath your bed.”
“What’s THAT?!” Laurent screeched as the bushes directly next to them began to move.
A hundred things ran through Madi’s mind: that serial killers really should choose more productive ways to spend their time, that her sister Sarah was going to be out-of-control when their parents broke the news Madi’d been murdered, that it was a really stupid twist of fate that Madi’d found the man of her dreams only to lose him, and lastly—
That really looks like a squirrel.
“RUN!” Laurent bellowed as the little creature took two bouncing steps toward them and stopped, staring at them with interest.”
Source: Internet Famous
“What's that like?" I explained what it was like having a fourth kid very simply: imagine you are drowning... and then someone hands you a baby.”
Source: Dad Is Fat
“What's that, mister?"
"That's the green for the gentleman's coat.
No--don't pinch it, or you'll get it all over you.
Yes, you can put the cap on.
Yes, that's to keep it from drying up.
Yes, put it back in the box....
That's yellow. No, I know there isn't any yellow in the picture, but I want it to mix with the green to make it brighter. You'll see.
Don't forget the cap.
What? Oh, anywhere in the box.
White--yes, it's a big tube, isn't it? You see, you have to put a little white into most of the colours--why? Well, they wouldn't come right without it. You'll see when I do the sky.
What's that? You want the dog made white all over? No, I can't make it a picture of Scruggs. Why not? Well, Scruggs isn't the right sort of dog to take out shooting. Well, he's not, that's why. This has got to be a retriever. All right, well, I'll put in a liver-and-white spaniel. Oh, well, it's rather a pretty dog with long ears. Yes, I daresay it is like Colonel Amery's. No, I don't know Colonel Amery.
Did you put the cap on that white paint? Dash it! if you go losing things like that I'll send you back to Mother and she'll spank you.
What? Well, the gentleman has a green coat because he's a gamekeeper. Possibly Colonel Amery's gamekeeper doesn't, but this one does. No, I don't know why gamekeepers wear green coats--to keep them warm, I expect.
No, I haven't got any brown paint same as that tree-trunk. I get that by mixing other colours. No, I've got all the colours I want now. You can put 'em away and shut the box.
Yes, I can tell pretty well how much I want before I start.
That's called a palette knife. No, it isn't meant to be sharp. It's meant for cleaning your palette and so on. Some people use a knife to paint with. Yes, it's nice and wiggly, but it won't stand too much of that kind of treatment, my lad. Yes, of course you can paint with a knife if you want to. You can paint with your fingers if it comes to that. No, I shouldn't advise you to try.
Yes, well, it makes a rougher kind of surface, all blobs and chunks of paint. All right, I'll show you presently. Yes, I'm going to begin with the sky. Why? Well, why do you think? Yes, because it's at the top. Yes, of course that blue's too dark, but I'm going to put some white in it. Yes, and some green. You didn't know there was any green in the sky? Well, there is. And sometimes there's purple and pink too. No, I'm not going to paint a purple and pink sky. The gentleman and the dogs have only just started out. It's morning in this picture.
Yes, I know, on the other side they're coming home with a lot of birds and things. I'll put a pink and purple sunset into that if you're good and don't ask too many questions.
No, be a good girl and don't joggle my arm. Oh, Lord!”
Source: The Five Red Herrings
“What’s that old saying about the longest way ‘round is the shortest way home, or is it the shortest way ’round is the longest way home? Anyway, this is the longest shortcut I’ve ever taken.”
Source: The Invisible Intruder
“What's that smell?" [my mother] shouted.
"Biogas, it's-"
"It's horrible!"
By now the plastic was rumbling like mad, ready to blow. I had to act quickly. It was time to remove the reed and proceed with ignition.
I reached over and quickly popped out the reed, and when I did, a pipe of silver steam came rushing out the top. My mother was right, it smelled vile. I'd set aside a long piece of grass, so I grabbed it now and poked it into the fire, catching a flame.
"Stand back!" I shouted. "This could be dangerous."
"What?!"
I stood up and ran to the door, pushing my mother aside. With half my body shielded by the door frame, I stretched out my arm, inching the flame closer and closer.
"Here it goes," I said.
I touched the fire to the piping stream, clinching my eyes to shield them from the flash. But when the flame touched the gas, all it did was sputter and die. When I opened my eyes, all I saw was a piece of grass, dripping with foul water. My mother was furious.
"Look what you've done; you've ruined my best cooking pot! Boiling goats' poop, I can't believe it. Wait until I tell your father..."
I wanted to explain that I'd done it for her sake, but I guess it wasn't the right time.”
“What's that you're holding?" he asked, noticing the pamphlet, still rolled up in her left hand.
"Oh, this?" She held it up. "How to Come Out to Your Parents."
He widened his eyes. "Something you want to tell me?"
"It's not for me. It's for you." She handed it to him.
"I don't have to come out to my mother," said Simon. "She already thinks I'm gay because I'm not interested in sports and I haven't had a serious girlfriend yet. Not that she knows of, anyway."
"But you have to come out as a vampire," Clary pointed out. "Luke thought you could, you know, use one of the suggested speeches in the pamphlet, except use the word 'undead' instead of--"
"I get it, I get it." Simon spread the pamplet open. "Here, I'll practice on you." He cleared his throat. "Mom. I have something to tell you. I'm undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I'm here to tell you that the undead are just like you and me." Simon paused. "Well, okay. Possibly more like me than you."
"SIMON."
"All right, all right." He went on. "The first thing you need to understand is that I'm the same person I always was. Being undead isn't the most important thing about me. It's just part of who I am. The second thing you should know is that it isn't a choice. I was born this way." Simon squinted at her over the pamphlet. "Sorry, reborn this way.”
“What's the advantage of fear or the benefit of regret or the bonus of granting misery a foothold even if death is embracing you? My old abbot used to say, "Life is only precious if you wish it to be." I look at it like the last bite of a wonderful meal. Do you enjoy it, or does the knowledge that there is no more to follow make it so bitter that you would ruin the experience? - Myron on facing death”
Source: Heir of Novron
“What's the age of consent in Australia? Like, kangaroo?”
“What's the alternative? Yo quit whenever something gets challenging? To futz around your whole life, miserable and incomplete?”