“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.” PeopleIfsMeanLittlesHas BeensHappensCertainCoursesCasesNiceFateEventsStrangeBrokenCircumstancesMiracleSafetyOilSavedChainsConfusedFreakFenceMiraculousWhatever HappensDiscworldInteresting TimesCertain DeathChain Of Events Author:Terry Pratchett
“To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.” MenWayKindLinesBreakNiceBrokenBroken Up Author:Uma Thurman
“You hear terrible stories because there'll be a story about some terrible kid, but most of the kids I work with are terrific kids. They're poor, maybe their families are broken, so they're not coming home to a mom and dad and a nice dinner every night. But these kids are capable.” StoriesHomeKidsNightPoorNiceBrokenMomDadTerribleCapableDinnerComing HomeEvery NightTerrificMom And Dad Author:Rafe Esquith
“In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.” WorldMeanMadeWould BeNiceBrokenPromiseBeing NiceWorthlessVowPledge Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste.” FeelsSaidSilenceNiceAirMovementBrokenBirdEmptySurfaceSeedsTeethGrassPoolNastyBladesTremblingQuiverDistaste Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life” IfsKnowsMayMatterMomentsPoorNiceLove YouBrokenNo Matter WhatFellowsHonestlyPassingPassingsGoing AwayHeartedVery NiceBroken HeartedHappy Things Book:Dracula Source: Dracula
“Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsHas BeensSometimesCharacterWould BeNightKnownNovelFourNiceLonelinessBrokenPicksIndependentPhonesChecksClockSundaySparksAfternoonPanicWetTaxiBreathless Book:One Day Source: One Day
“I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out. The knife and fork are abviously middle-class sensibilities. The palm tree is a nice touch. A broken dream,perhaps? Plastic honeymoon, deserted island? Oh, If you put in a slice of pumpkin pie, it could be a desserted island! (Pg 64)” IfsDreamGirlClassGoneNiceTreeMiddleBrokenRemainsCaughtFleshIslandsHolidayMiddle ClassKnivesPlasticPieSensibilityPalmsForksDesertedPumpkinHoneymoonBroken DreamsPalm TreesPumpkin PieDeserted Island Book:Speak Source: Speak