“The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.” ShouldDifficultNewsSittingShould HaveConvincedFrightenedCakeTerrifiedBlameless Author:Eva Ibbotson
“When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.” PeopleKnowsWorldShouldLittlesImportantHappensWould BeKidsWantedFunFeltInterestingRoomsGroupsUnderstoodSittingYeahBoringBe GoodHaving FunHanging OutSitting AroundBoring Things Author:Fiona Apple
“Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.” WantShouldGuyGirlCarSittingDrivingChocolateCakeRacingRace CarChocolate Cake Author:Chetan Bhagat
“Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.” IfsMenWorldShouldFightingBeliefDestinyPathWrittenSittingEvidenceMen And WomenTasksOptimismBlindContraryDespiteSettlingSomething BetterRemakesSidelinesRoadblockBlind Optimism Author:Barack Obama
“There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.” ShouldWellsLongSaidSometimesPhilosophyLossPleasurePayAttentionTalkingGoneMinesConversationSittingHearingCleverBrownDragonsLecturesRocketsSingle WordGreatest PleasuresGone AwayHis LossTalking To HimLong Conversations Book:Complete Shorter Fiction Source: Complete Shorter Fiction