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“Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?”

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“Don’t ever leave me again,” I said in a tiny voice. I won’t,” he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. “I won’t. Not ever.” And just like that, a cold shard of ice that had been inside my chest ever since we’d split up-well, it just disappeared. I felt myself relax for the first time in I don’t known how long. The wind was chilly, but the sun was bright, and my whole flock was together. Fang and I were together. Excuse me? I’m alive too.” Iggy’s plaintive voice made me pull back.”

Firsts Wells Long Made Said Whole Together Felt Voice Known Sun Alive Wind Hair Cold First Time Excuse Tiny Ice Relax Chests Splits Leaving Me Flocks Fangs Excuse Me I'm Alive Chilly

Author:James Patterson

“I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.”

Suicide Committed Tiny

Author:Nick Hornby

“The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to think it’s the small things we control and not the large, it’s the other way around! We can’t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident – or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large human values daily, the only order large enough to see.”

Thinking Way Humans Enough Moments Body Light Running Earth Spirit Values Order Causes Mistake Fate Air Wine Forgotten Glasses Details Accidents Tiny Extras Small Things Spills Human Values

Author:Anne Michaels

“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”

Inspirational Different Today Change Inspiring Tomorrow Tiny Changing The World Jonathan Livingston Seagull Livingston Seagull Jonathan Seagull

Author:Richard Bach

“I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?”

Littles Use Humor Funny Mother Baby Humorous Witty Tiny Chinese Sarcastic Forks Spoons Toothpicks

Author:George Carlin

“There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.”

Ifs Years Mean Persons Ideas Moments Fall Causes Events Notes Falling In Love Tiny Beautiful Life Wrong Words Tiny Things

Book:Mostly Harmless

Source: Mostly Harmless

“It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.”

Ifs Knows Way Mean Doe Different Crazy Worst Stupid Tiny Different Ways Meaningless Conform Bohemian

Author:J. D. Salinger

“If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.”

Ifs Needs Humans Language Animal Levels Brain Creatures Unique Communicate Brilliant Tiny Vulnerable Evolve Abstract High Level Rodents

Book:Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

Source: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

“Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.”

“It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir”

Firsts Arms Spring Bird Woods Tiny Snow Flight Afghanistan Leafs Shaking Melting Flakes Open Arms Tiny Things Amir

Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“I’m Angelina,” she says. “Are you here to save us?” I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes. “You’re right, Angelina - I’m here to save you.” “Can you? Really?” “I’ll try,” I say and the girl smiles.”

Trying I Can Eye Girl Tiny Sparks Her Eyes

Author:Markus Zusak

“if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.”

Ifs Thinking Rooms Crazy Ready Like You Tiny Not Ready Without Hope

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.”

“But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me 'Hon.”

“I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.”

Seems Bits Fire Happened Tiny Newspapers Flames Steak Grate

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.”

Stills Hurt Alive Romantic Dear Tiny Sensitive Cynicism Romantic Love Shells Crushed Cynic Been Hurt

Author:Jeff Bridges

“I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook wouls be fundamentally changed . The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy arguement suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white,not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.”

“It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly.”

Long Real Eye Dies Fall Courses Wise Alive Dying Building Ocean Died Photograph Fishes Tiny Giants Swimming Long Ago Statues Falling Down Whales

Book:No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.”

“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.”

Men Humans Whole Age Bits Human Beings Alive Modern Produce Tiny Bottles Pretending Organs Primitive Savages Laboratory Ghastly Up To Date Brideshead Revisited

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Jules has always been one of those women that men go crazy about because she has enough self-confidence to say this is me, take it or leave it. And, invariably, they take it. Or at least try to. They love the fact that she doesn’t wear makeup. That her clothes, on her tiny, petite frame, are a mishmash of whatever she happens to pull out of the wardrobe that morning. That her laugh is huge and infectious, and, most of all, that she listens. She loves life, and people, and makes time for them, and even before Jamie came along men were forever falling in love with her.”

People Men Trying Self Enough Facts Happens Fall Morning Laughing Forever Crazy Huge Clothes Falling In Love Self Confidence Tiny Love Life Makeup Wardrobe Making Time Jamie Petite This Is Me

Book:Mr. Maybe

Source: Mr. Maybe

“Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.”

Needs Giving Hands Asks Memories Love Is Lovers Filled Tiny Lovely Enormous Emptiness Faithfulness Gloves Desolation Second Hand

Book:A New Selected Poems

Source: A New Selected Poems

“The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space.. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth.”

Knows I Can Ideas Seems Growth Space Mines Paper Window Wings Drawing Tiny Sculpture Moths Caterpillars Cocoons Fluttering

Author:Audrey Niffenegger

“I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.”

Littles Made Kids Dog Car Figures Red Baseball Bigger Bottom Tiny Passing Passings Frightened Vow Shaking Housewife Porch Miniatures Pittsburgh Kids Playing

Book:The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”

Giving Light Strong Felt Dark Wind Giving Up Lows Tiny Warmth Steady Burned Not Giving Up Flicker Laura

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder

“I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199”

Thinking Mind Long Sometimes Bigs Joy Bits Sorrow Weak Wave Tiny Overwhelming Flash Big Things Small Things Joys And Sorrows

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you. Your first parent was a star.”

Firsts Long Has Beens Light Energy Stars Parent Millions Minutes Events Waste Accounts Patterns Nuclear Tiny Opening Bombs Guts Atoms Locked Decay Bangs Uranium Supernova Nuclear Waste Potassium

Book:Weight

Source: Weight

“It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.”

War Ends Lost Memories White Pieces Office Died Tables Cancer Tiny Hills Ran Flags Fades Echoes Traffic Jam Cafeteria Truce Traffic Jam White Flag

Author:Stephen King

“Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.”

Should Fun Food Size Tiny Bars Candy Weight Loss Moron Candy Bar

Author:Glenn Beck

“I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.”

Eye Dark Watches Bird Crosses Screens Tiny Dancer Eyelids

Author:Janet Fitch

“I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.”

Decision Tiny Splits

Book:Light On Snow

Source: Light On Snow

“There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!”

Thinking Acting Boys Tiny Gross Underwear Horny Ponies

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”

Way Said Fall Dark Rooms Shadow Aspect Window Cameras Tiny Painter Association Sunlight Projection Upside Down Jung Dark Room Shadow Work Camera Obscura

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

“The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.”

Ifs Littles Wanted Loses Simple Flower Spring Rose Tiny Charm Scent Violet Lilies Splendor Daisies Loveliness Whiteness

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!”

Life Is Views Tiny Entry Vastness Peepholes

Book:Life of Pi - CANCELED

Source: Life of Pi - CANCELED

“GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.”

Made Ideas Chance Break Happened Ocean Wings Spread Billions Tiny No Idea Comparison One Time Caves Feathers Freeze

Book:How We Are Hungry

Source: How We Are Hungry

“He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.”

Giving Children Soul Past House Bears Lessons Weight Tiny Chinese Sat Crush Chairs Clothings Flash Colonels Lucidity Rebecca Embroidery Rocking Chairs Checkers Marquez

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”

People Needs Hands Order Friendship Walks Tree Fronts Red Tiny Carpet Red Carpet

Book:No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.”

Knows Moments Might Running Cities Madness Down And Winter Edges Tiny Guts Where You Are Dozen Bully Up And Down Demonic Straight Up Imbecility

Author:Charles Bukowski

“After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?”

Source: Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light

“The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.”

Years Bigs Grows Hours Feet Minutes Century Wind Huge Fine Cold Machines Towns Rounds Shoes Size Bones Flesh Tiny Weather Dust Clock Shakes Grain Blanket Monstrous Wrinkles Pollen Turnips Cold Wind

Author:Ray Bradbury

“If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.”

Source: One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel

“Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.”

Littles Rocks Tiny Sand Overrated Little Rock Eternal Sunshine

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.”

Has Beens Life Is Values Universe Given Existence Goes On Tiny Cherish Indifferent Counting Vastness Great Gifts Specks Gifts Of Life

Book:Confessor

Source: Confessor

“It's a GIRL. It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.”

Littles Hands Girl Courses Dark Saws Minutes Hair Fit Ears Lips Tiny Petals Dark Hair

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant memories for the future…If you are still in the process of raising children be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled, will disappear all too soon, and that you will, to your surprise, miss them, profoundly.”

“What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now.”

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood