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“What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.”

Bigs Turns Tiny Obligation Big Things Disappointing

Author:Alain de Botton

“You're a Daniels and a Walker. That means you're 99% fine stubbornness, tenacity and resilience combined", Tara said. "And the other 1%?" Mia asked as they sat at the tiny galley table. Ford wrapped an arm around her neck and pulled her in close. "Perfection.”

Mean Said Arms Fine Perfection Tables Resilience Tiny Sat Necks Tenacity Stubbornness Walkers Mia

Author:Jill Shalvis

“I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.”

People Thinking Has Beens Party Effort Race Issues Television Tiny Tea Racist Portions Foxes Deliberate Tea Party Referring Broadcasting Race Issues

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you would love half-rotted fish guts and tweaking the eyes out of little grazing animals; you would know no poetry and you could never appreciate flying as fully as the human on the ground yearning to be you. If you wanted to be a seabird you deserved to be one.”

Ifs Knows Humans Littles Would Be Eye Wanted Animal Brain Half Stupid Appreciate Fishes Tiny Flying Guts Be You Yearning Pointless Grazing

Author:Iain Banks

“Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M”

Ifs Sometimes Philosophy Bits Brain Wonder Too Much Taste Picks Tiny Vulnerable Worldview Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Isaac Marion

“He let out a sigh. With my head there against his chest, I could faintly make out the sound of his heart beating through his suit coat. It seemed to be rushing. His hand, gentle as ever, reached to cup my cheek. As I looked into his eyes, I felt that unnameable feeling that was growing between us. With his eyes, Maxon asked for something we'd both agree to wait on. I was glad he didn't want to wait anymore. I gave him a tiny nod, and he bridged the small gap between us, kissing me with unimaginable tenderness.”

Want Heart Feelings Hands Eye Felt Waiting Sound Growing Kissing Agree Tiny Glad Suits Cups Gentle His Eyes Gaps Chests Cheeks Tenderness Coats Sigh Rushing Unimaginable Make Out Heart Beating

Author:Kiera Cass

“It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.”

Want Feels Mother Pieces Cutting Tiny Monsters Feel Better

Book:Mr. Monster

Source: Mr. Monster

“When his phone rang, he had to dig through his pocket to find it, and his fingers brushed against a pair of tiny earbuds he and Kat had last used in Monte Carlo. Hale smiled a little, realizing he hadn’t worn the tux in ages. It was just one of many ways his life had change in the years since a girl named Katarina Bishop crawled into his window and into his life." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter”

Way Years Littles Age Lasts Used Girl Realizing Window Fingers Phones Tiny Just One Pockets Pairs Allies Worn Bishops Carter Hale Monte Carlo Katarina Bishop

Author:Ally Carter

“When the woman took the earbud, he didn't ask another question. She was a woman on a mission as she placed the tiny device in her ear and said, "This is Special Agent Abby Cameron. Let me talk to Macey McHenry.”

Said Asks Special Ears Let Me Missions Tiny Agents Devices Cameron Abby Macey Mchenry

Author:Ally Carter

“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.”

Tiny Flames Little Things Sparks Small Things Small Stuff Tiny Things Small Things In Life

Book:The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri

Source: The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri

“We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.”

Eye Attention Color Empathy Tiny Gestures Small Gestures

Book:The Stargirl Collection

Source: The Stargirl Collection

“An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation”

Situation Objects Keys Tiny Bullets Incentives Astonishing Power To Change

Book:Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“I didn’t want the person standing there, beside the bed, to have the same face I’d found so attractive at the airport. But you were there all right: the blue eyes, blondish hair, and tiny scar. Only you didn’t look beautiful this time. Just evil.”

Want Looks Persons Eye Beautiful Faces Evil Found Hair Bed Standing Blue Tiny Attractive Scar Airports Blue Eyes Standing There Same Face

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars.”

Whole Stars Behinds Tiny Galaxy Spinning Eyelids

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and wanting to escape so badly, I could have stared at them forever: They were amazingly beautiful, so dense and bright. My eyes could get lost up there if I left them looking long enough. [...] They swallowed me up. They were like a hundred thousand tiny candles, sending out hope.”

Ifs Long Enough Eye Beautiful Lost Left Stars Forever Arms Cold Thousand Hundred Tiny Candle Dense

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.”

Mind Hands Found Car Proud Weakness Males Feminist Tiny Employee Unkind Unfaithful

Author:Caitlin Moran

“Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend?”

Poor Losing Tiny Captains Resigned Quarry

Author:Gail Carriger

“Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.”

Grows Growing Up Planets Moon Tiny Like Me New Moon Such Is Life

Book:Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.”

Thinking Used Fall Walks Doors Minutes Pages Tiny Tricks Holes Cousin Triggers Dictionary Binding Trinity My Cousin Trinkets

Author:Janet Frame

“I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music”

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.”

“...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.”

Important Ends Details Tiny

Author:Daniel Handler

“Of course I saved you," she said. "I couldn't do without you." And because she was happy and flushed with magic Holly leaned down and kissed Artemis, magic sparking around the contact like tiny fireworks.”

Said Courses Magic Down And Saved Tiny Contact Without You Artemis Fireworks Hollies Sparking

Author:Eoin Colfer

“I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Left Tiny Invisible Bottles Nails Cleaning Jumping Polish Baking Sewing Hem Nail Polish

Author:Sharon Creech

“But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like these tiny fire ants we used to get in Portland. No matter how fast you liked them, there were always more, a steady stream of them, resistant, ever-multiplying. Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.”

Said Matter Hard Used Fire Tiny Streams Steady Ants Portland Multiplying

Author:Lauren Oliver

“Kylie didn't know which one of the fairies were doing it, or if it was both- she honestly didn't care- but the thousands of tiny pinpricks of panic started to fade. She felt safe and that was all that mattered.”

Ifs Knows Care Felt Safe Tiny Honestly Fairy Fades Panic

Book:Born at Midnight

Source: Born at Midnight

“Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history”

Ifs Way Humans Littles Important Moments Faces Grows Happened Tears Wind Mets Tiny Branches Just One Little Things Precise Leafs Human History

Author:Neil Cross

“Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight. 'You have your answer, Little Thief.”

Littles Hands Eye Faces Lost Bits Loses Answers Fronts Glasses Tiny Thieves Candlelight Attolia

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“My chauffer once told me that I would feel better in the morning, but when I woke up the two of us were still on a tiny island surrounded by man-eating crocodiles, and, as I'm sure you can understand, I didn't feel any better about it.”

Men Feels Stills Two Morning Eating Tiny Islands Feel Better Crocodiles Two Of Us

Author:Daniel Handler

“You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.”

Said Voice Tiny Desert Flats New Life Needles Accuracy Cactus

Book:The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning.”

Light Eye Sound Morning Millions Tree Wind Summer Dancing Tiny Remembered Laid Back Morning Light

Author:Patrick Carman

“She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow known exactly what she'd needed to hear. When their eyes locked, she once again realized how special he was. And just for a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.”

Ifs Years Moments Hands Eye Faces Known Air Sky Special Needed Summer Tiny Touched Locked Hung Amazed Fleeting Firefly Fleeting Moments Wisps

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Eventually she came. She appeared suddenly, exactly like she'd done that day- she stepped into the sunshine, she jumped, she laughed and threw her head back, so her long ponytail nearly grazed the waistband of her jeans. After that, I couldn't think about anything else. The mole on the inside of her right elbow, like a dark blot of ink. The way she ripped her nails to shreds when she was nervous. Her eyes, deep as a promise. Her stomach, pale and soft and gorgeous, and the tiny dark cavity of her belly button. I nearly went crazy.”

Thinking Way Long Done Eye Dark Crazy Promise Tiny Nervous Sunshine Stomach Laughed Pale Buttons Nails Her Eyes Jeans Belly Ink Gorgeous Ripped Elbows Moles Ponytails Belly Buttons

Author:Lauren Oliver

“There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.”

Way Luck Greed Tiny Selfishness Strongest Rip Woven Bad Luck Puncture

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“For all that I have kissed before, I have never felt anything like this. It is as if I have swallowed a tiny piece of the sun, its warmth and light reaching into every corner of my soul and chasing away the shadows. I surrender to that kiss - surrender to the strength and the courage and the sheer goodness of the man.”

Ifs Men Soul Light Felt Sun Pieces Kissing Goodness Shadow Corners Tiny Surrender My Soul Reaching Warmth Sheer Chasing

Author:R.L. LaFevers

“Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator . . . it would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I’d always be in the red.”

Knows Humans Kind Persons Wish Deals Know How Planets Easier Red Remains Tiny Icons Batteries Indicators

Book:Gray

Source: Gray

“Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.”

Ifs Trying Hard Bigs Successful Tiny Being Successful Masterpiece Big Picture True Success Trying So Hard

Author:Andy Andrews

“Oh diary, I love her, I love her, I love her so much. Jordana is the most amazing person I have ever met. I could eat her. I could drink her blood. She's the only person I would allow to be shrunk to microscopic size and explore me in a tiny submersible machine. She is wonderful and beautiful and sensitive and funny and sexy. She's too good for me, she's too good for anyone! All I could do was let her know. I said: "I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.”

Knows Persons Said Bigs Beautiful Wonderful Blood Fans Love You Drink Mets Machines Size Sexy Tiny Sensitive Diaries Most Amazing Love You More I Love You More Amazing Person

Author:Joe Dunthorne

“The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.”

Made Stories Universe Tiny Atoms

Book:The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories:

Source: The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories:

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”

Grace Thousand Tiny Bars Pockets Autumn Nurse Splits Soup Candy October Pumpkin Peas My Smile Autumn Leaves Candy Bar October And Fall Corduroy

Author:Rainbow Rowell

“What's so funny?" "Your panties have a bow," he said. I looked down. I was wearing a short tank top -not mine- and my blue panties with a narrow white strip of lace at the top and a tiny white bow. Would it have killed me to check what I was wearing before I pulled the blanket down? "What's wrong with bows?" "Nothing." He was grinning now. "I expected barbed wire. Or one of those steel chains." Wiseass. "I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft." "I bet.”

Said Enough White Mines Blue Expected Tiny Checks Secure Chains Bows Steel Wire Tanks Blanket Lace Grinning Panties Barbed Wire Tank Tops

Book:Magic Burns

Source: Magic Burns

“The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.”

World Feels Should Kind Littles Sometimes Moments Able Wanted Joy Asks Bits Five Too Much Alive Minutes Crosses Bones Tiny Miles Five Minutes Membranes

Author:Sara Zarr

“And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day - the snow melted to grass, the trees were reinhabitated with bird, leaf, and blossoms like a continent of butterflies breathing on the wind. And peering through, color sky from iron to blue. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in”

Source: Dandelion Wine

“In Ronan's hand, the mask was as thin as a sheet of paper, still warm from Adam's gasped breaths. Orphan Girl buried her face in his side, her body shaking with sobs. Her tiny voice was muffled: "Tollerere me a hic, tollerere me a hic..." Take me away from here, take me away from here.”

Stills Body Hands Faces Girl Sides Voice Paper Breaths Warm Tiny Mask Take Me Buried Adam Sheets Shaking Orphan Take Me Away

Book:The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

“Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.”

Knows World Found Bits Black White Color Singing Dresses Dancing Tiny Rainbow Ugliness

Book:Through the Dark: A Darkest Minds Collection

Source: Through the Dark: A Darkest Minds Collection

“When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.”

“That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.”

Ifs Way Looks Enough Water Forever Rocks Tiny One Way Persistent Another Way Never Change Drop Of Water

Author:Veronica Roth

“She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.”

People Made Mistake Terrible Murder Paid Tiny Arbitrary Careless

Author:Liane Moriarty

“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole.”

World Looks Sometimes Hard Whole Hands Bits Focus Tiny

Book:The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

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