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“I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.”

Thinking Dream Night Morning Baseball Wake Up Coaching Only Time Baseball Games Great Baseball Little League Playing Baseball Baseball Hitting Baseball Opening Day Little League Baseball Opening Day Baseball

Author:Carl Yastrzemski

“He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.”

Thinking Two Wish Dark Forever Wind Listening Cold Bed Wake Up Filled Peaceful Remembered Heat Warmth Waking Rushing Quilts Cold Outside

Book:The Tommyknockers

Source: The Tommyknockers

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”

“Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?”

Thinking Made Wake Up Valuable Idiot

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”

Thinking Life Doe Made Truth Life Is Wake Up Yesterday

Book:No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.”

“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?”

Thinking Play Seems Sleep Simple Walks Watches Wind Wake Up Tired Winter Snow Trash Going To Sleep I'm Tired

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.”

Thinking Want Years Facts Morning Gone Comfort Wake Up

Book:I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

Source: I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Persons Light Remember Faces Morning Doubt Fire Trouble Sky Streets Okay Balls Wake Up Praise East Unsure Light Within

Book:No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.”

Ifs Thinking Men Believe Persons Country Choices Hours Sun Groups Tree Ready Tomorrow Mets Bed Gains Wake Up Hungry Sympathetic Stumps

Book:The Wrath of Ezra

Source: The Wrath of Ezra

“I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.”

Thinking Want Running Lasts Reading Next Wake Up Awake Terrified Wildflowers

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.”

“And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.”

Thinking Mean Doe Ends Reason Today Asks Powerful Mistake Impossible Wake Up Smell Coffee Irony Reason Why Norm Pins Really Mean Implicit

Book:A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

“How can non-existence get sick of itself? Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the replacement of the usual morning waking with something else, something quite impossible even to think about. We don't even have the instrument to do it, because our mind & our world are the same thing.”

Thinking World Mind Mean Doe Existence Morning Impossible Sick Wake Up Instruments Our World Waking Usual Replacements Non Existence

Author:Victor Pelevin

“I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.”

Thinking Knows Way May Morning Wake Up

Author:Stephen Fry

“And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.”

People Thinking Life Night Sides Black Dark Special Moon Wake Up Scared Holes Dark Side Something Special Black Hole

Author:Mark Haddon

“I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.”

Thinking Writing Dream Blood Wake Up Morbid Emo

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will be, that one day you'll wake up and realize that you've got things figured out. You never figure it out. Ever." - Isabel Spellman attempting to explain growing up to her sister Rae”

People Ifs Thinking War Would Be Realizing Growing Up Growing Crime Figures Like You Grew One Day Grew Up Wake Up Divorce Civil War Attempting

Author:Lisa Lutz

“I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can't even imagine. I don't want that. I don't want to be like that. I don' want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever.”

“Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.”

Thinking World Way Believe Different Reason Stories Fiction Morning Imagine Broken Wake Up Technique Vanity Narrative Nonfiction Imagine That Every Morning Fiction And Nonfiction Broken World

Book:War Talk

Source: War Talk

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Stuff Secret Morning Laughing Share Wake Up Lunch First Person Your Best Friend

Book:Loser

Source: Loser

“None of it seems real. Who knows? Maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s actually happening to someone else. Maybe it’s something I imagined. Maybe soon I’m going to wake up and find everything fixed with Lissa and Dimitri. We’ll all be together, and he’ll be there to smile and hold me and tell me everything ‘s going to be okay. Maybe all of this really has been a dream. But I don’t think so.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Real Dream Seems Together Happenings Okay Wake Up Fixed Hold Me Dimitri

Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.”

Thinking Way Night House My Own Morning Happened Bed Wake Up Every Night Handmaids Tale

Book:The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“If you also thinks it means I wake up every morning wondering what I did to deserve having you back in my life, well, you'd be right about that too.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Mean Wonder Morning Deserve Wake Up Every Morning

Author:Julie James

“[on the BMW X3] If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning and think you are an onion, here's your car.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Morning Car Wake Up Insane Onions Bmw Top Gear

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“I’m not a child. Don’t talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you’re worse. You’re an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)”

People Thinking World Children Stills Helping Beautiful Nice Humility Adults Wake Up Filled Sake Smell Being Nice Talk To Me Beautiful Places Don't Talk To Me

Book:Born Of Night: Number 1 in series

Source: Born Of Night: Number 1 in series

“I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.”

Thinking Knows Years I Can Helping Eye Asks Can Do Hours Half Practice Know How Conditions Wake Up Take Me Know Me Zombie Exploits

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.”

Thinking Should Sometimes Would Be Used Memories One Day Wake Up Forgotten

Book:Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?”

People Thinking Knows Jesus Christ Morning Jesus Christ Wake Up Shoes

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.”

Thinking Night Figures Program Wake Up Missions Teenager Waking Bees

Author:Joan Bauer

“Don't make fun of her," the Duke said. "She needs gentle encouragement. Carla, baby, we love you. You are such a good car. And we believe in you one hundred percent." ... "Don't listen to him, Carla. You're gonna do this." ... "I love you, Carla. You know that, don't you? I wake up every morning and the first thing I think is that I love Tobin's mom's car. I know that's weird, baby, but I do. I love you. And I know you can do this." ... "Carla," the Duke said, "it's time to tell you the truth. I'm in love with you. I want to be with you, Carla. I've never felt this way about a c-”

“I love the sound of a brand-new bottle of coke when you pry the lid off and it starts to fizz. Whenever I hear that sound, I think of roses, and of sitting together with someone you care about and of Romeo and Juliet waking up somewhere and saying to each other, weren't we jerks? And then having all that be over. That's what I think of when I hear the sound of a brand-new bottle of Coke being opened”

Thinking Care Together Sound Sitting Wake Up Rose Brands Bottles Waking Jerk Coke Juliet Brand New Sitting Together

Book:The Wednesday Wars

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her”

Thinking Morning Wake Up Waking Every Morning

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'”

Thinking Morning Cat Wake Up Wow

Author:Jeb Bush

“I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Said Important Effort Morning Focus Missing Flower Months Wake Up Here And Now Dew Make Me Happy Petals Folding

Author:Dan Buettner

“i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.”

People Thinking Knows Play Able Realizing Roles Watches Audience Wake Up Casts

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.”

Thinking Looks Morning Feet Depends Bed Wake Up Edges Legs Swings Feet On The Ground

Author:John Green

“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another.”

“I wake up wating you. I fall asleep wanting you. I watch a magnificent sunrise and can think only of sharing it with you. I glimpse a piece of amver and see your eyes. Jillian, I've caught a disease, and the fever abates only when I'm near you.”

Thinking Eye Fall Watches Pieces Disease Wake Up Caught Magnificent Sunrise Glimpse Fever Wanting You

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“[I]t just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left. Like my lungs were made of lead. Like I can't even think about starting to care about anything. Like I either wish that they were all dead, or I was, because I can't stand the pull of all that history between us. That's before I even pick up the phone. I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.”

Thinking Way Want Feels Made I Can Feelings Care Left Wish Picks Wake Up Tired Starting Phones Lungs Because I Can

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend.”

Thinking World Believe Littles Long Stills Kids Past Lying Realizing Wonder Missing One Day Long Time Adults Built Wake Up Floats Make Believe Being A Kid

Author:Virginia C. Andrews

“Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.”

Thinking Stills Real Dream Realizing Taken Crazy Wake Up Our Time Bless Being Real Going Crazy

Author:R. D. Laing

“After two solid weeks of waking up in Damen's bed, wrapped in Damen's arms, you'd think I'd have grown used to it by now. But nope. Not even close. Though I could get used to it. I'd like to get used to it.”

Thinking Two Used Week Arms Bed Wake Up Waking

Book:Everlasting

Source: Everlasting

“And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.”

Thinking Way Feels Years Firsts Stills Moments Age Remember Realizing My Own Morning Five Changed Wake Up Core My Own Life

Author:Douglas Coupland

“If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself...I know you don't believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I'd want to be your knight in shining armor. You've been through so much. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain. I don't want you to worry about anything. You just wake up in the morning, that's all you have to do and I'll take it from there...There's one condition...You have to be my wife”

“I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.”

Thinking Pain Remember Joy Knowing Wake Up Yesterday

Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“Ciel: *Over Sebastian's 'dead' body* THAT'S AN ORDER! WAKE UP! RIGHT NOW! Sebastian: *thinking* But I am awake.”

Thinking Body Order Right Now Wake Up Awake

Author:Yana Toboso

“One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy. Your parents want you to have health insurance. Your friends want you to be a good friend. But everyone’s thinking about their own problems and nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, ‘Boy, I sure hope Sam finishes that chapter and gets one step closer to his dream of being a working writer.’ Nobody does that. If you want to write, it has to come from you. If you don’t want to write, that’s great. Go do something else. That was a very liberating moment for me.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Doe Moments Problem Dream Bigs Care Parent Steps Boys Morning Novel Wake Up Revelations Chapters Good Friend Liberating Nobody Cares

Author:Sam Lipsyte

“You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Reason Stories Today Guy Evil Morning Worst Hero Wake Up Justified Monstrous Good Guy Knots Tangled Evil People Evil Things

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.”

Thinking Real Return Wake Up Being Yourself Think For Yourself

Author:Bryant H. McGill

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