Quotes about the trip
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“Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?”

Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist

People, Family

“And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Guy, Change

“That's my Shinobi Way”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

“Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head?”

Meg Cabot book Twilight

Source: Twilight

Thinking

“So which way now, Sacagawea?" - Annabeth to Rachel”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

“The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics."
Connie Rosolli”

Janet Evanovich book One for the Money

Source: One for the Money

“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction. These people with dead children, you want to tell them, go ahead. Blame yourself. There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

Love, Children, People, Books

“You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

World, Light

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Love, Hurt

“There are two ways to stay safe, Reen's voice whispered to her. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Well of Ascension

People

“If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Love, Understanding, Loss, Parting

“Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Emperor's Soul

Source: The Emperor's Soul

Smile, Heart

“Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Nightfall

Heart

“I liked Lost in Space,” Stefan said.
“The movie or the TV series?”
“The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie,” he said soberly. “It was better that way.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

"War Is God's Way of Teaching Us Geography" https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/19/geography/ at Quote Investigator <br class="br">"The comment 'War is God's way of teaching Americans geography,' is continually attributed to Ambrose Bierce. Biographer David E. Schultz, who has nearly all of Bierce's writing entered on his computer, cannot find this acerbic remark within that database." Ralph Keyes, The Quote Verifier (2007), p. 240 <br class="br">Misattributed

God, War, Funny

“The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

Thinking

“History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.”

Jill Lepore (1966) American historian

History

“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?”

Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist

“Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

Laughter, Madness

“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Firefight

People, Youth, Study, Painting

“She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy. Yes, that sounded good.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Life, Age, Sleep

“Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.”

Meg Rosoff (1956) American-British children's writer

Source: There Is No Dog

Life, Stupidity, Thinking, Heart

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

People, Science

“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.”

Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep

Source: The Big Sleep (1939), chapter 6

People, Dead

“… because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.”

Chuck Klosterman book Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

People, Truth, Dreams

“Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

Love

“The truth was, there was no way everything could be the Best. Sometimes, when it came to events and people, it had to be okay to just.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

People, Truth

“Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”

“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”

“The way you tell it, it is.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Truth

“The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Variant: I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.” - Margaret Thatcher

“Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Understanding

“I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Truth

“Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired.
"No, I'm not," she replied.
"Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.”

Catherine Ryan Hyde (1955) American writer

Source: Pay It Forward

People, Change

“I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.”

Lee Child book One Shot

Source: One Shot

Life

“I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a great way to relax.”

Jim Butcher book Small Favor

Source: Small Favor

“It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe."
Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Jealousy

“Please love me David the way I am. Please understand and love me.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Catherine in Ch. 1
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)

Love, Understanding

“He let her get almost all the way there, just staring, before he stumbled towards her. They ended in a rush and then fell to the ground together, arms locked around each other, each holding on as tightly as possible. Niether of them said a word.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Reunion

“If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.”

Alexander McCall Smith book The Right Attitude to Rain

Source: The Right Attitude to Rain

Thinking

“I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-"

"And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?"

"He died," Magnus said. There was a finality to the way he said it that spoke of a deeper grief than words could paint.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Girl, Painting

“Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Happiness

“The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Life, World, Understanding

“Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Time

“Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse

Source: The Laughing Corpse

Death, Strong

“But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Help

“Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easier not to know what obstacles were in the way.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

“Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998), Chapter 16 (p. 268)

“She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Dependency

“Do you live each day as if it's your first or your last? Either way you should probably have a diaper on.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”

John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

School, Time

“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town.”

John Fante book Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust (1939)

Love, Sadness, Angels, Flowers

“For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

“I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

Love, Life, Death, Dead

“Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer”

Linda Lael Miller (1949) American writer

Source: The Rustler

World

“Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: "This is the way to burn," the fuse seemed to be saying to the more docile, slow-witted candlewick. "Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn."

“Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

Books, Time, Reading

“Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.”

Janet Evanovich Plum Lucky

Source: Plum Lucky

Clothes

“Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking”

Reba McEntire (1955) American country music artist and actress

“You will have only one story,” she had said. “You’ll write your one story many ways. Don’t ever worry about story. You have only one.”

Elizabeth Strout (1956) American writer

Source: My Name is Lucy Barton

“I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Alcohol, Color

“Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself.”

Martin Heidegger book Being and Time

Source: Being and Time

“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: NOS4A2

Imagination, Childhood, Adulthood

“And I had no regrets about the way I turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not about the destination.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Variant: I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about journey, maybe, but not the destination.
Source: Dear John

“It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

Source: Waiting and Dating

Sense, Time