Quotes about the trip

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“Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.”

“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.”

“Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.”

“Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”

“A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.”

“A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you’re not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you’re beautiful, just the way you are.”

“Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.”

“how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?”

“The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.”

“Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.”

“bitter is a bad way to live!”

“You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows”

“Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself”

“He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same reasons: you were rare, exotic and entirely you. He said you're beautiful exactly the way are now.”

“Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.”

“This is the biggest damn iPod I've ever seen,' Claire said, which made him choke on his beer.
'Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before.'
'The way you're feeding it, I'm not so sure. You think you picked enough songs?”

“Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.”

“I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.”

“She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.”

“Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.”

“I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.”

“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”

“You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.”

“It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties.”

“If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.”

“As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs… The way I write is who I am, or have become…”

“A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.”

“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over."

"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”

“Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
-An-mei”

“Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.”

“Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love….”

“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64”

“I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room.”

“I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat.”

“As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.”

“For moral reasons… the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created… intentionally.”

“A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”

“Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.”

“Morning's great that way. You can cry yourself to sleep and wake up wondering what the fuss was over.”

“Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world…”

“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.”

“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.”

“There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.”

“Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.”

“He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.”

“You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.”

“Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.”

“But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is ialways the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.”

“Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.”

“I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.”

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”

“I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.”

“I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.”

“It was…the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make.
In every way, a walk to remember.”

“There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw”

“You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.”

“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”

“I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.”

“Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.”

“It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.”

“Screw reality. It don’t feed my dog. It don’t make my Porsche payments. It don’t get me laid. Bullshit does that…and I like it that way. (Leo)”

“Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.”

“when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.”

“The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I can’t suppress my excitement. Cinna has given me a great advantage. No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”

“It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.”

“What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.”

“The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.”

“Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent… in that way.”

“There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.”

“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”

“The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.”

“Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.”

“The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.”

“A little hope goes a long way.”

“Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.”

“Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.”

“Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”

“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".”

“I didn’t really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so, I’m on my way home, you know?”

“I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.”

“Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have
something else in mind. And…”
She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the
fourth answer?”
“Wait,” she said.”

“Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.”

“Grief makes you feel alone, but you're not. I know you don't believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can believe you're surrounded by people who love you, can't you?”

“This is the one and only
firmament; therefore
it is the absolute world.
There is no other world.
The circle is complete.
I am living in Eternity.
The ways of this world
are the ways of Heaven.”

“Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.”

“Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.”

“I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.”

“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”

“Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.”

“Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.”

“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living”

“If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.”

“To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.”

“Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.”

“What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?”

“P. P. S. I am giving you telepathic hugs.
P. P. P. S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.”

“Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.”