Quotes about the trip
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It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question:
“What are you thinking?”
It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

School, Question, Thinking

“Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have no understanding of them at all.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

Source: The Neverending Story

Children, Understanding, Passion

“Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Variant: It doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optismism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself

Life, Faith, Optimism, Business

“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Truth

“There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.
Hit.
Panic.
Flail.
Freeze.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Girl, Boy, Night

“Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

Singing, Country

“Oh my god, I am so awesome!" Leo bellowed.
"So awesome!" Echo yelled back.
"He is funny," a nymph ventured.
"And cute, in a scrawny way," another said.
"Scrawny?" Leo asked. "Baby I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

God, Baby

“It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Variant: Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that seem to be worst but in some ways, Its sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they're missed in your life.
Source: Something Borrowed

Life, World, Time

“Mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)

Thinking, Winter

“Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite.

'That's the advantage of being the only boy,' he (Zach) said. 'No one actually comes right out and makes rules like that.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Boy

“No other road, no other way, no day but today.”

Jonathan Larson (1960–1996) American composer and playwright

“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

Love, Children, Tree, Change

“if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“Jason’s heart lifted when he saw Nico di Angelo on the front lines with the Greeks, slashing his way through a crowd of two-headed men.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Men, Heart

“Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.”

Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter

Life

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Big Sur (1962)

Love, Life, Girl, Joy

“Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Truth, Feeling, Thinking, Light

“We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse we'de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don't laugh; they're bad news).”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

44 min 50 sec
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Blues For a Red Planet [Episode 5]
Context: The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together.

Beauty, Beauty

“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book The Way the Crow Flies

Source: The Way the Crow Flies

Understanding, Time

“I love you, you see… and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted……. Or not obviously”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Love, World, Fear

“I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

Science, Reading

“The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.”

Dan Greenberg (1965) American politician

Variant: There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

Cats, Personality

“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.”

Mary Roach book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Lying, Time, Dead

“The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Source: By The Light Of My Father's Smile

Love, Life, Memory

“She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Time

“Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Yeah, you were doing a real bang-up job of it. I particularly liked the way you were bruising his fists with your face. A few minutes more and I’m sure your heart would have been on the attack… after it was ripped from your chest. (Kat)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Heart

“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

Past

“Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

People, Nature

“If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.”

Nicole Krauss (1974) American novelist

Cute, Life

“By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.”

E.E. Cummings The Enormous Room

Source: The Enormous Room

“Give me everything you have," I told [Preston].
"Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it”

Eric Ambler book Dirty Story

Source: Dirty Story

Lie

“Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?'
Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.”

Neal Stephenson (1959) American science fiction writer

Source: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

People

“You know," she said, stirring her tea, "the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with him. And tell him you love him. Preferably while in bed."
I smirked and the tea almost came out of my nose. "He'd run like he was on fire.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Love, Sleep, Tea

“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Source: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Communication

“He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.”

Don DeLillo (1936) American novelist, playwright and essayist

World

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach….”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Wine, Singing, Happiness

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

love, Love, Feeling, Personality

“I'm with him, and he's with me, and that's the way it's meant to eternally be.”

Alyson Nöel book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

“Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Pain

“All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?'
'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Personality

“the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.”

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

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.
As you may expect, someone has died.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Tree, Training

“To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived — to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that — this doubtless is the right way to live.”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

Notebook entry, London, 1889-05-12.

Waiting

“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.”

Glen Cook Dreams of Steel

Source: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 23 (p. 310)
Context: “What do you want, Blade. Why are you doing this?”
He shrugged, an uncharacteristic action. “There are many evils in the world. I guess I’ve chosen one for my personal crusade.”
“Why such a hatred for priests?”
He didn’t shrug. He didn’t give me a straight answer, either. “If each man picks an evil and attacks it relentlessly, how long can evil persist?”
That was an easy one. Forever. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains. But I left him his illusion. If he had one. I doubted he did. No more than a sword’s blade does.

Evil

“Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1938) American journalist and playwright

Source: A Woman of Independent Means

Personality

“And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Suffering

“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Source: Light in my Darkness

God, Help

“I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.”

Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Source: The Sportswriter

Life, Dreams

“I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs book Tarzan of the Apes

Source: Tarzan of the Apes

Love

“The best way to get even is to forget.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Source: Mrs. Miracle

Forgetting

“Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Friendship, Family

“More like Cross blew your circuits during one of his sexathons. Still can’t get over that man’s stamina. Wish he’d swing my way and wear me out.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

“Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

People, Help

“The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don't really know what it's about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decided it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt.”

Janet Evanovich Hard Eight

Source: Hard Eight

Life

“I want to be outspoken. I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free. And I won’t.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

Hope

“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

Life

“Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.”

André Comte-Sponville (1952) French philosopher

Source: Presentations de La Philosophie

Thinking, Animals

“Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.”

Michael Mewshaw (1943) American writer

Feeling, Home, Personality

“… I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.”

Hubert Selby Jr. (1928–2004) American writer

Life

“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer ; Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées, Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher. "L’Albatros" [The Albatross] (translated by James McGowan, Oxford University Press, 1993) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99Albatros Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857) Source: Les Fleurs Du Mal

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