Quotes about the trip
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“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

World, Thinking

“A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake

Love, Past

“I didn’t hear him behind me. I felt him. Electric. Wild. One foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out.
And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was. Where was I supposed to put that in my head?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Sex

“The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it."

You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

Money, Thinking

“Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.”

Barry Hughart book Bridge of Birds

Source: Bridge of Birds

Truth, Error

“He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

“I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Time

“Never offend an enemy in a small way.”

Gore Vidal book Julian

Source: Julian

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

Remarks During Signing of Defense Bill http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/aug/06/uselections2004.usa2 (5 August 2004). <br class="br">2000s, 2004

People, Thinking, Country

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

World

“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Snow Country

Source: Snow Country

“The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.”

Chip Heath (1963) American writer

Source: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

“Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way”

Paul Theroux (1941) American travel writer and novelist

Source: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

Confidence, Failure, Cooking

“The door was the way to… to… The Door was The Way.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Context: The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.

“I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Second Jungle Book

Stanza 1.
The Second Jungle Book (1895), If— (1896)
Source: If: A Father's Advice to His Son
Context: If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

Hate, Waiting

“Everyone is special in their own way.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.”

Douglas Adams book The Meaning of Liff

Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff

People

“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.”

Helen Oyeyemi book Boy, Snow, Bird

Source: Boy, Snow, Bird

People

“I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Chance, Perfection

“This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Time

“But as I guided her to my belt and then laid her down on the bed, I knew which way our path would go. Webe together forever. We had to be. There was no way that all these feelings between us could ever dim or be defeated.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Feeling

“We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Love

“And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment..”

Loretta Chase (1949) American writer

Source: Silk Is for Seduction

Love, Passion, Heart, Parting

“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You (1998)

“Michael held me when I got inside, because I was shaking all over. That felt so good. Warm all the way down. Did I mention Michael’s feet? They’re all the way sexy, and he’s always barefoot – he hates shoes. I wish he hated pants and shirts, too.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Hate, Shoe

“How did you go bankrupt?' Bill asked.
'Two ways,' Mike said. 'Gradually and then suddenly.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Book 2, Ch. 13
Mike's response is often misquoted as "It occurs first very slowly, then all at once."
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)

“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Love

“In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.”

Charlie Chaplin book My Autobiography

Source: My Autobiography

“The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Revenge of the Baby-Sat

“He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.”

Alice Hoffman book Blackbird House

Source: Blackbird House

Books, Reading

“Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

World, Peace, Learning

“Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Hope, Music, Feeling, Time

“Yeah, but I don’t want to be in pain, and I definitely don’t want to suffer.” – Nick
“Well…The only way to avoid them is to die.” – Death
“Okay, let’s change the topic now. Oh, look! A chicken.” – Nick”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Death, Pain, Suffering, Change

“YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

“That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Life, Change

“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 19 (p. 109)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Money, People, Time

“I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

People, Feeling, Joy, Hurt

“And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug!”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

“Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Life, Hope

“Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Change, Forgetting

“ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

World, Past, Future

“The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Life

“And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

Boy

“The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Source: My Life on the Road

Life, Reality, Heart

“The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.”

Katharine Graham (1917–2001) American publisher

“The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Despair

“Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be.”

Richard Marcinko book Rogue Warrior

Source: Rogue Warrior

Pain

“I know that look.” Jack shook his head ruefully. “Doan worry; she’ll
give you your balls back as soon as she’s done getting her way.”

Kresley Cole book Dead of Winter

Source: Dead of Winter

“When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.”

Michel Houellebecq book Atomised

Source: The Elementary Particles

Thinking, Chance, Past

“Don't worry, I won't bite. At least not in the way you're afraid of.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.”

Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer

Reading

“He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is through a long and vivid revenge fantasy.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Exercises, Imagination, Revenge

“To do something very common, in my own way.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

“Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Source: Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys

Guy, Sport, Wedding

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Love, Books, Thinking

“Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.”

Matthew Fox (1966) American actor

Life

“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”

Anthony Trollope book Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 20

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

World

“Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way… but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Fear

“Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason”

Jimmy Fallon (1974) American TV Personality

Star

“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Pain

“A little magic can take you a long way.”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

“Even when there were no more options for the body, the heart's wishes find a way out, and as with all warmth, love rises. Besides, the will to fly was in the nature of the soul, so its home had to be up above”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Source: Lover Eternal

Love, Home, Soul, Nature

“The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

“There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Metropolitan Police Spokesperson
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)

Books, Quotes

“Why didn’t you talk about whether women are funny or not?

I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn’t.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Women

“The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

God

“And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”

Frank Herbert book Heretics of Dune

Source: Heretics of Dune

Secret, Thinking

“I've been going a long time now
along the way I've learned some things.

You have to make the good times yourself
take the little times and make them into big times
and save the times that are all right
for the ones that aren't so good.”

Rod McKuen (1933–2015) American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer

Source: Listen to the Warm

Learning, Time

“I flutter all ways, and fly in none.”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

Flying

“Noooo, there’s no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!” — Urahara Kisuke”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 06

“Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Time of My Life

Life

“Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“It's a road!"
I patted his back." It's a lovely road. Now which way do we go?"
Corey looked one way, the brown ribbon extending into emptiness. He looked the other way, saw the same thing and his shoulders slumped.
"Damn.”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: The Calling

Love

“Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she’d never even suspected that it could feel this way.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Feeling, Kiss

“We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.”

Shirley MacLaine (1934) American actress

World

“There was no twinkle in his eyes.
"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough."
Tiger Lily blinked at him, and she didn't understand how anyone could only love a part. Her greedy heart didn't work that way.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love, Understanding, Heart, Parting

“why can't you just get out of here and leave me alone?"i bellowed.
"i can't!" dylan shouted back, his face twisted with an anger i'd never seen from him.
"you can,"i said through gritted teeth."just point your wings that way and flap!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

Anger

“It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way”

Robertson Davies book Fifth Business

Source: Fifth Business

World

“You can never love the same way twice”

Hisaya Nakajo (1973) Manga artist

Love

“There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Death

“Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.”

Ha-Joon Chang book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Source: 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

“People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world… But you have to do what's right for you.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Source: Fly Away Home

People, World

“No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

“I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his
passion. He must have looked like an
earthquake walking down the street.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

Music, Passion

“Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Death, Personality

“Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft," Grace commented. "Is it after your wife?"
"My gun."
Grace stared at him. "You named your plane after a?"
"It was a very good gun.”

Gordon Korman book Vespers Rising

Source: Vespers Rising

“Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.”

Ian Fleming book Goldfinger

Source: Goldfinger

Money, Time

“Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Asleep

Source: Asleep

People, Color, Change, Dependency

Quotes about the trip page 45

Quotes about the trip
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