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“We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”

Arthur Machen (1863–1947) Welsh author and mystic

Source: The Terror

Life, Dreams, Star, Thinking

“And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”

Roald Dahl book Matilda

Source: Matilda

Music, Understanding

“Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.”

Lloyd Alexander book The Iron Ring

Source: The Iron Ring

Thinking, Time

“Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“I don't know what your damage is, but in case you've failed to notice, we're in a bit of trouble here. Can you focus on something other than trying to get into my pants?" His lips curled. " I can multitask.”

Alexandra Ivy (1961) American novelist

Source: Beyond the Darkness

“You can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Love, Truth, Imagination

“Inez? I'm sorry I bit you," he said with sincere regret, and then inspiration made him add, "Bastien made me do it.”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: Vampires are Forever

Sincerity

“There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit.
- Tayend”

Trudi Canavan book The Novice

Source: The Novice

Truth

“He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits—a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed.”

Alyson Nöel book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

Light

“… even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.

- Mr. Penderwick”

Jeanne Birdsall (1951) American children's writer

Source: The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

Selfishness

“It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

People, Thinking

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”

Malcolm Gladwell book Blink

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Problem

“I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share.”

George Carlin When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Source: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Feeling, Thinking, Effort, Personality

“How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.”

Christopher Hitchens book Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Question, Thinking

“Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

Girl

“I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it… why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Source: One True Thing

Love

“I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Love, Pain, Friendship, Hell

“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

People, Memory

“For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Interview with Don Swaim (1987)

Hunger, Art

“Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

World, Courage, Change

“Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 10, Counting Sheep

Question

“You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

Future

“Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”

Norman Mailer book Advertisements for Myself

"Hip, Hell, and the Navigator" in Western Review No. 23 (Winter 1959); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988) edited by J. Michael Lennon.
Source: Advertisements for Myself

“Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been”

Angela Carter book Wise Children

Source: Wise Children

Star, Sense

“It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Variant: It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Source: Room (novel) (2010)

Hurt

“What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.”

Alexandra Fuller (1969) Zimbabwean writer

Source: Scribbling the Cat

Dance

“And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

Love, Way, Soul, Anger

“But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Food

“It was a bit on the frantic side, maybe because neither one of us had done the metal preparation, so we were both thinking”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Thinking

“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

Life

“I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

“The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.”

Vik Muniz (1961) Brazilian artist

Beauty, Time

“I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Thinking

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Training

“Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said.
‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny bits in them?’ Miss Honey asked.
‘I do,’ Matilda said. ‘Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.”

Roald Dahl book Matilda

Source: Matilda

Love, Children, Books, Thinking

“Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.”

Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) film director

Source: My Last Sigh

“Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: All These Things I've Done

Love, Life

“Rachel bit her lip. "I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test and I start spouting a prophecy in the middle of geometry class? Gods, that would be embarrassing.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

God, Hope

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

Picture Parade, BBC (5 July 1960)

Life

“Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.”

George MacDonald book The Princess and the Goblin

Source: The Princess and the Goblin

Star, Night

“… Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Life, World, Feeling, Learning

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!”

Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Variant: "Maybe Christmas...", he thought, "... Doesn't come from a store."
"Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!"
Source: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957)

Christmas, Christmas