Quotes about evening
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“She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)”

Elizabeth Strout book Olive Kitteridge

Source: Olive Kitteridge

People

“Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD… But you didn't even try.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

Faith

“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

“A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“Memory is identity…. You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: Nothing to Be Frightened Of

Life, Death, Memory, Forgetting

“I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?”

Matt Groening (1954) American cartoonist

“We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”

Chris Bohjalian (1962) American novelist

Source: Secrets of Eden

Game

“People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore…”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

People

“The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

Waiting, Personality

“We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Feeling, Mood

“It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita”

Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate

Source: Like Water for Chocolate

Past

“Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”

Marguerite Duras book The Malady of Death

Source: The Malady of Death

Love, Way

“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

“People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

People, World, Change

“We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.”

Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

Personality

“Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me—not if I could help it.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Death, Help

“The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.”

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

Source: VALIS (1981)

“But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Love

“Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Women, Hope, Girl

“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Stupidity, Dreams, Reality

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

"The Salt of the Earth"
Source: The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)

“I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.”

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

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

Feeling, Solitude

“So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the West today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.”

Niall Ferguson (1964) British historian

"Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners don't understand how vulnerable freedom is'" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/20/niall-ferguson-interview-civilization, The Guardian, February 20, 2011.

Understanding, Sense, Freedom

“Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are."
"Land mines?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Learning

“Even a cornered rabbit will fight with teeth and claws.”

Alison Goodman (1966) Australian science-fiction writer

Source: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

Fight

“Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.”

Anthony Kiedis book Scar Tissue

Source: Scar Tissue

Death, Heart

“Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.”

Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 333.
Context: The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

Way, Animals

“For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.”

Jean Rhys (1890–1979) novelist from Dominica

Time, Sincerity

“Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

Cry

“I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.”

Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County

Source: The Bridges of Madison County

Dreams, Feeling, Time

“And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,
Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain;
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,
How could I seek the empty world again?”

Emily Brontë book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Pain, World, Drink, Memory

“Amy gritted her teeth. "King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!"
Jonah looked at his dad. "Do we have souvenir chamber pots?"
"No." His dad whipped out his phone. "I'll make the call.”

Rick Riordan The Maze of Bones

Source: The Maze of Bones

“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Love, Thinking, Chance

“You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,
and I smile, and am silent,
and even my soul remains quiet:
it lives in the other world
which no one owns.
The peach trees blossom,
The water flows.”

Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period

World, Smile, Home, Soul

“The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

People, Thinking, Reality

“[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.”

Charles Taylor (1931) Canadian philosopher

Source: Multiculturalism

Life

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Heart, Gratitude

“And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

God

“A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Water

“Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.”

Barbara Taylor Bradford (1933) British author

Source: Being Elizabeth

“I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

Source: At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom: Stories

“I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the present in a vain effort to stop its becoming the past.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Effort, Time, Past

“After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.”

Sandra Dallas American writer

Children, World

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

George Lois (1931) American art director, designer and author

God, World, Passion

“Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

People, Silence

“Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Hate, Stupidity

“I'm not even going to try.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know."”

Penn Jillette (1955) American magician

p. xiii http://books.google.com/books?id=KsI3sswEg14C&pg=PR13&dq=%22you+don't+have+to+be+brave+or+a+saint%22 <br class="br">2010s, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales (2011) <br class="br">Source: God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales