Quotes about going
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“So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort. When good enough gets the job done, go for it.”

Jason Fried software entrepreneur

Source: Rework

“Looks like I’m going to ruin your day, Big Boy. I choose to live my crappy life a little longer. (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

“He shook his head. “No. Because there's no one else out there who understands you like I do.”
I waited for more. “That's it? You're not going to elaborate on what that means?”
Those green eyes held me. “I don't think I need to.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Understanding, Thinking, Waiting

“Are you afraid of me?
Uh… yes.'
The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.”

Janet Evanovich book One for the Money

Source: One for the Money

People, Smile, Dead

“It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Go now. Alone. Or I make good on my promise.
-A”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Wicked

“Death is an inevitability, isn't it? You become more aware of that when you get to my age. I don't worry about it. I'm ready for it. When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn't complain. It's been good.”

Lemmy Kilmister (1945–2015) British singer-songwriter

“I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, pp. 373-374 (closing words)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Context: "One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice wasn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I finally have to let go.

“Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.”

Norton Juster (1929) American children's writer, academic, and architect

“A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.”

John Paul Jones (1747–1792) American naval officer

Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778), as quoted in The Naval History of the United States (1890) by Willis John Abbot, p. 82

“That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."
"I am," said Pooh.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool.

I go to a school for spies.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

School, Feeling, Girl

“You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“I can try to disable it," I said, "but if I mess up, this whole apartment is going to fill with gas. We'll die."

Thalia swallowed. " I trust you. Just… don't mess it up.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

“Katherine," he said. He was still smiling.
"Yes." She leaned closer.
"Katherine…"
"Yes, Damon?"
"Go to hell.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Fury / Dark Reunion

“The thing is- and I know this is going to sound strange-that I seem to love you sort of desperately”

L.J. Smith book Daughters of Darkness

Source: Daughters of Darkness

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Deep, Leadership, Back To Work

“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”

Karen Joy Fowler book Sarah Canary

Source: Sarah Canary

People, Madness

“Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“I turned to Thalia. ‘I’ll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?’
She sighed. ‘Fine. Let’s go catch this jerk.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

“Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Pale Demon

“It had been so good to see his enemy again. Positively heartwarming.

Hallmark really needed to start up a line of revenge cards, the kind that let you reach out to those you were going to come after with a vengeance.

- Lash”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Enshrined

“How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

School, Idea, Time

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

For Friend, Disappointment, Way

“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.”

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

Source: Nature and Selected Essays

Star, Solitude, Reading

“I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“So you're not going to speak tonight," Tessa said. "At all."
"Not unless you instruct me to," said Will.
"This evening sounds as if it might be better than I thought.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap
cheat sheet.”

Janet Evanovich book To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

“She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

Understanding, Parting

“But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me… and go on living without me.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

“If things were different, if there were no revolution, no war, no threads of light, if he were rich, would he go back to London with her and ask for her hand in marriage? He smiled, for the answer was simple. Yes, yes, he would.”

Sally Gardner book The Red Necklace

Source: The Red Necklace

Marriage, War, Smile, Light

“Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.”

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

“Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Motivational, Back To Work

“I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Should alcoholics go to liquor stores?”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.”

Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright

“Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter Thirteen: Frankfurt, Door, Independent Operants

People, Bird, Sleep, Singing

“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Happy, Peaceful, Freedom, Happiness

“Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

“No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

Feeling, Hell, Thinking

“I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1

“Jealous of the actors now, are we?"
"What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable."
Oh, this was going to be good.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

People, World, Understanding, Thinking

“Should I pull on a shirt?" he asked with hint of amusement. I WILL NOT BLUSH. "No." He'd be doing the world a favor if he never wore a shirt again, but I wasn't going to tell him that part. "You're fine.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

“So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know….. what truly matters….”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”

Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

Love, Making love, Reading

“You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Lord of Misrule

“The look he was going for was Friendly Suburban Dad, because that’s what he was, but he suspected he’d achieved only
Cialis Guy.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

“He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: A Clean Well Lighted Place

“And you know," Jeanne said, looking down at Sylvia with her hands on her hips, "that's how I want to go. Taking my own way out… and totally pissing everybody off at the end.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Black Dawn

“A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.”

Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator

Death, People, Thinking, Betrayal

“Maybe you should go home and rest," Simon told Meg. Maybe he could go home with her and they could cuddle for a while or play a game. Or she could watch a movie with him and pet him.”

Anne Bishop book Murder of Crows

Source: Murder of Crows

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Life, Hate, Feeling

“I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“This is going to be a really long couple of months if we worry about ever little twinge."

"You just tried to throw up your liver."

"I did not."

So you were working on your pancreas?”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The King

“You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“You've got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

“Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the brain-eating thing. Then they're going to IKEA, I guess”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

“Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Source: Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Five

“A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”

Kelly Link (1969) American writer

“Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

“Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

“I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

Love, Soul, Singing

“To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that’s a trophy enough for a guy’s ego, huh?”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Guy, Girl, Memory

“Taylor Markham," said Raffaela, "I'm going to say a prayer for you." And although I wanted to mock her and explain I didn't believe in anything or anyone, I realised that no one had ever prayed for me before. So I let her.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.”

Cameron Crowe (1957) Academy Award-winning American writer and film director

Source: Almost Famous

“If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.”

Robin McKinley book The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Hero and the Crown

“The further in you go, the bigger it gets.”

John Crowley book Little, Big

Source: Little, Big

“You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You (1998)

“I buy wine according to the bottle design. After I get down the first glass it all tastes okay to me so I figure you go for something classy to look at on the table”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Source: Smokin' Seventeen

“Anything worth having is going to be hard”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: The Outlaw Demon Wails

“It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.”

Jean Genet The Balcony

Source: The Balcony

“When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

“The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.”

Jack Kerouac book The Subterraneans

Source: The Subterraneans

“Not my favourite topic, Smedley."
"Simon," said Simon. "if I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name."………

"Alright, everybody. Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea."
"Who's Sheldon?" Said Isabelle.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.”

Anne Rice book Memnoch the Devil

Source: Memnoch the Devil

“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good—only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 23.

“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Feeling, Happiness

“I don't like you two going off on you won. Just remember: behave. If I hear about any funny business, I will ground you until the Styx freezes over.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

“I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing.
But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: Royal Blood

“Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: Just One Wish

“There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

Maya Angelou book All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Source: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“But I want to feel like life matters. I
had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

“And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

“Life likes to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go!”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

Alcohol, Star, Thinking

“Calvin's Dad: I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Revenge of the Baby-Sat

Thinking, Adulthood

“Listen carefully, I’m going to say three words.”
“I love you?”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

“Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Were you ever actually going to leave New York, or were you just saying that to get her to finally make a move?”
“Clary,” said Luke, “I am shocked that you would suggest such a thing.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.”

Steven Erikson book The Bonehunters

Source: The Bonehunters