Quotes about going
page 58

“No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God

“What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Time

“« Are you hungry, baby?” Curran asked.
“Starving.”
“I think we should go to dinner.”
“Great idea.”
“What are you going to wear?”
“My badass face.”
“Good choice,” he said. »”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Idea, Thinking, Baby

“Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself."
"Are you trying to tempt me?"
"Ha-ha.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.”

Theodore Roethke The Waking

The Waking (1953), The Waking
Source: The Collected Poems
Context: This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

Sleep, Learning

“Get back on the bike and tell me where to go."
"I'll tell you where to go," I muttered sourly, and he laughed.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

“I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Thinking, Madness

“Now tell me something. What’s your word for husband?”
“Hellren, I suppose. The short version is just hell.”
She laughed softly. “Go figure.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Source: Dark Lover

Hell

“If you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.”

Charles Bukowski book Hot Water Music

Source: Hot Water Music

Way

“Now, see," Wes said, nodding at my plate, "this is going to blow your mind."
I looked at him. "It's a waffle, not the second coming.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“You’re not going to cry, are you?
- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Cry

“She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Love

“A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

Sea, Madness

“The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly… "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.”

Barry Hughart book Bridge of Birds

Source: Bridge of Birds

Science

“There is nowhere morning does not go.”

Leah Hager Cohen American writer

Source: Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things

“You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

“Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Death, War, Fools

“… no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love every day for the rest of my life.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Love, Life

“What's wrong?"
I didn't say a word."
Something's up. What is it?"
Nothing."
His head turned, gaze going to mine. "Yeah?"
Yes."
A snort and he returned to his bowl…”

Kelley Armstrong book The Summoning

Source: The Summoning

“Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven't friends. Go find some.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

Speed

“I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,
vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep,
downward, in the soaked guts of the earth,
absorbing and thinking, eating each day.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Thinking, Sleep

“Our judgments, like our watches, none
go just alike, yet each believes his own”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

“Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“Go home, Gideon. Please."
"I am home." He caught me from behind and buried his face in mu soaked hair. "I'm with you.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Home

“We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Source: So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

Truth, Soul

“Louis-Cesare slowly pulled himself into a half-standing position against the side of the winery.'What? Did you think one little mage was going to do me in?' He swallowed hard. 'Hell, that was just a warm-up.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Midnight's Daughter

Hell, Thinking

“He leaned close, rubbing his bearded cheek against my ear. 'And how about a sweet kiss, now, for the brave lads of the clan MacKenzie? Tulach Ard!'
Erin go bragh,' I said rudely, and pushed with all my strength.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Kiss

“CONJUGATE THIS:
I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not
that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like
to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be
extremely good at. It can be anything.”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

People

“People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do… Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.”

Jacqueline Woodson (1963) American writer

Source: The Dear One

People, Time

“To ask for another relationship, or another job, is not particularly helpful if we’re going to show up in the new situation exactly as we showed up in the last one.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: Return to Love

Help

“I’m going to be exposed, aren’t I? (Acheron)
I don’t know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don’t want to go blind. (Savitar)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“Um, dad?" I called "How's it going?"
"Percy!" Annabeth whispered. "We're in a hurry!”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“Feeling scared yet? Want to go somewhere safe?" "It won't help, will it? We'd just run into Godzilla or the Vampire from Hell. Trouble just follows you around." "Hey, Trouble. Let's find out what your mysterious Indian wanted us to know.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Feeling, Hell, Help

“I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.”

Dean Karnazes (1962) American distance runner

Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

Hell

“It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Men

“Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?”

Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author

Shoe

“I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair.”

Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer

People, Hope, Fish, Baby

“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Feeling

“Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.”

Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer

Source: Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday,
Go take your damned tomorrow!”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Love, Way

“I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Past, Forgetting

“When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

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

Change

“I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.”

Sarah Vowell book Unfamiliar Fishes

Source: Unfamiliar Fishes

“Pheoby, yuh got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God and they got tuh find out about livin fuh theyselves.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Context: "Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now.""Yes indeed. You know if you pass some people and don't speak tuh suit 'em dey got tuh go way back in yo' life and see whut you ever done. They know mo' 'bout yuh than you do yo' self. They done 'heard' 'bout you just what they hope done happened.""If God don't think no mo' 'bout 'em than Ah do, they's a lost ball in de high grass."

Janie and Phoeby, Ch. 1, p. 16.

God

“Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone. The people on the other end aren't qualified to fix your problems, they don't know what they're doing either!!! ~ -Joyce Meyers”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

People, Problem

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They are not like aches or wounds; they are more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there is not enough material.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Babylon Revisited

"Babylon Revisited"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

Family, Family