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“I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference.”

Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman

Source: Go Set a Watchman

Justice, Understanding, Drawing

“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.”

David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy

Source: Fall of Kings

Heart

“Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Pain, Thinking

“So consider your options, make your choice and call me home.”

Kelley Armstrong book Living with the Dead

Source: Living with the Dead

Home

“I'm in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree"— probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

"The Early Essays".
Without Feathers (1975)

God, Tree

“There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.”

Christopher Paul Curtis book Bud, Not Buddy

Source: Bud, Not Buddy

Sense, Time, Fight

“Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante)
Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Unleash the Night

“Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic”

Guillermo del Toro book The Night Eternal

Source: The Night Eternal

Personality

“When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Time

“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

Way

“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, Way

“We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.”

Clive Barker book Galilee

Source: Galilee

Sadness, Light

“He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.”

Ian McEwan book Amsterdam

Source: Amsterdam

Sleep, Night

“We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.”

Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer

Source: Too Young to Die

World, Sense, Time

“It just makes me wonder what subject you blame for talking to me every night.'
I'm still settling on an answer for that one. Probably Chemistry.
Jesus Christ. I can't believe I just wrote that.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Sloppy Firsts

Christ, Night

“Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

People, Art

“Sure," said Adrian. "I bet going in there and kicking down the door will change their minds. Take Rose with you, and you guys'll make a really good impression.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Change

“that's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself". (p. 717)”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

Source: The Hour I First Believed

History, Understanding, Sense

“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, Way, Time

“But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Religion

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Men, Money, World, Mountain

“What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Madness

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

The alchemist, p. 141.
Variant: There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)

Fear, Dreams, Motivational, Business

“a good book
can make an almost
impossible
existence,
liveable

( from 'the luck of the word' )”

Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Books

“strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

Love, World, Religion, Fight

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Bee, Beauty, Peaceful

“1. What makes your family unique?”

Patrick Lencioni (1965) American writer

The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life

Family

“Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?”

Vikram Seth book An Equal Music

Source: An Equal Music

Love

“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Source: Delta of Venus

Love, Way

“… classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic scholars as accessible today as they were then.”

Jim Al-Khalili (1962) British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster

Change

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Life, Personality

“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Second Helpings

“Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken… a useless thing. Then make an offer.”

Billie Letts book Where the Heart Is

Source: Where the Heart Is

“When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

People, Game

“I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Time

“There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Understanding

“Amazing how he could make her feel. Safe in a vacant lot, warm in the middle of the night. Just being this close to him, being able to touch his thoughts and feel his presence, was comforting-and dizzying.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Visions

Feeling, Night

“Well, yeah. You said you wanted Italian. See. Chef Boyardee. He makes one the best stuff. (Tabitha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

“I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.”

John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist

Source: The Summit of the Years

Books, Flowers, Nature, Bee

“It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

Source: The Complete Persepolis

Fear

“Yeah sure, why not?"i said, making a mental note to get a good look at his wings. For all I knew, they were remote-controlled and duct taped to his back.”
-max”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

III, 7
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book III

“Those that go searching for love
only make manifest their own lovelessness,
and the loveless never find love,
only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

"Search for Love" in The Works of D. H. Lawrence, Wordsworth Editions, (1994), p. 552

Love, Search

“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Music, Feeling, Dance

“The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

People, World

“No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

People

“I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt”

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

Source: Under Her Skin

Waiting

“Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes it Free.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

Love, Soul

“I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.”

Tana French book The Secret Place

Source: The Secret Place

Love, Hate, Beauty, Way

“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Love, Smile, Sleep, Night

“Sometimes you need to make a mess.
-Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Support, Help

“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People, Feeling, Strong

“Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman… as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing… [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.”

Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer

Source: Everything Flows

Happiness, Imagination, Forgetting

“Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.”

David Brin book The Uplift War

Source: The Uplift War

“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

War

“When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Way, Sleep

“It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“For any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred of years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

“Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman

Women

“there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Second Helpings

World, Peace, Hope

“I know part of what turns me on so hard, makes me so violent with lust, is that he's dangerous. I fell for the bad guy. I'm crazy about the one who's trouble. The alpha that doesn't play well with others and doesn't take orders from anyone.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Guy, Parting

“People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.”

Ned Vizzini (1981–2013) American writer

People, Change

“Querida. You make me ache”

Eileen Wilks Tempting Danger

Tempting Danger

“I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?”

David Foster Wallace book The Broom of the System

Source: The Broom of the System

Feeling, Home, Thinking, Time

“It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”

Tom Brokaw (1940) Television journalist

Business

“Do what you love.
Do what makes your heart sing.
And NEVER do it for the money,
Go to work to spread joy.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Love, Money, Singing, Heart

“I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

Girl

“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.”

François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness

Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness

Happiness

“He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad.”

Valerie Martin (1948) American writer

Sadness, Forgiveness, Parting

“It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Way, Moms, Cry

“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

Martha Graham (1894–1991) American dancer and choreographer

Time

“Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Life

“She still felt his gaze on her like the brush of a finger across the back of her neck, making her shiver.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! It makes him very proud To be a little cloud.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Variant: How sweet to be a cloud
Floating in the blue.
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

Family

“The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.”

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician

People, World, Music

“It was truly amazing, Clary thought, how much teenage boys were able to eat without ever gaining weight or making themselves sick.
-pg.68”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Boy

“It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.”

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator

People, Dreams

“We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me
spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls
right out of my mouth.
You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Heart, Baby

“It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.”

Rita Mae Brown book Rubyfruit Jungle

Source: Rubyfruit Jungle

People, Way, Feeling

“I thought you couldn't make it here until morning," I said.
"I hurried.”

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

Life, Way, Suicide, Personality

“To make an omelet you must first break some eggs.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Unleash the Night

“Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.”

Karen Rose (1964) American writer

Source: Did You Miss Me?

Thinking

“Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested but he'll make a good face about it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Ruins of Gorlan

“What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

Happiness, People

“To read is to withdraw. To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less… selfish.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader

Feeling, Reading, Selfishness

“practice makes better”

Brian Lies (1963) American writer

“I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important it finds homes for us everywhere.”

Jean Rhys (1890–1979) novelist from Dominica

Home, Reading

“Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Dreams

“Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Baby

“Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.”

Sinclair Lewis book Main Street

Source: Main Street

War, Pleasure, Nature

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Life, Nature, Good Morning

“Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.”

Robin McKinley book Rose Daughter

Source: Rose Daughter

Love, Heart

“I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it.”

Chris Wooding book Poison

Source: Poison

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