Quotes about mining
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“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Love, Fools, Way, Nature

“I know this woman.”
“Who the hell is she?”
He stared both his brothers down. “She’s mine.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: No Place to Run

Hell

“You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine." (Damon to Serena)”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Sweet Persuasion

Beauty, Lovers

“There are only two mantras… yum and yuk. Mine is yum.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Phase II, Ch. 21.
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“I'd had years of practise looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Variant: Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don’t see the need. It’s easier just to have folks explain stuff.
Source: The Demigod Diaries

People, Books, Reading

“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Light That Failed

Source: The Light That Failed

Love, Life, World

“Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Life, Sun

“But she laced her fingers through mine. I remember what she’d told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought-just maybe-we were off to a good start.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Variant: I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.
Source: The Last Olympian

“Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Red Glove

“Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Life

“And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Way, Suffering

“One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Books, Lying, Personality

“arrears, n.
My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that.
"It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Faith

“I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”

Sebastian Faulks book Birdsong

Source: Birdsong

Soul

“You…you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it."
"I do like it," he said. His breathing was as heavy as mine. "I love it."
And then he took me to the bed.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Love

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) Cuban poet/novelist/playwright

Art, Literature, Thinking

“But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Soul, Idea

“I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Source: Gates of Paradise

Love

“I keep a close watch on this heart of mine;
I keep my eyes wide open all the time.
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds.
Because you're mine, I walk the line.”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

I Walk the Line
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)

Time, Heart

“I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers.
Our brain does that sometimes.
Or at least mine does.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

Thinking, Memory

“A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Dead

“What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.”

Guillermo del Toro (1964) Mexican film director

Source: Hellboy: The Art of the Movie

Life, Way, Thinking

“Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Variant: Every heart has its own melody.
Source: Clockwork Princess

Heart

“I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out."
"So what happened?"
"I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Life

“You are mine-you know you're mine!" he cried wildly… the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened… the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“Mine’s Bond – James Bond.”

Ian Fleming book Casino Royale

Source: Casino Royale

“Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident. His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips.”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

Source: Invitation Only

Confidence

“What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?"
"I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Thinking

“Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"
Simon raised his eyebrow in response.
"Well, aside from mine of course," Jace said. "And I'm pretty sure my blood is fan-tastic.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"
Simon raised his eyebrows in response.
"Well, aside from mine, of course," Jace said. "And I'm sure my blood is fan-
Source: City of Glass

“I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.”

Primo Levi (1918–1987) Italian chemist, memoirist, short story writer, novelist, essayist

Beauty, Housing

“Chaos is a friend of mine.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Newsweek (9 December 1985)

“Jesus died
For somebody's sins
But not mine.”

Patti Smith (1946) American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist

Gloria: In Excelsis Deo, from Horses (1975)
Lyrics

“She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Feeling

“I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Source: The Woman in White

People, World, Thinking, Tear

“It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia
"Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza
"No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

People, Problem, Help

“Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.”

Sheri Reynolds (1967) American writer

Source: A Gracious Plenty

Truth, Hurt

“And you are mine, and you will be mine. They
will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone”

Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone

Source: Dead and Gone

Dead

“That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Reading

“If you crave something, I’ll be
the one to give it to you. All of your needs, Eva,
are mine to fulfill. Whatever it costs me.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

“But you were Mine. My child. And I would not give you up.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Fury's Kiss

“As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

School, Understanding, Sense, Reading

“This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before…The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of spirit.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Source: Anthem (1937)

“Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving me astounded, amazed, and most of all, alive.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Kiss

“Go to sleep, baby, Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiment so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Sister, Sleep, Singing, Baby

“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Books, Thinking, Time, Reading

“Champagne, always champagne. Make mine Veuve-Clicquot.”

Patricia Wells

“And you can tell Darroc that Ms. Lane is mine. If he wants her, he can bloody well come and get her”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

“Tonight," he whispered, his voice hoarse and hot in her ear, "I will make you mine."

-Simon to Daphne”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Duke and I

“Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Pain, Beauty, Dreams, Hope

“Dark and Dangerous. And all mine.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

“Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

“I’ll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Death, Revenge

“Promise me no promises,
So will I not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Past, Falseness

“You're mine, Lyric.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Sweet Possession

“I laughed as we turned in a tight circle… "Tonight you're all mine."

Jake smiled but looked me dead in the eye. "No. From now on."

My heart skipped. "What?"

"Yours," he said simply, "from now on.”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

Source: She's So Dead to Us

Smile, Heart, Dead

“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Happiness, Feeling

“I’m not dangerous,” I breathed.

He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.”

And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Kiss

“A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Revealed

Smile, Thinking

“I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Feeling

“Shake paws, count your claws,
You steal mine, I'll borrow yours.
Watch my whiskers, check both ears.
Robber foxes have no fears.”

Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels

Fear

“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

“There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.”

Theodore Sturgeon book E Pluribus Unicorn

Source: E Pluribus Unicorn

Soul, Loneliness

“I will fight any battle for you, crush any adversity. Because you are mine, beautiful girl. I love you so madly that the past before you feels sane…”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Love, Beauty, Feeling, Girl

“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

“For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

Time, Heart

“I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.”
“Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: White Witch, Black Curse

Death, People

“I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.”

Kelley Armstrong book Stolen

Source: Stolen

Parent

“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

“She is mine, and I am hers.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

E.M. Forster book Maurice

Source: Maurice

Death, Happiness, Way

“The heart has its own laws… and the truth is… the truth is that you are the law of mine.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana

Source: Tigana

Truth, Law, Heart

“I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

Decision

“My wife."
"By what name is she called, Kincaid?"
"Mine.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: The Bride

“[…]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!”
“Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.”

Georgette Heyer book Frederica

Source: Frederica

Memory

“Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you… well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Fate, Lie, Thinking, Anger

“I keep what's mine, and I do not share.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Seven Years to Sin

“Can I take advantage of you in the limo?” His eyes laughed at me. “By all means, angel mine.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Angels

“A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.

Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Nature

“Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?”

Yukio Mishima book Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask (1949), p. 208.
Context: I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

Love, World, Jealousy, Feeling

“I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.”

Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer

Source: For Darkness Shows the Stars

“I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Help

“I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

“We are bound together, Emma, bound together—I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you!”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.”

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

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

Hell, Thinking

“What was the self-sacrifice?"
I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes."
Why was that self-sacrifice?"
Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly.
I think we have different value systems."
Well mine's better.”

Douglas Adams book Mostly Harmless

Source: Mostly Harmless

Love, Shoe, Thinking

“To belong to someone—I didn’t know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that’s all I’ve ever wanted. To really be somebody’s, and to have them be mine.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Thinking

“Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

Love, Cats

“I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.”

Lisa Kleypas book Dreaming of You

Source: Dreaming of You

Dreams

“He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

“All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.”

Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

Life, Loss

“Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.”

Spike Milligan (1918–2002) British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor

Spike Milligan with Jeremy Taylor Live at Cambridge University. Recorded at Cambridge University on December 2, 1973, this was previously released as a double LP, and later re-issued as a 2 CD set. Milligan used variations on the Shakespear line throughout his later life.

Reading

“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Life, Color

“If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before