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“Then, Holden, the little Fang gang kid, came out of nowhere with an apparent death wish. He raced directly toward the maniac with the gun shrieking something that sounded like”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Death

“I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Love, Fate, Faith, Thinking

“Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.”

Lauren Willig (1977) American author

Source: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Books

“How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?”

Francine Rivers book An Echo in the Darkness

Source: An Echo in the Darkness

Anger

“You see something you like?”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Variant: Rose Hathaway: "You see something you like?"
Dimitri Belikov: "Get dressed.
Source: Vampire Academy

“Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

People, Loss

“Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I've never had a whole leg to myself before.” The disbelief of the chronically hungry.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.”

Thomas Dubay (1921–2010) American Catholic priest, author, and retreat director

Sister, Learning

“I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.”

Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

People, Reality

“Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Imagination, Water, Change, Time

“Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.”

Tim O'Reilly (1954) Irish computer programmer

World

“Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.”

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

Thinking

“When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

“Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

Death

“I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed.”

Cecily von Ziegesar (1970) American writer

Source: Because I'm Worth It

Hope, Feeling

“I dread no more the first white in my hair,
Or even age itself, the easy shoe,
The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:
Time, doing this to me, may alter too
My anguish, into something I can bear”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Age, Shoe, Time

“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”

James Beard (1903–1985) American chef

Love, Secret, Cooking

“If a little voice in your head is telling you something is up, maybe you should listen.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Crushed

“Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

Nature

“Make something beautiful of your life.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

Life, Beauty, Beauty

“Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Variant: I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
Source: The Sun Also Rises

Learning

“There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go…”

Danielle Steel Wanderlust

Source: Wanderlust

Soul

“He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

Sense, Time

“But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Personality

“Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

Change

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.”

Muriel Spark book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), P. 36

Education, Soul

“In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aim- lessly. You don’t get anywhere by not ‘wasting’ time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.”

Carlo Rovelli book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Incipit
Seven Brief Lectures on Physics (2014)
Source: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Youth, Parent, Time, Forgetting

“There are only four points of warmth and brightness, in the whole world, that burn fiercely enough for me to feel something like the person I was. Your mother, your father, Lucie, and you. You love, and tremble, and burn.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Nothing but Shadows

Love, World, Feeling, Personality

“Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment.
“I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—”
“Die?” Carter suggested.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“To be creative you actually have to do something.”

Ken Robinson (1950) UK writer

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right--just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive--just something fun and good and beautiful.”

Regina Doman (1970) American writer

Source: The Shadow of the Bear

Stupidity, Beauty

“When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

God

“I am the place in which something has occurred.”

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) French anthropologist and ethnologist

“It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: Fire with Fire

“Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.”

Koushun Takami book Battle Royale

Source: Battle Royale

Hope

“We should clap or something." Curran said. "She's trying so hard.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Time, Patience

“If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Thinking

“Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

Hope

“I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Feeling, Search

“But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”

Malcolm Gladwell book Blink

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Tear

“Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same.”

Jane Green (1968) British writer

Source: Second Chance

Life, People, History

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

People, Dreams

“The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

Life

“Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl… interrupted.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Life, Dreams, Girl, Training

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Feeling

“I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Sadness, Sad

“This is the trouble with all happiness -all of it is built on top of something men want.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Men, Happiness

“I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Hope

“… reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays….”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

People, Feeling, Reality, Holiday

“love doesn't follow the rules… nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Love

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: 20th Century Ghosts

Marriage

“… In its original Latin form, sacrifice means to make sacred or to make holy. I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting, regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Parent

“Lord, please do this… or do something better!”

Priscilla Shirer (1974) American writer

Source: God is Able

“VAMPIRE ACADEMY:

Rose- See something you like?
Dimitri- Get dressed.

LAST SACRIFICE:

Rose- See something you like?
Dimitri- Lots”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Love, Suffering, Personality

“Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.”

Loretta Chase (1949) American writer

Source: Silk Is for Seduction

“The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

Life, Feeling, Thinking, Time

“For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the Silent Brothers as well. I had to. They had something I needed."
"What? A sense of decency?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Sense, Time

“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Reading

“Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.”

Lev Grossman The Magician King

Source: The Magician King

“Something snapped inside Maryse. “He is not a Herondale. He is a Lightwood. Jace Lightwood. He’s my son.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo."
"And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Way, Photo, Time

“Speaking of Sonya… I was thinking of something earlier. Something Wolfe said."

"Why, Adrian. Were you paying attention after all?"

"Don't start, Sage," he warned.(p 211)”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Thinking, Wolf

“There's something strange about this big pink bunny…”

Lauren Myracle (1969) American children's writer

Source: l8r, g8r

“You'd give up drinking to go see your dad?"
"Well, not permanently," he said. "That'd be ridiculous. But maybe I could switch to something slightly cheaper for a while. Like… slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Love, Drink

“Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Beauty, Parting

“I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”

John Irving book The World According to Garp

Source: The World According to Garp]] (1978)

Imagination

“And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Reading

“It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”

Lydia Millet (1968) American writer

Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

Light, Learning, Sea

“It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Hurt

“I want your opinion.ʺ
ʺThat,ʺ Adrian said, ʺis not something I hear a lot.ʺ”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

Fear, Way, Time

“One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Night

“No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.”

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist

Despair

“For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.”

Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

World, Food

“Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

“We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.”

George MacDonald book Lilith

Source: Lilith (1895), Chapter 9

People

“Can I hold your hand?" he asked.
I put mine in his.
"The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to."
"I'm here.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Universe

“The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 24

Knowledge, Victory, Despair

“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Faith

“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Life

“The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

Source: Mastery

“It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Nature, Passion

“Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love

“For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.”

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer

Soul, Light

“I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Source: Breathing Underwater

Thinking, Parting

“It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

“Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn’t work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don’t ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God, Disappointment, Feeling, Dead

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