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“… the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

World, Tree

“As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

Love

“Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

“Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other."
"So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Family

“Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside… It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Variant: Being self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside. It starts with the rest of the world and leads back to you.
Source: Keeping the Moon

World, Confidence, Self-confidence

“It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Pretty Little Liars #4: Unbelievable

“My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around”

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

“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Parting

“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect… As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Love, Perfection

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”

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

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Effort

“You look lousy,"Simon said.
Jace blinked."Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Thinking, Time

“You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

People, Books

“You can't go back, Ever. You can't change the past. It just is." I squint, having no idea what she's talking about. But just as I start to ask, she shakes her head and says, "This is our destiny. Not yours.”

Alyson Nöel book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Idea, Change, Past

“There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on.
But if the above whipped your mind into a frenzy, here's something even more interesting: Fang started a blog. Not that he's self-absorbed or trendy or anything. Nope, not him.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.”

Karen White (1964) American writer

Source: The Memory of Water

Learning, Personality

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”

Michael Landon Jr. (1964) American television director

“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Variant: I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.
Source: Boy Meets Boy

Hurt

“I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.”

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

Drawing

“Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

War, Sadness

“But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.”

Kay Hooper (1957) American writer

Source: If There Be Dragons

“What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?”

Blue Balliett book The Calder Game

Source: The Calder Game

“You are becoming a snake tomorrow, and as you start to devour people, with that mouth that has eaten others, you cry your love to me, and the same as today, I do wonder, will I be able to say my love to you?" - Gin Ichimaru awww”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Love, People, Cry

“Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.”

Edward O. Wilson (1929) American biologist

World, Effort, Time

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

“People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“Come on," he said.
"Let's get back to Alec before he decides Isabelle and Simon are having sex off in the caves and starts freaking out.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Sex

“One more thing."
"What."
"I think we're dating now." As V barked out a laugh, the cop shrugged. "Come on…. I got you naked. You wore a damn corset. And don't get me started about the sponge bath afterward."
"Fucker."
"To the end.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

“But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.”

Ernest Hemingway book Islands in the Stream

Source: Islands in the Stream

Intelligence, Animals

“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”

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

“I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.“ She nods her head slowly. „What do you think you‘d look like?” “Smaller, for a start.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder book By the Shores of Silver Lake

Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake

Waiting

“Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.”

Bill Moyers (1934) American journalist

Freedom, Time

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Happiness

“The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Music

“The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.”

Stewart O'Nan (1961) American writer

“There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep, and he started playing nothing by Phil Collins, and that's how they knew it was time to call the ambulance.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Sleep, Time

“It's not your fault. You had no way of knowing I'd traded my soul. It's not exactly how I start out conversations. Hi, I'm Kyrian. I have no soul. What about you? (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Way, Soul

“And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time”

T.S. Eliot book Four Quartets

Variant: We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
Source: Four Quartets

Time

“But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.”

Markus Zusak book Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Source: Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Fight

“1. Your heart starts hurting when you think about him.”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 13

Thinking, Heart, Hurt

“But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Lie, Feeling, Kiss

“You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

“You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place…”

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

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Fear, Waiting

“Let's just start and see what happens.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“I see time away hasn’t made you any more charming. (Fang)
Oh, I can be charming. I just choose not to. People start to think you like them, then when you stab them in the back, they take it so personally. Really pisses me off. (Thorn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

People, Thinking, Time, Personality

“But where is what I started for so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Let Me be a Woman

“He’s body slammed enough people to start a new country. And there could be a neighbouring city for the people he’s punched in the throat”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

People, Country

“When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Books

“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Personality

“This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

Source: John Mayer - Battle Studies

Love, Strong, Chance, Time

“Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Thinking, Time, Past

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.”

Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach

Source: James and the Giant Peach

World

“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

Source: Madness in the Family: Stories

Cry

“Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Problem

“Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that?”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch? 'Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could start right now.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

Love, Smile

“You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart.”

Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Boy, Thinking, Heart, Dance

“Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.”

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

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Tithe

“Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Hate, Fate, Guy

“All serious daring starts from within.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

Source: On Writing (2002)

Wise, Deep, Inspirational, Courageous

“I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Love, Hope, Thinking

“If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

“Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Source: Any Man of Mine

Forgiveness, Personality

“Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God, Truth, Feeling

“Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

IguanaCon Guest of Honor speech, Phoenix, Arizona, (1978)

“Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

Way

“It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Life, Books

“The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.”

Maureen Johnson The Key to the Golden Firebird

Source: The Key to the Golden Firebird

“Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster towards a finishing line that is merely the start of the next race.”

Matt Ridley book The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 5
Source: The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature