Quotes about stay
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“Percy: We're staying together. You're not getting away from me. Never again.
Annabeth: As long as we're together.”

Variant: We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.
Source: The Mark of Athena

“It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever”

Rosamunde Pilcher book The Shell Seekers

Source: The Shell Seekers

Parting, Personality

“What happens in the demon realms stays in the demon realms,” said Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“For a moment she just stared, wondering if there were another girl staying here, or if Sebastian had taken to cross-dressing.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Girl

“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Variant: Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
Source: Factotum

Life, World, Sleep, Clothes

“Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.”

Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

Source: Possible Side Effects

“How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

Change

“I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.”

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

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

People, Family, Thinking

“I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don’t know how to be without you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Love, Sister

“Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Love, Change

“Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.”

Brian Keene (1967) American writer

Idea

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

New Year, Decision

“I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Soul

“Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

God

“‎I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Source: Selected Letters

Home, Night

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Way, Time, Fight

“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Life, World, Change

“There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.”

Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) Irish writer and dramatist

Men, Beauty, Dreams, Home

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Epigraph
Source: A Moveable Feast (1964)

Life

“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

People, Learning, Madness

“Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.”

Rhonda Byrne book The Secret

Source: The Secret

“I shot up, now as angry and frusterated as him. I had a feeling if i stayed, we'd both snap. In and undertone, I murmured,"this isnt over. i won't give up on you."
" I've given up on you,"he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Variant: Rose. Please stop. Please stay away."
[... ]
In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you."
"I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.
Source: Spirit Bound

Love, Feeling

“Goddamn sometimes I only want this feeling to stay and last.”

Dave Eggers book How We Are Hungry

Source: How We Are Hungry

Feeling

“Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.”

Alice Hoffman The Story Sisters

Source: The Story Sisters

Forgetting

“What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn’t give. He stays rigid. Doesn’t even try to listen, just lashes out.”

Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman

Source: Go Set a Watchman

“Did he just say--?"
"Yes," Claire said, smiling. "Yes, he did."
"Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Lord of Misrule

Smile

“Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

Love

“It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Source: How to Be Good

Love, Christmas

“Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.
Cry.
Cry.
Cry.”

James Frey (1969) American screenwriter and media presenter

Fight, Cry

“He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Smile, Past

“You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.”

Bill Hybels (1951) American writer

Source: Courageous Leadership

Passion, Reading

“Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.”

Jay Leno (1950) American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and television host

Madness

“It comes, I suppose,” I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, “of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don’t always stay where you put them.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

Time, Forgetting

“What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed her lips.
"You can't stay here much longer," she said.
My mouth dropped open.
"You… you speak English?"
She snorted. "Of course.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Sister, Housing

“Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

People

“You shook his hand?" Adrian asked incredulously
…
“With all that red-hot passion, it’s a wonder you guys can stay away from each other”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Guy, Passion

“He's an honest politician--he stays bought.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back, but I don't quite catch it.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Sleep

“Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian

Sadness, Home

“With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.”

Gao Xingjian (1940) Chinese novelist and playwright

Life, Truth, Lie

“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”

Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven

Source: Pigs in Heaven

For Mother

“… whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Mine Till Midnight

World

“Oh the things you can find
If you don't stay behind!”

Dr. Seuss book On Beyond Zebra!

On Beyond Zebra! (1955)

“Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Affliction

Source: Affliction

Evil, Time

“Follow me,' Myrnin said. 'And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

People, Way, Time

“It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?”

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

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

Past, Future

“Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?”

Amy Tan (1952) American novelist

Memory, Heart

“Maybe we’ll admit this thing we have is perfect, not worth messing around with. And stay together forever. If you’re interested, that is.”
She glanced away. “I could think about that.”
He buried his face in her neck. “Think fast”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Wild Man Creek

Thinking, Perfection

“Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.”

Frank E. Peretti book Monster

Source: Monster

Life

“I caught Bast’s arm when she was a few steps from the bank.
“Stay away from the water.”
She frowned. “Carter, I’m a cat. I’m not going for a swim. But if you want to summon a river goddess, you really need to do it at the riverbank.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Cats, Water

“Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.”

Sophie Kinsella book Wedding Night

Source: Wedding Night

Life, Youth

“But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.”

A.A. Milne book Now We Are Six

The End.
Source: Now We Are Six (1927)
Context: When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five,
I was just alive.
But now I am Six,
I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

Thinking