Quotes - Kayla (kayls138) Showing 1-30 of 44

#1

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

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#2

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

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#3

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

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#4

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

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#5

“She was so cold, she probably farted ice cubes.”
― Cara Lynn Shultz, Spellbound

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#6

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green

tags: highlight, revision, secrets, storytelling, style, writer, writers

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#7

“You hear things."
"Do I?"
"People talk to you."
"I am very approachable.”
― Derek Landy

tags: china-sorrows, skulduggery-pleasant

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#8

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates

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#9

“If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

tags: naruto

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#10

“I know fuck-all about vampires. It’s not like I got an instruction pamphlet when I was bitten.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

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#11

“He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One," he says.
I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

tags: baz, carry-on, romance, simon

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#12

“I lean into him, because I'm cold and he's always warm. And because I like to remind him that I'm not afraid of him.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

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#13

“Did he just wish me good luck with getting laid?”
― Jana Aston, Wrong

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#14

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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#15

“How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big bathtub.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

4872 likes

#16

“Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: inspirational

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#17

“I promise, I will not let you die without being kissed.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

tags: thorne

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#18

“If you honestly believe that," said Thorne, stowing the gun again, "then you really don't recognize true value when you see it.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

tags: cress, marissa-meyer, thorne

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#19

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

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#20

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

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#21

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

13157 likes

#22

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday

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#23

“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
― judy blume

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#24

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology

4135 likes

#25

“For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.”
― Charles Perrault

tags: cupid, love

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#26

“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”
― Robert Crais

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#27

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

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#28