Quotes - Annie Neugebauer (annieneugebauer) (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 51

#1

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
― T.S. Eliot

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#2

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

tags: dracula

2418 likes

#3

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: adversity, growth, life, trials

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#4

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry

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#5

“Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains

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#6

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#7

“I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

tags: metaphor

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#8

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: box, darkness, gift, love

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#9

“Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me."
"Do you mean you want a secretary or something?"
"No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: chapter-6, humor, marriage, proposal, relationships

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#10

“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: classics, love, obsession

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#11

“If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable."
"Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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#12

“Despair has its own calms.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: dracula

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#13

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13091 likes

#14

“Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
― Stephen King

tags: children

756 likes

#15

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

tags: poetry

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#16

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: epistemology, poetry

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#18

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

tags: loneliness, mermaid, observation, singing

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#19

“Am I hideous, Jane?
Very, sir: you always were, you know.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#20

“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Blue Moon

tags: love

1360 likes

#21

“Never argue when you're winning.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins

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#22

“Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures

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#23

“Tink's a Disney whore!- Jenks”
― Kim Harrison, Pale Demon

tags: jenks

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#24

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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#25

“for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

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#26

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

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#27

“It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine.”
― Billy Collins

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#28

“A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.”
― Billy Collins

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#29

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

tags: poetry

9316 likes

#30

“It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: inspirational

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#31

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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