Quotes by American Authors - Page 304

So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?""All the time," she said dryly, "on the BBC. And don't think I wouldn't sell my soul for a TARDIS.
Diana Gabaldon
The past is obdurate.
Stephen King
Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, but I’m ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm.“Sorry, clumsy,” she says.“You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits.”Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers folding together naturally, and for me the years fall away like a coat that’s too heavy and too tight. In that moment, I hope on thing above all others: that she was not too busy to find at least one good man …She speaks in a voice almost too low to be heard over the music. But I hear her – I always did. “Who are you, George?”“Someone you knew in another life, honey.
Stephen King
Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?
Stephen King
Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous...Our miracle is different because people say it's impossible.
John Green
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
Seth Godin
Weetzie could not even cry and make Kleenex roses. She remembered the day her father, Charlie, had driven away in the smashed yellow T-bird, leaving her mother Brandy-Lynn clutching her flowered robe with one hand and an empty glass in the other, and leaving Weetzie holding her arms crossed over her chest that was taking its time to develope into anything
Francesca Lia Block
Strive to be different.
Tianna Holley
Was it possible there was some fatal flaw in their matching, that they were ultimately, impossibly different--dissimilar enough to fall in love, but too fundamentally distinct to stay together?
Galt Niederhoffer
One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.
Criss Jami
He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.
Matthew Quick
Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello.
Gayle Forman
Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.''Why do you say that?''She seems different, that's all.''I don't know,' Bud said. 'You might be confusing different with dissatisfied.
Tawni O'Dell
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little bit of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw
hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.
Dan Brown
You're different. You are the virgin who stayed.
Lyra Parish
At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.
Jerry Spinelli
It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.
Cassandra Clare
But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.
Larry McMurtry
I guess not being ‘just like them’ is a crime.
Lisa De Jong
This time should have been no different. But it was.
Alexandra Bracken
Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don’t understand the sun because they were born with the darkness of shadows in their soul.
Shannon L. Alder
The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.
David Levithan
Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
Good or bad, if you’re not “normal,” you can’t have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.
Donna Lynn Hope
The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember.
Donna Lynn Hope
Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone.” A few people look up politely; some actually smile. Most, however, look wary at best, disgusted at worse. The nurse closest to me jabs her finger behind her ear and starts whispering to nobody.“What’s wrong with her?” I ask Harley as he leads me to the table he was sitting at.“Oh, don’t worry, we’re all mad here.”I giggle, mostly from nerves. “It’s a good thing I read Alice in Wonder-land . I definitely think I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole.”“Read what?” Harley asks.“Never mind.” All around me, eyes follow my every move.“Look,” I say loudly. “I know I look different. But I’m just a person, like you.” I hold my head up high, looking them all in the eyes, trying to hold their stares for as long as possible.“You tell ’em,” says Harley with another Cheshire grin.
Beth Revis
The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
Jeniffer Niven
We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.
Larry Kramer
It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
Jony Ive
Every day i throw my leg over this steed, I know this ride could be the last for me, it's in my blood this need to be free,some what different than your average breed.
Jess "Chief" Brynjulson
Being different was about something more than just our dicks.
Paul Monette
Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them.
Steven Magee
He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be.
Rainbow Rowell
But you are a different sort of girl. Not at all what I expected you to be. And this is a different sort of time. And so I am hopeful for all the things you may yet find.
Jennifer Donnelly
Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.
Hope Larson
I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?
Denis Markell
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
Craig Groeschel
You're different. We all are. We are each "one of a kind." This means each of us will live the Christian life differently.
J. Grant Howard
I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan," but I couldn't bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school.
Marilyn Manson
He blesses us so we can be different.
Craig Groeschel
We are born different to make a difference.
Lisa R. Reynolds
Cooking for the students and staff at Ever After High wasn't an easy feat, because there were so many palates to please. For example, fairies were known to have finicky appetites and preferred delicate, crustless sandwiches. Those from Wonderland insisted on hot tea with every meal. The vegetarians wanted organic salad bar options, while the Track and Shield team liked chowing down on heaping plates of barbecued ribs with smashed pumpkin.
Suzanne Selfors
Papa! You painted my nose!""I certainly did," her father said."But why?" Belle tried to see the purple dot on her face.Maurice grinned. "Because that mark makes you even more beautiful. Different and special from the inside out, just like your fantastic doll. And just like your mother, who you look and act more like every day."Belle eyed her father suspiciously. "A purple mark does all that?""Yes. Because it's yours and only yours," Maurice said.
Walt Disney Company
He felt as if there were something missing inside him that didn't fit in with their merriment, with their willing ignorance of the world outside the castle. It went beyond his title. He had enjoyed their company early in his adolescence, but it had become apparent that he'd always be a step away. The worst of it was that they didn't seem to notice he was different- or that he felt different. Were it not for Chaol, he would have felt immensely lonely.
Sarah J Maas
Remember, you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run with it.
Tay Jardine
Being different isn't a sin, but intolerance is.
Marty Rubin
Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.
Kathryn Davis
A new man is like a new toy. Fresh and interesting. Almost intriguing. It's like when you get a new car. Everything is different. The smell, the sound of the horn and seats, and it even ride good for a while. That's what a man is like to me.
Jeanette Michelle
Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.
Donald Miller
Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.
Layne Staley
Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.
John Green
I guess the message in the songs is that is shouldn't matter if someone moves differently, or looks differently, or talks differently. Is biotic differently. What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.
Daniel Waters
I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.
Jodi Picoult
Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.
John Green
Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about what she said in class--usually something no one else would've thought of, and if they had, something they wouldn't have dared to say. It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.
Kami Garcia
The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this 'Damned Thing' into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into their slots.
Robert Anton Wilson
People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.
Maggie Stiefvater
It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.
Patricia Briggs