Terrible Quotes - Page 10

• Esto tendrá consecuencias, pensó. No se puede alterar el tiempo y no verse afectado. Pero sean cuales sean las consecuencias, las soportaré, porque la alternativa es demasiado terrible. -Artemis Fowl, La Colonia Perdida

  Eoin Colfer

  Alternatives, Fowl, Bears

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• You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

  John Green

  Inspiring, Real, Long

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.272, Penguin

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• She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Anguish, Findings

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• People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

  James O'Barr

  Sadness, Land, People

  "El Cuervo". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all.It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.

  Donna Tartt

  Memories, Solitude, Departed

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• Piers le miró. Eres nuevo. ¿Cómo te llamas?' 'Neythen, mi señor.' Suena como una terrible enfermedad. No, más bien un problema intestinal. Lo siento, Lord Sandys, su hijo ha contraído neythen y no vivirá ni un mes. No, no, no hay nada que pueda hacer. Sandys hubiera preferido oír eso a la sífilis.

  Eloisa James

  Sorry, Son, Names

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• Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Broken, Wish

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• Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.

  Patrick Ness

  Fall, White, Clothes

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• Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

  Jane Austen

  Past, Mind, Disorder

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.777, Ageless Reads

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• I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape - but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community - to society?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Class, Community, Want

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.17, Random House

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• It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.

  Carson McCullers

  Writing, Feelings, Different

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• I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!

  John Green

  Amor, Vida, Corazón

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• the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.

  Charles Bukowski

  Taken, Wine, Air

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.101, Zondervan

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• Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?" Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet." "Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!

  Jill Shalvis

  Heart, Orange, Looks

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• A veces la gente dice cosas terribles cuando tiene miedo. No es su intención, pero no pueden evitarlo. Atacan porque si ven que sus palabras hieren a otra persona, sienten que no son completamente impotentes.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Hurt, Mean, People

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). "Cuentos de la Pudrición y la Ruina: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone", p.684, Simon and Schuster.

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• The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

  John Green

  Memories, Eye, Visible

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.113, Penguin

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• It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Depende

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.85, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

  John Green

  Rocks, Sea, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.170, Penguin UK

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• It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Rooms, Share, Conversation

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.278, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.

  John Green

  Mistake, Suffering, Wish

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.139, Penguin UK

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• If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Struggle, Water, Laughing

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• They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dying, Done, World

  "Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• Había estado tan empeñado en una huida que ahora era imposible, y la única forma de libertad que me quedaba era la muerte. Era una libertad terrible: de la miseria y el dolor, sí, pero también de la ligereza, la risa y la vida. Era la ausencia de todo.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Risa, Dolor, Imposible

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). "Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown", p.144, Faber & Faber

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• Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.

  Laini Taylor

  Pain, Epic, Testing

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• I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.

  Veronica Roth

  Want, Way, Saws

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