Bridget Robles > Bridget's Quotes

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#1

“Molly is not a Quaker, Jeremy. Quakers don't have tits that big.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure

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#2

“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name at the bottom of the list to add their child to the names of those who would return home, those beautiful children who would never be forgotten, as if their child’s name needed to be on the list to be remembered—to have been disappeared. ”
― Douglas Weissman

tags: adventure, depression, drama, family, fantasy, fiction, imagination, literary, pain

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#3

“Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had for her American colleague:
‘So eight years are coming to a close. This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve been able to achieve, to what we discussed, to what we were able to bring about in difficult hours.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: calculation, european-history, goals, history, literary, marriage, personal-goals, relationships, speeches, women-in-politics

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#4

“Yet, the work was not complete. Next, citing Bond’s veranda and our subsequent construction of it as an example, Sanjit elaborated on the thought which he had previously teased, but not fully explained: that when a reader reads, the reader constructs a setting and world and is able to view themselves through this world. However, he also added that when we read, we are not only able to see our constructed world, but to evaluate our constructed world. This is how, Sanjit would argue, we influence and better ourselves, even if unintentionally; for by pausing and analyzing our constructions we may be able to identify our assumptions about people, places, or things. And it is in this way that books may be an expressed form of art, not just for the writer, but also for the reader.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: betterment, indian-education, journal, learning, life, personal-identity, poetry, soul, truths, value

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#5

“The coolies pull them across Howrah bridge, which they share with cars, trucks, bullock carts, a party of young women in saris strolling in no hurry wearing bangles on their ankles, an elephant also in no hurry, and a cow that is lying down in the middle of the road chewing lazily a booklet entitled Dr W C Roy’s SPECIFIC FOR INSANITY. The camera pauses on a portion of the half-eaten text: “Dr Roy’s insanity medicine acted a charm. I am completely cured,” says Srinath Ghosh of Bundelkund. 5 rupees per phial.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: calcutta, dundee, family, future, heritage, history, insight, love, past, understanding

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#6

“Here I am, my genome, my signature, an encapsulation of myself, everything you need to know about me. If I match, I can be found.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, gripping, intense, legal, legal-thrille, suspense

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#7

“We are surrounded by forces that technology cannot yet measure.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: advice, allotments, fruits, harvest, herbs, informative, organic, plants, tips, vegetables

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#8

“At first, she bucked like a wild stag beneath me, and she tried to scream, but the pillow did a good job of muffling her voice. Before long, the bucking stopped, and my wife’s corpse, blue without oxygen, appeared below me like a hideous phantom.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: fantasy, horror, imaginative, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, slasher

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#9

“Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on the screen, as Johnny Weissmuller arced through a canopy of trees boldly screaming his signature jungle call.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

tags: action, conflict, death, discovery, documented, drama, loyalty, nazis, politics, unity

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#10

“Sorry Marion.”
― Hubert Selby

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#11

“Thank you for helping my sister,” he says.
I lean forward, mimicking his position. “I’m happy to.”
Calliope leans out her window. “STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

tags: calliope, cricket, flirt, funny, lola, lola-and-the-boy-next-door, stephanie-perkins, window

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#12

“No one loved Paris better than a true Parisian. No one was prouder of his city than a true Parisian. No one was half so arrogant, so haughty, so conceited, and quite so irresistible. Why”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key

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#13

“that the biggest part of the struggle as a child is about trying to believe you are not the monster you are being told you are. You need to know that you are a real person, that this thing happening to you is not something you are making happen—because when I was a child I thought I was doing it. I thought that if only I were a little better, a little smarter, a little meaner, a little faster, or maybe even a better Christian, none of those terrible things would be happening.”
― Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature

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#14

“Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always.”
― Dodie Smith, The 101 Dalmatians

tags: guilt

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#15

“Yes. You’re a good listener. That’s dangerous, because it’s so hard to resist. Being listened to—really listened to—is the second-best thing in the world.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

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#16

“The sky was overcast, with alternating sunshine and rain.”
― J L MARRAIN, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER

tags: adventure, atmosphere, book-quotes, fantasy, immersive-reads, moody-vibes, setting

74 likes

#17

“You’re as surprised as I am. But I guess it’s true, the only guarantee in this world is change”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: changeishard, family, familystories, growingup, healingstories, hopefulreads, kidlit, lifelessons, middlegrade

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#18

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller

283 likes

#19

“Stupid or no, Father, you’re dead – and I’m not.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: character-voice, dark-humor, defiance, family-wounds, fantasy, grit, survival, trauma-echo

55 likes

#20

“He smelled of rain, as if he had blown in on the wind, thought Mary.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

tags: moody-fiction

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#21

“I've learned, my dear—never give your heart away to a man who doesn't want or deserve it.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

tags: adult-fiction, book-quotes, dating-advice, goodreads, heart-guarding, romance-reads, self-respect, women-supporting-women

299 likes

#22

“Here we have a stopwatch turned on for life, which is why the most valuable thing we have is the time allotted to us by life, which is something that should not be burned in vain.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: deepreads, lifelessons, philosophicalfiction, spiritualjourney, thepythagorean, timeisprecious, valueyourtime

144 likes

#23

“Belief arises from honesty, consistency, and care.”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

tags: brand-belief, brand-strategy, care, consistency, honesty, leadership-reads, marketing-nonfiction, trust

90 likes

#24

“Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

tags: ambiguity, polarization, resentment

5 likes

#25

“You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. In fact these days the only thing that gets me outside is when I say: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck me. Fuck this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

tags: anger, apathy, sadness

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#26

“No penalty on earth will stop people from stealing, if it's their only way of getting food.”
― Thomas More

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#27

“A few minutes later, seemingly out of nowhere, he pointed to the dirt and said, “You know, white folks and black folks all buried over top of each other in here. I guess old white granddaddy and his brothers was buried in here too. Really no tellin who in this ground now.” Only thing he knew for sure, he said, was that there was something beautiful about the idea of slave-owning white Lackses being buried under their black kin. “They spending eternity in the same place,” he told me, laughing. “They must’ve worked out their problems by now!”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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#28

“Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

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#29

“if poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science-fiction writers are its court jesters.”
― William Gibson, Burning Chrome

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