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saying Quotes

16 of the best book quotes about saying
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“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”
Madeleine Miller
author
The Song of Achilles
book
relationships
greek mythology
illusions
speaking
saying
days after days
concepts
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“I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I would write him a letter right now and threaten to strangle him dead with my bare hands just for being so glum. No wonder he put a gun to his head, like it says in the introductory essay.”
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“I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we’re a perfect match, as long as we don’t hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch.”
Augustus McCrae
Lorena Wood
characters
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“Don’t you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly there was music everywhere & it went on for a very long time & when I finally found words all I could say was thank you. ”
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“I meant what I said, and I said what I meant…An elephant’s faithful, one hundred per cent!”
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“Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what’s been said to me.”
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“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”
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“Pete Briggs pats his big pink pigs all day, (Don’t ask me why, I cannot say) Then Pete puts his patted pigs aways in his Pete Briggs’ Pink Pigs Big Pigs Pigpen.”
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“He grinned. “How can I say I love you for your mind, after everything I’ve just said? But I do.” It was the first time he’d used the word love, and it sobered me, a bit. ”
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“But like I was saying, the whole Big Bad Wolf thing is all wrong. The real story is bout a sneeze and a cup of sugar. ”
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Treehorn sighed, ‘I don’t think I’ll tell anyone,’ he thought to himself, ‘If I don’t say anything, they won’t notice.’ “
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″‘What I mean and what I say is two different things,’ the BFG announced rather grandly.”
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″‘I resemble only half the things I say I don’t,’ the Golux said. ‘The other half resemble me.‘”
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“It’s not exactly what you’d call evidence, but the old saying usually holds good, ‘Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.‘”
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“Be careful what you say. It comes true.”

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