Top 87 David Arnold Quotes
#1. They lived and laughed and they saw that it was good.
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#2. A real apology cost something, because you had to stand there like an idiot and say it out loud for the world to hear - I'M SORRY. And the world, as always, would respond with a resounding, 'Yes. Yes, you are.
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#3. The longer you hold onto an apology, the harder it is to give.
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#4. I lowered my voice, because as I'd learned some time ago, a whisper was louder than a scream
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#5. Exactly why I don't have a boyfriend," I whisper, turning to the window. Because you've referenced The Lord of the Rings twice before lunch, or because you're talking to yourself? I have to admit, I've got me there.
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#6. People talk about coincidence like it's some big thing. But it's not. We bump into one another all the time. Mostly I think people are just too blind to notice.
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#7. We are all part of the same story, each of us different chapters. We may not have the power to choose setting or plot, but we can choose what kind of character we want to be.
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#8. Life can be a real son of a bitch sometimes, bringing things back around long after you've said good-bye.
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#9. ... we stood there on the quiet sidewalk, stuck between mutiny and mediocrity
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#10. They understood that lasting pain could only be dealt at the root.
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#11. I ask, "You ever hear that a person has to go through fire to become who they're meant to be?"
Mendes sips her coffee, nods. "Sure."
"I've always wanted to be strong, Miss Mendes, I just wish there wasn't so much fire.
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#12. Music was more than subjective; it was erratic. It was the ship on the horizon that one sailor saw, the other sailor didn't.
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#13. ...the people arrogant enough to use the words 'I understand' are the ones who can't possibly understand.
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#14. My Reasons may be hard, but my Objectives are quite simple.
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#15. Later in life, it would occur to me that this was the ultimate dichotomy: for a person to want what's best but draw from their worst.
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#16. You spend you life roaming the hillsides, scouring the four corners of the earth, searching desperately for just one persons to fucking get you. And I'm thinking, if you can find that, you've found home.
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#17. There are times when I absolutely, 110 percent, without a doubt, have to laugh at a thing. 'Cause if I don't, that same thing will make me go stark-raving bananas. I
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#18. I'm already jealous of myself five minutes ago. Because you can't un-know a honky-tonk
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#19. Sinking into fiction: the if-only of if-onlys.
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#20. And behind the good doctor, his Wall of Hubris: I counted seven framed degrees, hung with care and pride and more than a little jackassedness. Oh-ho, you don't believe I'm important, eh? Well then, how do you explain these?!?!?!
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#21. I used to think love was bound by numbers: first kisses, second dances, infinite heartbreaks. I used to think numbers outlasted the love itself, surviving in the dark corners of the demolished heart. I used to think love was heavy and hard.
I don't think those things anymore.
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#22. But that's the personality of change, isn't it? When it's slow, it's called growth; when it's fast, it's change.
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#23. Sometimes you walk into a room one person, and when you come out the other side, you're someone else altogether.
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#24. Sometimes a thing doesn't seem real until we say it out loud.
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#25. I remember like it was yesterday. I remember because it was the last time we held hands
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#26. Mom and Dad had gathered their love like kindling, burned it together. And now that love is being scattered all over the place.
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#27. A minute, an hour, a lifetime-- there is no time, there are no things. I have no more Things. I have only scraping metal, creaming voices, and death
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#28. ... it occurs to me how often laughter accompanies tears
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#29. And suddenly, my symphony of travel crescendos, achieving its rumbling, mighty End
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#30. Peer pressure is one thing, but when your dad's the pusher, it's something else entirely.
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#31. They lived and they laughed..
and they saw it was good.
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#32. ... anything to avoid the uncomfortable nearness of strangers
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#34. Help is help to anyone, Mary. Even if they don't know they're asking for it." I said that made a whole lot of sense, because it did. And it still does. Here's the thing, Iz: my mom needs help right now. And I know it, even if she doesn't.
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#35. I am not me, I said to the ocean, to the old feet, to the face in the mirror. And it was true. In the dream, the reflection staring back at me was not my own. It was my mother's.
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#36. Pain is what matters. Not fast cars or big words or fabulous stories in exotic settings. And certainly not some French-toasted-sunrise-sensei-servant-motherfucker. I
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#37. I wish wishing were enough, but it's not. Sometimes you need a thing.
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#38. I cry because I've never smiled like that, not once in my life. I cry because I love. For some reason, I always have.
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#39. And I'm sick of things the way they are, my many oddities, my limited depth perception, as if it's not bad enough I only see half the world, but it always seems to be the wrong half.
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#40. I sat there frozen, wondering if this icy truth could ever melt, if the madness of the world could ever be cured
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#41. Life, it seems, delivers the best punch lines only after we've forgotten we were part of a joke.
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#44. Where did they go?" asked Coco. "Here? Did Coconut bring Fro-Yo back here?"
"No," I said. "They walked into that sunset, because it was something no one had ever done or heard about, or seen at all anywhere ever. And they lived drippily ever after. The end.
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#45. I hope you were right," he whispered. "I hope there's beauty in my asymmetry."
"You weren't a nuisance," he continued, his words growing louder in the cold, snowy silence. "You were the Northern Dancer, sire of the century, the superest of all racehorses.
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#46. Sometimes being with gets overlooked I think.
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#47. I swear, the longer I live, the less things make sense.
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#48. I smile at Beck, a wide-eyed, can-you-believe-the-awesomeness-that-is-Walt sort of smile. He's wearing the same one. "I think we'll all remember the rendezvouski.
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#49. The thing about uniquely pretty girls is that their prettiness cares nothing for time or place. It cannot be rescheduled or relocated. They are pretty wherever they go, whenever they get there. It can be quite distracting.
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#50. I was lovely once, but he never loved me once.
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#51. It was cold out, the kind you could see, where your breath blossomed like a floating lotus in front of your face. It was the kind of cold where you couldn't tell if it was cloudy, or if the whole sky was just the color of clouds.
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#52. As simple as it sounds, I think understanding who you are - and who you are not - is not the most important thing of all Important Things.
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#53. I act like I don't care, but I do. I always have. And my God, what wouldn't I give to put the pieces together?
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#54. Yes, Mom but how does the music get from that needle" - I pointed my chubby little finger to the record player -"to my heart." My earliest memories of music had nothing to do with listening, and everything in the world to do with feeling. - Mim, Mosquitoland
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#55. Beck's smile is intense and sincere, a smile with, not a smile at. Mom used to say you could tell a lot by the way a person treats the innocent, and Walt is nothing if not innocence personified.
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#56. My heart was so full, I thought it might explode into the ether, creating some bizarre new solar system whose inhabitants ate only love, drank only hope, and breathed only joy. What a substantial galaxy that would be.
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#57. And in the night sky, the soaring sopranos fly out over the city, guarding it with song, catching the souls of those rare, lovely heart-thinkers.
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#58. Sometimes you tell the truth, and things are better for it. Other times truth hangs in the air like a fog, clouding the pretty lies.
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#59. I think Mad saw in books what I saw in art: the weightless beauty of the universe.
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#60. ..you should write. It's better than succumbing to the madness of the world... And cheaper than pills
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#62. So I float in silence, watching the final touches of this perfect moonrise, and in a moment of heavenly revelation, it occurs to me that detours are not without purpose. They provide safe passage to a destination, avoiding pitfalls in the process.
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#63. Sometimes, things are more embarrassing when you're alone. I guess when no one's around to hear your stupidity, you're forced to bear the brunt of it.
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#64. It's a fortress of passion, a crash--a fatal collision of neurons and electrons and fibers, my circus of oddities coming together as one, imploding in a fiery blaze. It's . . . I-don't-know-what . . . my collection of shiny.
It's love.
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#65. I have limited experience, but I know this: moments of connection with another human being are patently rare. But rarer still are those who can recognize such a connection when they see one.
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#66. Look at you," I whisper, smiling, crying. "Lovely.
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#67. Do so with gusto, because my God, there's nothing sorrier than a gusto-less existence.
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#68. Everything sounds better on vinyl. It's not a trend. It's a fact. I
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#69. I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.
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#70. It's okay." I say again. Because if I keep saying it, maybe it will be true. It's okay it's okay it's okay it's okay.
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#71. It's just the two of us, cursed to face one another amid the ravenous elements of this bus station for all of forever.
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#72. She never said so out loud, but some things speak loud enough on their own.
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#73. I am Mary Iris Malone, and I am empty, cleaned the fuck out. All that's left is a fierce hunger for flight.
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#74. Like a Siren, it tempts me with whispered promises of the ever-elusive Normal Life.
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#76. Because this is my life, the only one I get. And if it's a choice between a life Albilitoled, or a life full of Life... well, that's not really a choice at all.
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#78. Home is hard... People say home is where the heart is, but I think maybe home IS the heart
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#79. You ever have the feeling you lost something important, only to discover it was never there to begin with?
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#81. You and Victor are my North, South, East, and West. You are my Due Everywhere.
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#82. Don't look at the colors that are there, V. Look at the colors that aren't.
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#83. I often thought the most unfair thing about having Moebius wasn't Moebius at all, but other people's inability to define me by anything else.
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#84. I see a million miles of life, a million lives in one, a million headaches, heartaches, brainaches, a million ingredients in her eyes
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#85. a thing's not a thing until you say it out loud
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#86. Arlene was one of a kind, a true friend when I needed one, a grande dame from the old school. She was the sweetest of old ladies, and I will miss her dearly. All of those things are true, but the words I choose are far more profound.
"She smelled like cookies," I whisper through tears.
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