Quotes About Cal

#1. Cal curled his fingers around mine and raised my left hand to the brownish flower. There was a callus on his thumb that should have been irritating against my skin.

Rachel Hawkins

#2. I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis.

Eric Davis

#3. Chalk again?" Cal seemed almost disappointed. "Too bad there's no chalk monster."
Penn snorted with amusement. Chalk monster. That was like saying it was a vampire. Everyone knew vampires didn't exist. Zombies who drank blood to stay alive. Ridiculous.

R. Cooper

#4. There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

Earl Weaver

#5. Destroy them later? Cal offered, which was probably as close to friendly as he ever got.

Rick Riordan

#6. Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#7. And that was when Ryker collapsed. One second he was standing, the next second his ass was to the floor, his knees bent to the ceiling, his forearms to his knees and his head was bowed between his legs. Merry, Cal and Layne all looked down at a big man brought low by a miracle.

Kristen Ashley

#8. At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#9. I've never shot like that in my life. That's unholy. Uncle Cal claimed credit for teaching her to shoot, but while Margo had felt his guidance, she had felt just as strongly the guidance of the gun itself. It held her steady, and then sadness perfected her aim.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#10. Can you hear me, Father? Can you understand me?" The eyes did not change or move. "I did it,"
Cal cried. "I'm responsible for Aron's death and for your sickness. I took him to Kate's. I showed him
his mother. That's why he went away. I don't want to do bad things - but I do them.

John Steinbeck

#11. Just in case we get into trouble, he can do that battle armor thing again," he explained. Splurt began to shift around, but Cal stopped him. "Not yet. Just if I give the signal. So we're clear, the signal will be me getting badly beaten or shot at. That's when you do your thing, OK?" Splurt

Barry J. Hutchison

#12. As I moved past him and into the house, I resolved to talk to Cal like a mature grown-up person. Eventually. For now, I gave him a little wave and ran away to my room.

Rachel Hawkins

#13. This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

Mitch Albom

#14. Regardless of the shape he took, Cal had a nearly endless capacity for worrywarting.

Caitlin Kittredge

#15. They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

James Stockdale

#16. Do you still want Ren?" I listened to my own heartbeat for a minute before answering. "Yes." "That's one hot mess, Cal." Ansel smiled at me.

Andrea Cremer

#17. The steel reddens, warming under Cal's fiery touch, and bits of the gilded hilt melt between his fingers. Gold and silver and iron, dripping from his hands like tears.

Victoria Aveyard

#18. Are you in any pain? (Ariana Skyee)
Only my heart. (Cal Remus)

Siobhan Davis

#19. The colonel looks eager, but Cal could not seem more reluctant. He keeps still, knowing that any twitch might betray his true feelings. The lack of movement is just as damning. "I'll see what I can come up with," he finally forces out.

Victoria Aveyard

#20. The bastard. How dare he? I was drowning in a fucking river that he was still attempting to save me from, and he was telling me he was going to push me back in and hold me under. My father's death had nearly destroyed me. Cal's death would finish me.

T.J. Klune

#21. Cal and I stare after her, then at the walls, then at the floor, then at our feet, afraid to look at each other.

Victoria Aveyard

#22. He ran his thumb over my lower lip, sending a flurry of sparks through me. "Good-bye, Sophie." -Cal

Rachel Hawkins

#23. I left out the part about Cal I being betrothed. Jenna was already practically wearing a Team Cal T-shirt. I didn't want to give her any more ammunition.

Rachel Hawkins

#24. Still a boy, no more than eighteen, with too much to live for, and too little reason to die. Cal

Victoria Aveyard

#25. And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#26. But Maven is not Cal, no matter how much his father might want him to be. He isn't a soldier, he won't be a king, but he's braver. And he's willing to do what's right.

Victoria Aveyard

#27. Cal, Archer, Jenna and I managed to achieve something truly impressive: the *four-way* glance.

Rachel Hawkins

#28. Cal's blood might be silver, but his heart is black as burned skin.

Victoria Aveyard

#29. How do I know?" said Cal. "Am I supposed to look after him?

John Steinbeck

#30. Cal stepped forward, hopefully to come to my rescue.
"I could toss her off the pier, Ms. Vanderlyden."
Or not.

Rachel Hawkins

#31. You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

Ted Dekker

#32. [In] NIVO 1, LLC v. Antunez, 217 Cal.App.4th Supp. 1 (2013) The Appellate Division of the Los Angeles Superior Court held that a tenant may not be evicted for failure to buy renter's insurance even if the lease requires purchasing insurance.

Madeline Howard

#33. I sat up and pushed my wet hair out of eyes. Cal was standing a few feet away. I glared at him. Awesome job with the saving.

Rachel Hawkins

#34. Cal was glad Vi's fucking foot had time to heal so both of them could be torn to shreds running through a goddamned forest because fucking Daniel fucking Hart was right now literally stalking his goddamned woman.

Kristen Ashley

#35. I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.

David Salle

#36. Great. We can pick out our colors."
"What?"
"For the wedding. I'm thinking melon and mint. Supposed to be really hot next spring."
Cal laughed out loud, the first time I'd ever heard him do that. "It's a plan. See ya, Sophie.

Rachel Hawkins

#37. I'm not going to call a dog "Dog." I suppose if she were a baby you'd cal her "Person."

Warren Beatty

#38. But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there ... And all that cal.

Anthony Burgess

#39. Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that's exactly where we're all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not.

Brian Williams

#40. So you choose him?'
'Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one.

Victoria Aveyard

#41. Cal stares ahead, as if his eyes alone can set the entire world on fire. I think he wants to. That would make this easier.

Victoria Aveyard

#42. Kilorn shoulders his way to my side, separating us before I can tell Cal my strength and my ability are all I'm sure of now. The electricity in my veins might be the only thing I trust in this world. I

Victoria Aveyard

#43. Up until that point, I'd thought that whatever existed between Cal and me was separate and distinct from the rest of the world. It hadn't occurred to me that a stranger could sense and recognize something so private.

Amber Dermont

#44. Cal's touch has not erased Maven's. My memories are still there, still just as painful as they were yesterday. And as much as I try, I have not forgotten the canyon that will always stretch between us. No kind of love can erase his faults, just like none can erase mine.

Victoria Aveyard

#45. Cal considered. "What did my father do to make her leave?" "He loved her with his whole mind and body. He gave her everything he could imagine.

John Steinbeck

#46. It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.'
'Why are you saying that?'
'She might need permission to die, Cal.'
'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.

Jenny Downham

#47. Evil and Good are things in their own essebce and not made good or evil by the giver. but if he gives you good so cal him; if evil springs from him, do not name it mine till ye know better its true fount
-Lucifer

George Gordon Byron

#48. She left WCF and stepped into the still, chilly air. She loved walking and didn't even mind the cold that much - though she still missed sunny, temperate So-Cal.

Allison Brennan

#49. The choke?" I exclaim, perplexed.
Next to me, Cal tries his best to be civil. His best isn't very good.
"Idiocy," he snaps. "The Choke has more Silvers than you know, each one instructed to arrest or kill you on sight. If you're lucky, they'll take you back to prison.

Victoria Aveyard

#50. I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.

Charlie Haden

#51. Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

Rajneesh

#52. We are nothing more than distractions for each other, and distractions get you killed. But my hands close over his, our fingers lacing, until our bones are woven together. The fire is dying, flames reduced to embers. But Cal is still here. He will never leave me.

Victoria Aveyard

#53. So I've been sexy all these years? Why hasn't anybody noticed?" "Because you dress like you hate your body," Cal said. "Sexy is in your head and you don't feel sexy so you don't look it.

Jennifer Crusie

#54. My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

Condola Rashad

#55. Pizza! Hockey! Destroy!"
-Cal

Rick Riordan

#56. Cal says, Do you want to see my Megazord? You'll have to come to my room because it's defending a city and if I move it, everyone will die.

Jenny Downham

#57. He didn't know why she was there, didn't know why she kept coming back, didn't know, she could have a good man like Haines, why she left Haines's house and ended her night in Cal's bed. And he didn't care. She was there.

Kristen Ashley

#58. While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

Kenneth G. Wilson

#59. When he took her hand to lead her to the swing, she yanked it away and glared at him. He laughed and taunted, "I don't bite, Cal." "I think you do," she too quickly snapped, then flushed.

-Lynx & Calinda

Janelle Taylor

#60. It frightens me about being alone with Cal, at least in daylight. But when night falls, there's no one I'd rather see.

Victoria Aveyard

#61. The boy was the sun in Coriane's sky. On hard days, he split the darkness. On good days, he lit the world. When Tibe went away to the front, for weeks at a time now that the war ran hot again, Cal kept her safe. Only a few months old and better than any shield in the kingdom.

Victoria Aveyard

#62. sometimes I just want to sit in the same place forever because I don't have the energy for another day without Cal in it.

Cath Crowley

#63. You comin' or what? Ryker returned.
Layne glanced through Merry and Cal, nodded and followed Ryker. It would seem big, scary, badass, looking like a raving lunatic Ryker needed his BFF.
Fuck.

Kristen Ashley

#64. Why do you cal me 'Petal'?"

"Because a petal is on every flower, and every flower reminds me of you. Everywhere I go, I'l never forget you,

Sam Crescent

#65. I glanced around at everyone. "It's going to be bad. Worse than bad, probably."
"We'll manage it," Cal said.
"Yeah," Jenna said, smiling shakily. "We're kind of badass in our own right."
I gripped her hand. "Damn straight.

Rachel Hawkins

#66. Stay here! he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal.
I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.

Cate Tiernan

#67. Plus, I have two television sets. How many does Cal have? Oh, that'd be none. I asked. Yeah, Cal doesn't "believe" in TV. Right. You know what I don't believe in? People who don't believe in TV.

Meg Cabot

#68. All thoughts of newbloods and Maven, my brother and Cal and Kilorn are gone entirely. Even the faces that haunt me, the faces of the dead, have disappeared.Funny, now that I'm dying, my ghosts decide to leave. I wish they would come back. I wish I didn't have to die alone.

Victoria Aveyard

#69. When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.

Robert Hass

#70. How much to make her go to her room and stop talking to me?" Cal asked.
While I gaped at his rudeness, Gigi coughed a rather obvious "douchebag!" into her fist. I caught her eye and shook my head emphatically. Douche-coughing someone with superhearing was not a responsible choice.

Molly Harper

#71. We were sitting so close that our hips touched. He smelled nice, like freshly cut grass and sunshine. I wondered if he'd been outside already this morning, or if that's just the way Cal always smelled.

Rachel Hawkins

#72. Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?"
"Poisoned peanut butter."
"Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.

Scott Westerfeld

#73. I remember the feel and smell and taste of him. Heat and wood smoke and sunrise, but no longer. Cal smells like blood, his skin is ice, and I tell myself I don't want to taste him ever again.

Victoria Aveyard

#74. Since it seems your marking your territory , why don't you go ahead and pee on her while you're at it ? " ~ Cal

Nicole Reed

#75. When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that You don't have to explain something you haven't said,

Robert A. Caro

#76. There's no money in that," said Will. "Farmers don't make any money. It's the man who buys from him and sells. You'll never make any money farming." Will knew that Cal was feeling him, testing him, observing him, and he approved of that.

John Steinbeck

#77. I'll never throw these small things away. There will never be a time when I don't want them, all the tiny parts of Cal that made a life.

Cath Crowley

#78. And when she talks of Carrie White her face takes on an odd pinched look that is more like Lovecraft out of Arkham than Kerouac out of Southern Cal.

Stephen King

#79. Cal had been waiting for us at the pond. When he'd seen me, he'd given me a barely perceptible nod, which was the Cal version of waving his hands over his head and yelling, Hey, Sophie!

Rachel Hawkins

#80. Cal's attraction to her was unstoppable - undeniable. Like a thunderbolt piercing his heart, it beat only for her and had since the first time he saw her.

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Nini Church

#81. Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy.

Bradley Whitford

#82. As Cal Bocock sat in the back of the Astoria patol car, he realized his earlier feeling of hitting a low point had been a false alarm. He now fully expected he would die in police custody, in the hands of those he had been pursuing all these months.

Joey Ledford

#83. Fuck me, shut the fuck up," Cal entered the conversation, glaring at both Ryker and Devin. "Caked. Jesus. Seriously? Are we talkin' about cakes?

Kristen Ashley

#84. The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is
ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas
engender social institutions, political changes, technologi-
cal methods of production, and all that is called economic
conditions.

Ludwig Von Mises

#85. You could've just let me bleed to death and saved yourself a lot of hassel."
Cal scowled at him. "I did it for her.

Rachel Hawkins

#86. Cal stares at the floor, silent for a long, stoic moment. "I never thought Maven would do that to her," he mutters finally. "She probably didn't either."
Then you're both stupid, my brain screams. How many times doe one wicked boy have to betray you people before you learn?

Victoria Aveyard

#87. Cal might be born to rule, but Maven was meant for it. And Maven is willing to change the world for us, for the Reds he was raised to spit on.

Victoria Aveyard

#88. Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

Belle Boyd

#89. Sweet Jesus! Sweet, sweet Jesus!" Mom called to the Savior, caught up in the divine intervention that was Hank and me.
I narrowed my eyes at her. "Stop cal ing Jesus, Mom. Hank's gonna think you're weird," I snapped.
"She is weird," Dad said.
"I'm not weird," Mom returned.

Kristen Ashley

#90. He had fallen for Cal like a sperm-whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle.

Jodi Taylor

#91. You talk about Cal, you look like a woman who's talkin' about the man she needs to breathe.

Kristen Ashley

#92. Whenever you go out to eat you gotta get the appetizer. 'Cause the appetizer's just an excuse for an extra meal. You're always like "Lets see, I will start with the 80 buffalo wings ... and do you have a low-cal blue cheese? 'Cause I don't wanna fill up too much."

Jim Gaffigan

#93. She is the Sun and I am the northern star
Different stars made for one purpose
So much alike yet never able to be present at the same time
Missing each other... by only a days time
No I will never forget this sight. Yes her beauty will surely haunt my dreams
~ Cal

A. Hart

#94. In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?

Cate Tiernan

#95. Their empty drinking cups pounding on the table in revolt. "Fill de cup or we piss in de pot!" Okay, Cal led the chant, but Simmons hit his cup on the table along with him.

Stacey Marie Brown

#96. I went to a Cal Tech party after the 'Facebook' movie came out, and there were kids in dark rooms coding because it was cool again. That movie made it cool to sit in a room at a party and write code.

Kerry Bishe

#97. So, destroy? Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout.

Rick Riordan

#98. and can you blame them? I mean, look at me," Cal said, one hand sweeping to take in his frame.

Jonathan P. Brazee

#99. Cal thought: A new player. Terrific. Maybe William Shatner's in here, too. Also Mike Huckabee . . . Kim Kardashian . . . the guy who plays Opie on Sons of Anarchy and the entire cast of The Walking Dead.

Stephen King

#100. I knew."
"What?"
"I knew what you were then, Sophie. Your dad told me before the betrothal. And you told me about your grandmother, and what happened to your grandfather."
I shook my head. "Then, why?"
Cal took his time before answering.

Rachel Hawkins