Maggie Stiefvater quote: "What a strange world this was, that I could come here to lose everything about myself, and instead lose everything but me. It was possible that I’d thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God’s fence. It would be, after all, a divinely ironic punishment to watch me learn to care and then destroy the things I cared about."

I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me -...
CATE TIERNAN

I knew if I gave into it, I’d have to surrender myself completely. I’d lose all control. Everyth...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

I wanted to be with her, like all the time. Eliminate the obstacles, the people and things in our li...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point ...
THOMAS KELLER

My mouth opened.
It happened.
Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling. MARKUS ZUSAK

When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larr...
ALLEN IVERSON

Watching her talk to someone else made me crazy. I was jealous. Ridiculous. I wanted her to know me;...
TAHEREH MAFI

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bo...
DAVID MILLAR

Obviously, that was an incredible Big East battle. I think that's what this league is going to be ab...
JAY WRIGHT

Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, w...
SARAH DESSEN

Not one fuckin’ thing gentlemanly about protecting what’s yours. Looks like you’re gonna lose ...
KRISTEN ASHLEY

I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read abo...
EDDIE MURPHY

Yeah, you lose equipment, You lose the stage. You lose everything else. But the fact of the matter i...
CHAD MURRAY

Yeah, you lose equipment, You lose the stage. You lose everything else. But the fact of the matter i...
CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY

When Sherri asks questions about who would find me if I killed myself and what their reaction would ...
ALBERT BORRIS

I could look and tell you something was a certain color; but it would just be a blur. And everything...
CYNDEE WILLIAMS

Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ...
JOSS WHEDON

Let me make this clear: I didn't want a fight. What I wanted from President Bush was a nominee about...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER

Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really abou...
SARAH DESSEN

I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose every...
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changin...
SARAH DESSEN

38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON

All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION

We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD

There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everythin...
T. SCOTT MCLEOD

I thought over and over about what I was going to do when Carly overdosed and died. How would we go ...
DINA KUCERA

I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunda...
JOHN MARSDEN

That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background,...
DANA MICHELLE BURNETT

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's...
JACKIE ROBINSON

As I began to prune and shrivel I thought about going to the police and falsely confessing to everyt...
PAUL NEILAN

I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what...
C.S. LEWIS

I just worry about what I have do and concentrate on what I have going on. They've thrown pretty muc...
LOGAN MANKINS

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changin...
SARAH DESSEN

She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but th...
RICHELLE MEAD

All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. B...
BLAKE NELSON

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about w...
ELLEN DEGENERES

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what...
DON LARSEN

I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, ca...
JENNIFER ELISABETH

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world ...
CARL HIAASEN

I didn't really want to watch while they were celebrating. When you lose the final game, it doesn't ...
ANTERO NIITTYMAKI

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what...
DON LARSEN

Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my ...
ROBERT ANTHONY

During the day I would move my body to the rhythm that only I could hear. I would try and connect wi...
THE HIPPIE

Bottom line, Eliza— you’re my home and my family, and I don’t want to lose you.
I could l...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO

You never want to admit your happy after a loss, but if we're going to lose, this is how I want to l...
JAMES INGBER

I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me...
DEB CALETTI

I was praying . . . I was praying that everything would go well. It was just awesome. I dream about ...
HERB FULLERTON

And it occurred to me, standing there in that bleak, cavernous space, that nobody is ever just one t...
A.W. HILL

I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you rea...
MUSIQ SOULCHILD

It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, n...
ALETHEA KONTIS

Oh, tradition was everything in this one. Our tradition here creates a refuse-to-lose attitude.
GLEN DRURY

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomp...
JELLY ROLL MORTON

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearanc...
RICKY WILLIAMS

Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I kne...
JENNIFER ASHLEY

I was only going to catch one game [for Mexico]. I thought it would be better for me to work with th...
HUMBERTO COTA

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you&#...
LEBRON JAMES

We are two All-Stars. We don't want our teams to lose the game. It was unfortunate that one team had...
LEBRON JAMES

When Sven said about me not being on top form I think he is right, ... It is early in the season and...
FRANK LAMPARD

It was so demoralizing to lose my body and begin to realize that my whole future may be set on its e...
LAURA HILLENBRAND

I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, t...
JACKIE ROBINSON

I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Hea...
BRIGHAM YOUNG

But then I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and neve...
VERONICA ROTH

I was kind of hoping it would come down to the final match. It makes it more fun. There's always a p...
DEXTER LARIMORE

I hoped my solitude would help me reclaim my innocence, remember who I’d been, to find who I wante...
ASPEN MATIS

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that&#...
LOU HOLTZ

Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.
So, ...
LAURA ANDERSON KURK

It wasn’t an easy, sweet kiss like I’d imagined my first would be, but frustrated and hungry. Th...
JODI MEADOWS

It felt like I was living in two worlds. There was one world which was a daylight world and another ...
LAURIE MATTHEW

It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted lik...
RAYMOND RADIGUET

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, b...
JAMES BALDWIN

When I got here, there were a lot of guys who would lose a game, and then right after the game they'...
BRIAN GREENE

Our relationship wasn’t easy. It wasn’t mellow. It wasn’t comfortable and sedate. He was too b...
KRISTEN ASHLEY

But at one point, Craig was talking about something, and Sam turned to me and smiled. It was a movie...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about ...
WILLIAM SAROYAN

I was so attentive to my great-grandmother because I wanted to learn everything. I could barely reac...
VANESSA RILEY

Brida’s eyes filled with tears. She was proud of her Soulmate.

That is what the forest...
PAULO COELHO

Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose ...
MARY GORDON

I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about...
PAULA JONES

And then the third night was after we broke up, which was worth a million matches but instead just t...
DANIEL HANDLER

It is easy to see in retrospect that what I longed for was not a boyfriend but a version of me witho...
JOEL DERFNER

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN

After the season, ... when you stop and look at the numbers and look at everything, I'm not going to...
CORNELIUS GRIFFIN

There was a possibility that God really did love me, me Maya Angelou. I suddenly began to cry at the...
MAYA ANGELOU

Bliss, I don’t normally do things like that. But I was second-guessing everything about coming her...
CORA CARMACK

That loss provided me motivation, I had to remember what it was like to lose to get even more focuse...
GABE HALE

The thing that surprised me in terms of what happened here months ago - then you go downtown - it's ...
MAURICE CARTHON

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my ...
CHUCK YEAGER

I had spent all of that time at sea. And I had a job I didn't care about. ... That was the reason th...
ROBERT ANDERSON

I don't like to lose. I like to be the best at everything I do. And I come from a family who doesn't...
CORPERRYALE HARRIS

Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach... I could make promises to myself and to other...
JOAN DIDION

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get somethin...
JODI PICOULT

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give ...
DAVID CHRISTIAN

I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I ...
G. GORDON LIDDY

If I had it my way, Harper and I wouldn't be standing in this room right now, we wouldn't be pressed...
MOLLY MCADAMS

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short whil...
DANIEL KEYES

I found myself in a rhythm after the first couple of shots that I got. Everything after that was eas...
IVAN RADENOVIC

The windows were blowing out, and something hit me in the head. I thought I was going to lose consci...
DAISY BLACK

I know what it is like to be devastated and lose everything,
JACK ALLEN

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be r...
HERMANN MAIER

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