Quotes of: Curses Keyword

...socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.

Curse of the Pogo Stick

You don't smile enough, Coop. I smile, I tell her defensively. She puts a hand on my shoulder and squares off with me. But not like you mean it.

Cursed be the Wicked

I turn my head so that he doesn't see my smile and secretly curse him for making me feel special.

The Distance Between Us

I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.

Ella Enchanted

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

The Game of Kings

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

Blood And Gold

I have no heartbeat; I breathe no oxygen; I'm nothing to anyone; I'm not real. And yet I'm cursed with a brain that won't rest; it torments me.

Broken

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

The Book of Air and Shadows

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

The Book Thief

Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he'll eat right out of your hand.

The Assassin's Curse

She moved like water, graceful and soft and lovely. Every part of me wanted to stick out my foot and trip her, just to see her stumble.

The Assassin's Curse

Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go back to.

Antídoto

We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.

Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.

John Halifax, Gentleman

You're murderers," she told the stunned crowd. "You killed him. He was a miracle, and you killed him. Now you've just got me. And I'm a curse.

Jenny Pox

Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.

Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

Time becomes meaningless without memory and we humans have a unique consciousness that allows us to live in the past or the future, which is actually more of a curse than a useful superpower.

Resolution

He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future--

The Seekers

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had arrived.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

For I had loved Seid even in his darkest hours, even as he cursed me and we rode upon a fine line between ardor and abhorrence

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