Quotes of: Half Keyword

I have a subconscious list of rules for how reality should work. I did not develop these rules on purpose, and most of them don’t make sense – which is disturbing when you consider that they are an attempt to govern the behavior of reality – bu...

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half the morning was gone. More than half the time for sitting and trying to write the prose that would make people sit up and gasp. It happened that way mo...

Collected Stories, Vol. 1

The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The people we love get under our skin and crawl through our veins and fine their way into our heart. They choke up our blood flow and mess up our breathing and tangle themselves through our bodies like wire. Like razors, like fire. We remember them e...

The Half Life of Molly Pierce

Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's ...

Remember Me?

Slant narrowed his eyes. “Do the Clans walk alone into the final battle?” Half Moon flattened her ears. “Never alone!” She lifted her chin. “I will fight alongside Jayfeather.” Broken Shadow unsheathed her claws. “And I will fight along...

The Last Hope

It was Ebon's turn now, and he stepped forward and gave the pegasus' great clarion neigh -- far more like a trumpet than a horse's neigh; hollow bones are wonderful for resonance -- and swept his wings forward to touch, or almost touch, his alula-han...

Pegasus

A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel and feeling fine, and it is no good writing a whole novel feeling miserable. It has to be both, that mixture of anxiety and ambition, and you...

Martin Amis

Sid: [Dragging a stick] Phew. I'm wiped out. Manfred: That's your shelter? Sid: Hey, you're a big guy, you got a lot of wood. I'm a little guy. Manfred: You got half a stick. Sid: Yes, but with this little stick and my highly-evolved brain... [accide...

Ice Age

Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live within the rush of primal, intu...

Victoria Erickson

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

The Chill

...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...

A Familiar Rain

A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.

The Hand of Ethelberta

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

Half Broke Horses

Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.

Half Moon Investigations

If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Michael Ende

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. "

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I like a quiet life, you know me.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince