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answering QUOTES

81 " *I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to what he does for a living. "

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

82 " I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself.
I was up to my chin when the shout came, and I will never forget it. Never. For it seems to me that any hope in life is such a shout; a voice that answers the silent place of despair. It is silence that most needs an answering — when I can no longer speak, hear me. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Stone Gods

83 " I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,
how many yearning thoughts, what great desire,
have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? "

― Dante Alighieri

84 " Is this Jimmy Redstone?” the male voice at the other end of the line inquired. I couldn’t identify the voice. I didn’t recognize the number and the used car salesman tone didn’t do anything to reduce my annoyance at being interrupted during breakfast. “Who the hell you think would be answering his phone?” I snarled. "

85 " The German pilot had come up and was standing by smiling as Mr. Parker Pyne finished answering a long interrogation which he had not understood." What have I said?" he asked of the German" That your father's Christian name is Tourist, that your profession is Charles, that the maiden name of your mother is Baghdad, and that you have come from Harriet. "

86 " Jensen looked concerned." I'm reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better?" He glanced over at Vanelli and got an answering 'I told you so' look that I personally wanted to scrape off Vanelli's face with a blowtorch. "

87 " He drew in an answering breath, and she waited to hear the quip, the joke, the dab of levity for the most intense moment they’d ever shared. But he only dropped his head into the crook of her neck and laid his mouth over her leaping pulse as they found their unhurried rhythm in the dark. "

― Jessica Lemmon , If You Dare

88 " He gently sucked on my lower lip, biting it carefully with his teeth. It sent tingles all over my body and I had to hold on to his strong shoulders, firm under my fingers. I opened my mouth and tugged once on his lip ring. What happened next was the best sound I had ever heard before. He groaned so deeply that I couldn’t keep my answering moan quiet. "

― Stephanie Witter , Six Years

89 " I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. "

― Audre Lorde , Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

90 " You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you. "

― John Banville , The Infinities

91 " What’s that around your neck?” asked Emily.
“It’s a golden star.” Said Reed.
“What did you get it for?”
“Chemistry class.”
“What’s the star for?” the shadow asked, Usually stars represent a straight A student.
“You get it for having greatness. But Emily doesn’t know what that is.” He said, answering the shadows question and looking at Emily.
“Greatness, what’s greatness?” Emily asked, all wide eyed, and clueless looking
“It’s when you do really awesome stuff, and people recognize you for it.”
“Oh, no” Emily laughed .”No, I don’t know what that is. "

― Rumi Antoinette

92 " Isn't that the tie Lily bought for your birthday?" Evan looked down to examine it. It was paisley, a kaleidoscope of color. " Yes it is, as a matter of fact. Good memory. What do you think? Too much?" " It doesn't matter what I think." " But you don't like it." " I think that if you want to wear it, you should wear it." Evan seemed momentarily undecided. " Why do you do that?" " Do what?" " Refuse to answer a simple question." " Because my opinion is irrelevant. You should wear what you want." " Just tell me, okay?" " I don't like your tie." " Really? Why not?" " Because it's ugly." " It's not ugly." Colin nodded. " Okay." " You don't know what you're talking about." " Probably." " You don't even wear ties." " You're right." " So why do I care what you think?" " I don't know." Evan scowled. " Talking to you can be infuriating, you know." " I know. You've said that before." " Of course I've said it before! Because it's true! Didn't we just talk about this the other night? You don't have to say whatever pops into your head." " But you asked." " Just ... Oh, forget it." He turned and started back toward the house. " I'll talk to you later, okay?" " Where are you going?" Evan walked a couple of steps before answering without turning around. " To change my damn tie. And by the way Margolis was right. Your face still looks like it was run through a meat grinder." Colin smiled. " Hey, Evan!" Evan stopped and turned. " What?" " Thanks." " For what?" " For everything." " Yeah, yeah. You're just lucky I won't tell Lily what you said." " You can if you'd like. I already told her." Evan starred. " Of course you did. "

93 " After all answering " mmm" or silence in the story " The story in the Jail" , it's shown that isn't the best idea. "

94 " Like my peers, I believed that the Bible was God's Word written down for me, answering all my questions about who God is and what God wants for my life, from the mundane to the ultimate. Or at least I knew that was what I needed to believe. But that was not what I found when I actually opened the Bible up and looked around inside. "

― Timothy Beal , The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

95 " We cleave our way through the mountains until the interstate dips into a wide basin brimming with blue sky, broken by dusty roads and rocky saddles strung out along the southern horizon. This is our first real glimpse of the famous big-sky country to come, and I couldn't care less. For all its grandeur, the landscape does not move me. And why should it? The sky may be big, it may be blue and limitless and full of promise, but it's also really far away. Really, it's just an illusion. I've been wasting my time. We've all been wasting our time. What good is all this grandeur if it's impermanent, what good all of this promise if it's only fleeting? Who wants to live in a world where suffering is the only thing that lasts, a place where every single thing that ever meant the world to you can be stripped away in an instant? And it will be stripped away, so don't fool yourself. If you're lucky, your life will erode slowly with the ruinous effects of time or recede like the glaciers that carved this land, and you will be left alone to sift through the detritus. If you are unlucky, your world will be snatched out from beneath you like a rug, and you'll be left with nowhere to stand and nothing to stand on. Either way, you're screwed. So why bother? Why grunt and sweat and weep your way through the myriad obstacles, why love, dream, care, when you're only inviting disaster? I'm done answering the call of whippoorwills, the call of smiling faces and fireplaces and cozy rooms. You won't find me building any more nests among the rose blooms. Too many thorns. "

― Jonathan Evison , The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

96 " This little book has been written in the hope that it may appeal to several classes of readers.

Not infrequently I have been asked by friends of different callings in life to recommend them some book on mimicry which shall be reasonably short, well illustrated without being very costly, and not too hard to understand. I have always been obliged to tell them that I know of nothing in our language answering to this description, and it is largely as an attempt to remedy this deficiency that the present little volume has been written. "

― , Mimicry in Butterflies

97 " It's clear that politeness to one's elders can't always be justified on the basis of the elder's superior wisdom. It's just that it's not attractive to see a young person answering an older person back. "

― Zoë Heller , What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

98 " She never opened her mail in the middle of the day. Sometimes she forgot about it for a week or more until people rang to complain. Nor did she check her answering machine messages. In fact, it had only been in the last year that she had finally bought an answering machine, and she steadfastly refused to have a mobile, to the incredulity of all those around her, who didn’t believe that people could actually function without one. But Frieda wanted to be able to escape from incessant communications and demands. She didn’t want to be at anyone’s beck and call, and she liked cutting herself off from the urgent inanities of the world. When she was on her own, she liked to be truly alone. Out of contact and adrift. "

― Nicci French , Blue Monday (Frieda Klein, #1)

99 " Should I ask everyone the question
that should not have been asked?
Or should I
turning up to the sky
be answering the question
that’s not been asked? "

― Suman Pokhrel

100 " What are you most thankful for?” she asked.
My reply came easily. “Being too blessed to have any hope of answering that question. "

― Richelle E. Goodrich , Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year