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21 " The poet dreams of the mountain

Sometimes I grow weary of the days, with all their fits and starts.
I want to climb some old gray mountains, slowly, taking
The rest of my lifetime to do it, resting often, sleeping
Under the pines or, above them, on the unclothed rocks.
I want to see how many stars are still in the sky
That we have smothered for years now, a century at least.
I want to look back at everything, forgiving it all,
And peaceful, knowing the last thing there is to know.
All that urgency! Not what the earth is about!
How silent the trees, their poetry being of themselves only.
I want to take slow steps, and think appropriate thoughts.
In ten thousand years, maybe, a piece of the mountain will fall. "

― Mary Oliver , Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

22 " If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.


If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion.

Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art. "

― Neil Gaiman

23 " I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing I wanted was to be like my dad. It took becoming a man to realize how lucky I’d been. It took a few hard knocks in life to make me realize the only thing my dad had ever wanted or worked for was to give me a chance at being better than him. "

― Tucker Elliot , The Rainy Season

24 " Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I’ll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I’m not saying this because I need a place to stay. That’s the last thing I need. I told you, I’m a walking man, but I been heading in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; I been in territory ain’t got no name, never staying nowhere long. But when I got here and sat out there on the porch, waiting for you, well, I knew it wasn’t the place I was heading toward; it was you. We can make a life, girl. A life. "

― Toni Morrison , Beloved

25 " I just wouldn’t want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my
experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they’re both.
Maybe it’s a blessing, because the last thing I need is relationship drama to sidetrack me from my grades. "

― Daria Snadowsky , Anatomy of a Boyfriend (Anatomy, #1)

26 " And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault after fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him.... The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the coloured arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. "

― Sylvia Plath , The Bell Jar

27 " I felt my cheeks turn red, and she laughed out loud. But I didn't mind too much, because the last thing she saw was my middle finger aimed in her direction as I stepped outside "

― Jessica Verday , The Hollow (The Hollow, #1)

28 " In my mind, she was Lebkuchen Spice—ironic, Germanic, sexy, and off beat. And, mein Gott, the girl could bake a damn fine cookie … to the point that I wanted to answer her What do you want for Christmas? with a simple More cookies, please!

But no. She warned me not to be a smart-ass, and while that answer was totally sincere, I was afraid she would think I was joking or,
worse, kissing up.

It was a hard question, especially if I had to batten down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I’d probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas. I could play the boo-hoo orphan card and wish for my whole family to be together, but that was the last thing I wanted, especially at this late date. "

― David Levithan , Dash & Lily's Book of Dares (Dash & Lily, #1)

29 " It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog. "

― Holly Hood , Ink (Ink, #1)

30 " But eating was the last thing on my mind. And I didn't see how Miss Wilcox could eat, or teach, or sleep or ever find any reason to leave this room. Not with all these books in it, just begging to be read. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , A Northern Light

31 " Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying. "

― Bangambiki Habyarimana , Pearls Of Eternity

32 " ...I clutched her hand and pulled it to my chest. " Make me a promise, Reagan," I whispered. " Anything, name it." " If I ever treat you anything less than precious, promise that you'll tell me so and remind me of this conversation." " I promise, and promise me that you'll do the same." We linked our fingers as we did sitting in my car, which seemed like a lifetime ago. The feeling of that connection was the last thing I was aware of before we both drifted off to sleep. "

33 " But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing. "

― Sarah Addison Allen , The Peach Keeper

34 " Good Lord, just look at that six pack!” She sighed. “I think you could grate cheese there.”“Fran, if you were with Daniel Craig with no shirt, I think the last thing you would think about would be grating cheese. "

35 " -“Forced love hurts God.”
-“How can you hurt something that doesn’t exist?”
-“At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.”
- “I was once so open to the world it hurts”
- “Act natural is the worst thing you can say to an actor. They simply forget how to be.”
-“Until the first thing they learn are the last thing they forget.”
-“It wasn’t just talking back to him, it was the confidence to be calm doing it.”
-“The fact that the nation has gone to war does not make those who opposed it at the beginning, and those who oppose it now, traitors.”
-“This beauty is a force, and it will never lose.”
-“how a cause cements two people, masks their differences as secondary to the purpose at hand”
- "

― Anna Funder , All That I Am

36 " With ravenous passion and reckless ambition he forged his thoughts into words, obsessed with the notion that dying would not be the last thing he would do. "

37 " Inside, Harrison came face to face with
a small man wearing immense plus fours.
“Looking for someone?” asked the small man.
“Yes, the fire chief.”
“Who’s he?”
By now prepared for this sort of thing, Harrison
spoke as one would to a child. “See here, Mister, this
is a fire-fighting outfit. Somebody bosses it. Somebody
organizes the whole affair, fills forms, presses
buttons, shouts orders, recommends promotions,
kicks the shiftless, grabs all the credit, transfers all
the blame and generally lords it around. He’s the
most important man in the bunch and everybody
knows it.” His forefinger tapped imperatively on the
other’s chest. “And he is the fellow I’m going to talk
to if it’s the last thing I do.”
“Nobody is more important than anyone else.
How can he be? I think you’re crazy.”
“You’re welcome to think what you please but I
am telling you that—.”
A shrill bell clamoured, cutting off his sentence. "

― Eric Frank Russell , The Great Explosion

38 " When he pursed his lips and dropped a hand into his coat pocket, the last thing Nur expected him to pull out was a cricket ball. " I'd hoped for a disruptor at least," she muttered reprovingly. The Doctor slipped three fingers around the ball and hefted it experimentally. " I thought we'd try something a little less excessive." He breathed gently on to the maroon leather and polished it on his leg as the Sontaran finally tossed the Kshatriya aside and stopped to pick up its fallen weapon. He stepped around the corner, sighting along his free arm as the Sontaran straightened, its back fully turned. The cricket ball flashed down the length of the corridor in the blink of an eye, punching into the back of the Sontaran's collar and ricocheting away. To Nur's astonishment, the alien spasmed and crashed to the floor like a falling tree. " Out for a duck," the Doctor commented, blowing across his fingertips. " I've never seen anything killed by a cricket ball before." " You haven't yet. He'll wake up in a few minutes. "

39 " I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. "

― George Meredith , The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

40 " I see football as an art and all players are artists.
If you are a top artist, the last thing you would do is paint a picture somebody else has already painted. "

― Cristiano Ronaldo