Would Be Quotes (page 131)

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• hero
• himself
• heros

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. Mark Twain

• hand
• play
• thoughts

Isabella." He pronounced my full name carefully, then playfully ruffled my hair with his free hand. A shock ran through my body at his casual touch. "Bella, I couldn't live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don't know how it's tortured me." He looked down, ashamed again. "The thought of you, still, white, cold . . . to never see you blush scarlet again, to never see that flash of intuition in your eyes when you see through my pretenses . . . it would be unendurable." he lifted his glorious,... Stephenie Meyer

• time
• would
• timely

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. Charles de Lint

• life
• lost
• she

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. Jean Rhys

• definite
• definitely
• exclusive

Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false. Walter Martin

• good
• dream
• dead

Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about. L. M. Montgomery

• saying
• unfair
• may

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them. Kenneth Clark

• hand
• handful
• pearl

Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. Jack Kerouac

• running
• writing
• his

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years. George Orwell

• death
• negativity
• die

If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action. Emile M. Cioran

• words
• logic
• pretenders

It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it. Elizabeth Goudge

• world
• my everything
• owns

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Lewis Carroll

• manly
• bear
• hell

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw

• simple
• good
• motivational

I'd loved in so many bodies, but never one I loved like this. Never one that I craved in this way. Of course, this would be the one I'd have to give up. The irony made me laugh, and I concentrated on the feel of the air that popped in little bubbles from my chest and up through my throat. Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body, making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer? I couldn't remember one. Stephenie Meyer

• book
• happy him
• personality

What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does... Fernando Pessoa