Kate Tempest Quotes

We die so others can be born
We age so others can be young
The point of life is live,
Love if you can
Then pass it on. ~ Kate Tempest

He stretches his legs out underneath the table and checks Facebook on his phone. It tells him things he doesn't need to know about people he hasn't seen in years. He absorbs their aggressively worded opinions and quasi-political hate-speak. He sees a photograph of his ex-girlfriend with her new boyfriend smiling at a picnic and he realises, with a strange cascade of emptiness, that she is pregnant and wearing an engagement ring. The comments are jubilant. He reads every word before he forces himself to put his phone down. A loneliness descends. He feels its familiar talons grabbing him violently out of his chair and hanging him, swinging, up by the ceiling. Pete ~ Kate Tempest

Millions of characters, each with their own epic narratives singing it's hard to be an angel until you've been a demon. ~ Kate Tempest

How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last? ~ Kate Tempest

Foul smell of the things that we do to escape
There is no glamour in this. No rock and roll.
This is just endings. This is just grief. ~ Kate Tempest

How to follow orders when you're bordering on nausea and you're bored and insecure and dwarfed by fear. ~ Kate Tempest

It gets to painful. You give too much, they take too much, or not enough, and suddenly you find yourself emptied out and open handed, grabbing for some more. ~ Kate Tempest

Winter laid her solemn hands across the city and stroked all the colours out of the sky ~ Kate Tempest

Look again and you will see the Gods rise in the most human and unassuming of eyes. ~ Kate Tempest

His hair was black as onyx and his smile wrapped itself around anyone who saw it. ~ Kate Tempest

she must learn
to forgive herself and move on
'cos what happens in love
is beyond right or wrong; ~ Kae Tempest

Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it. ~ Kate Tempest

It's on us, the people at the bottom to fix things for ourselves even though it's us who suffer the decisions of the people at the top the most ~ Kate Tempest

True love takes its toll
On souls
Who are not used to feeling whole ~ Kate Tempest

Everybody's looking for their tiny piece of meaning. Some fleeting, perfect thing that might make them more alive. ~ Kate Tempest

The world is a terrible place for sensitive people but the closer we come to losing our minds, the harder we'll work to keep them. ~ Kate Tempest

Sun of himself. All things are his moons. ~ Kate Tempest

Youth hates age, age loves youth. This means we are born for unhappiness. This means we will keep buying outfits. ~ Kate Tempest

He won't walk the woods alone:
He'll only walk the heath.
He blanks out all the lives he's known,
But they survive beneath. ~ Kate Tempest

Like you got two lives. And which one's real? Which one's actually the life your living? ~ Kate Tempest

What happened to us? We go parties now, and we've nothing to say to each other 'til we're fucked. And even then. We spend hours talking about parties from before, things that happened to us once, we spend life retelling life and it's pointless and boring. ~ Kate Tempest

You give too much, they take too much, they want too much, or not enough, and suddenly you find yourselves emptied out and open-handed, grabbing for some more. She ~ Kate Tempest

There's no way back,
There is no track
That leads to his past lives.
He sets himself on forwards.
And he loves.
And he survives. ~ Kate Tempest

They were as close and as distant as any family. ~ Kate Tempest

Eventually, Leon's voice limps from his chest and staggers out of his mouth. ~ Kate Tempest

All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He was free once more. Free! He need give up none of his projects, and life still was in his hands for him to do what he liked with. He felt no exhiliration, but only dismay. His heart sank. The future stretched out before him in desolate emptiness. It was as though he had sailed for many years over a great waste of waters, with peril and privation, and at last had come upon a fair haven, but as he was about to enter, some contrary wind had arisen and drove him out again into the open sea; and because he had let his mind dwell on these meads and pleasant woods of the land, the vast deserts of the ocean filled him with anguish. He could not confront again the loneliness and the tempest. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

She would not stop until she beat the devil. ~ Lauren Kate

As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return. ~ Kate Langley Bosher

It made her want to stand up next to him and fight. Fight to stay alive long enough to live out her life next to him. Fight for the only thing she knew that was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be, worth risking everything.
Love. ~ Lauren Kate

In the realms of legend and lore, as well as in real life, the triumph of true love is never a sure thing. ~ Kate Emerson

Sugar had grown up in Charleston, South Carolina: possibly the most luscious of the world's garden cities. Behind every wrought-iron gate or exposed-brick wall in the picturesque peninsula blooming between the Ashley and Cooper Rivers lay a sweet-scented treasure trove of camellias, roses, gardenias, magnolias, tea olives, azaleas and jasmine, everywhere, jasmine.
With its lush greenery, opulent vines, sumptuous hedgerows and candy-colored window boxes, it was no wonder the city's native sons and daughters believed it to be the most beautiful place on earth.
In her first years of exile Sugar had tried to cultivate a reminder of the luxuriant garden delights she had left behind, struggling in sometimes hostile elements to train reluctant honeysuckle and sulky sweet potato vines or nurture creeping jenny and autumn stonecrop. ~ Sarah-Kate Lynch

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends. ~ Kate Spade

There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan. ~ Kate Moss

The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life and make you see the sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in you too. The people that love you simply for being you. The once in a lifetime kind of people. ~ Kate Lattey

I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself. ~ Kate Christensen

Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home. ~ Kate Williams

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading. ~ Kate Mosse

She slept but a few hours. They were troubled and feverish hours, disturbed with dreams that were intangible, that eluded her, leaving only an impression upon her half-awakened senses of something unattainable. She was up and dressed in the cool of the early morning. The air was invigorating and steadied somewhat her faculties. However, she was not seeking refreshment or help from any source, either external or from within. She was blindly following whatever impulse moved her, as if she had placed herself in alien hands for direction, and freed her soul of responsibility. ~ Kate Chopin

The very things I needed to learn were the very things I was trying to teach you. ~ Kate McGahan

Many words made no sense to me; it was a particular kind of language, highly stylized, while at the same time much of the dialogue between officers seemed informal, even casual. What was at once evident was Captain Janeway's love of science, her unusual friendship with the Vulcan Tuvok, her need for adventure, and her mettle. In the pilot script, her name was Elizabeth Janeway, and although I knew I had my work cut out for me, I felt an instant and natural affinity with this woman. I liked her style. ~ Kate Mulgrew

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless. ~ Kate DiCamillo

One child is never enough for a monarch. ~ Kate Williams

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart. ~ Kate DiCamillo

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that. ~ Kate Beckinsale

Derek favored his left side. His horse refused to bear him. I couldn't blame the horse. I wouldn't want his demonic, undead-blood-smeared, wolf-smelling ass riding me, either. But it made us slow. ~ Ilona Andrews

I looked at the things again. Screwdriver, purple toothbrush, map. I thought about how Leo had helped me get a job and how he let us watch Times of Our Seasons at his house every day and how he listened whenever I talked about Ben and my dad but also didn't expect me to talk about Ben or my dad and how Leo always shared the lollipops from the bank with me. (And now I'd given him one back.) How he'd shown me The Tempest with Lisette Chamberlain as Miranda. How he'd completely understood when I'd cried after I'd seen it.
And a thought came to my mind. Even though I'd only known him for part of a summer.
Leo Bishop might be the best friend I'd ever had. ~ Ally Condie

Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere. ~ Kate McGahan

Unhappiness slowly creeps up on you, like a shape-shifting monster waiting in the darkness of your hallway, his bulging eyes watching your every move. The breath on his slimy tongue makes the hairs on your neck stand up. ~ Kate Rockland

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales. ~ Kate Morton

Kate's Daddy had bought her a red BMW for her birthday. I found it to be an absolute miracle of God that Kate hadn't pancaked it yet. She drove like a blind person going into diabetic shock. ~ Courtney Allison Moulton

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

He smiled at me. He did that thing again, where he pulled back his lips and showed me his teeth. He smiled so big it made him sneeze. It was like he was saying, I know i'm a mess. Isn't it funny? ~ Kate DiCamillo

I actually hate shopping. ~ Kate Bosworth

It is not the tempest, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but the still small voice of the Spirit that carries on the glorious work of saving souls. ~ Robert M

The best part was now. That was what she would take with her from her journeys through the ages: He was worth everything to her and she was worth everything to him. The only way to experience that deep level of their love was to enter each new moment together, as if time were made of clouds. And if it came down to it these next nine days, Luce knew that she and Daniel would risk everything for their love. ~ Lauren Kate

What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [ Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun. ~ Kate DiCamillo

Very few entities are powerful enough to create Patinas, and those that can guard them closely. The library is here. But Arriane's right. We'll need to figure out the way in."
"I heard you need an Announcer to get through one," Arriane said.
"Cosmic legend." Annabelle shook her head. "Every Patina is different. Access is entirely up to the creator. They program the code."
"I once heard Cam tell a story at a party about how he accessed a Patina," Rolan said. "Or was that a story about a party that he threw in a Patina?"
"Luce!" Daniel said suddenly, making all of them startle in midair. "It's you. It was always you."
Luce shrugged. "Always me what?"
"You're the one who always rang the bell. You're the one who had entry to the library. You just need to ring the bell."
Luce looked at the empty street, the fog tinting everything around them brown. "What are you talking about? What bell?"
"Close your eyes," Daniel said. "Remember it. Pass into the past and find the bellpull-"
Luce was already there, back at the library the last time she'd been in Vienna with Daniel. Her feet were firmly on the ground. It was raining and her hair splayed all across her face. Her crimson hair ribbons were soaked, but she didn't care. She was looking for something. There was a short path up the courtyard, then a dark alcove outside the library. It had been cold outside, and a fire blazed within. There, in the musty corner near the door, was a woven cord em ~ Lauren Kate

Ran to the hallway, screaming for help. The girls and a few Sunday customers crowded into the room. Kate was writhing on the floor. Two of the regulars lifted her onto Faye's bed and tried to straighten her out, but she screamed and doubled up again. The sweat poured from her body and wet her clothes. ~ John Steinbeck

Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down. ~ Kate Christensen

I'm not up there with Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts. I don't sell tickets. I've known that for a long time. ~ Robin Wright