Missed Quotes

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Holly Black
“He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. “For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.”

I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?”

He grins up at me. “They missed.”
Holly Black, The Wicked King

Toba Beta
“When you don't know where to start,
just go to a place you miss so much.”
Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Erik Pevernagie
“The keen edge that may save emotional waifs and strays from numbness is the enlivening hunch of being dearly missed or expected. This very outlook ensures a comforting ground for faltering footfalls. ("Knowing someone was waiting")”
Erik Pevernagie

Toba Beta
“If you feel that everything's too damn okay,
then it is just a sign that something is wrong.”
Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Toba Beta
“The fake missed sincerity.”
Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Daniel Handler
“Dark, light, dark, light, dark-I swung and missed.”
Daniel Handler, The Basic Eight

Ahmed Mostafa
“Thank you for undusting my true colors; or color: black... Oh, how I missed the darkness!”
Ahmed Mostafa

Ann Brashares
“Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever get. She cried for Bailey, for Tibby, for the resolute clump of cells making headway in her uterus, and for Marly, her poor, sad mother, who'd missed everything.”
Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

Mehmet Murat ildan
“The opportunities you missed, the streets you didn't walk, the people you didn't talk and the dreams you didn't dream will be the fate of others, not yours!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Lara Prior-Palmer
“It usually seems best to be absent and slightly missed rather than present but distant.”
Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

Ken Poirot
“Funny how so many missed me when I was gone yet so few appreciated me when I was here.”
Ken Poirot

Pushpa Rana
“I dream of the
summers we kissed,
winters we missed,
spring that blossomed,
withering of the autumn,
with hope in my heart,
I dream of getting you back.”
Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

Laura Chouette
“Today is keeping our tomorrow alive - even if we think that we missed already.”
Laura Chouette

Paul Kalanithi
“Paul napped comfortably in the afternoon. But he was gravely ill. I started to cry as I watched him sleep. I crept out to our living room where his father's tears joined mine. I already missed him.”
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

Nitya Prakash
“People leave for the urge to be missed not for the urge to be remembered.”
Nitya Prakash

Nitya Prakash
“All the meaningful things you have missed seeing clearly because worry has you in a constant choke-hold.”
Nitya Prakash

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Humility empties us of ourselves so that we can be filled with all of the things that we would otherwise never realize we had missed.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ron Baratono
“Robin,
We will always remember the laughter in your eyes. The way they seem to light up each time you made us smile. You were always laughing with us, that's how you made us feel. You’re forever in our thoughts, and always missed. Rest in peace Robin Williams.”
Ron Baratono

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I want to be careful about how much time I’m spending thinking about ‘what was’ or ‘what might be,’ for in doing so I will spend my life missing ‘what is.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Victor Vote
“I do everything with love; show me those who act through love, I will show you a man who died on the cross; killed by those who he fed. His love was called pride, insubordination and churlish but after his death, he was missed. Our value is without compliments until we are gone, until we become unreachable, until we are scarce.”
Victor Vote

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The only time that pain is not opportunity is when we won’t let it be. But even then, it is opportunity even though we have rendered it opportunity missed.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If my vision comes to a halt at the surface of a thing, I have missed the whole of the thing.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Anthony T. Hincks
“If you waited for today, you missed your tomorrow.”
Anthony T. Hincks

“When the person is no more, the personality is missed.
A vacuum is created, nothing can filled the space.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Steven Magee
“President Obama missed a golden opportunity at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm to reform the utility and solar power industries into much safer places!”
Steven Magee

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Have we yet come to understand that if we missed the mark it was not for lack of aim? It was simply that we were aiming at something else.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Steven Magee
“The biggest thing I have thrown at my ex during an argument was a kitchen spoon. I missed and broke an ornament. I need to work on improving my aim.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“The biggest thing my ex threw at me during an argument was her cell phone. It missed. She needs to work on improving her aim.”
Steven Magee

Anne Elisabeth Stengl
“Lumé's crown and scepter! I never thought I'd see the day when your voice would give me joy!"
There was a long pause. Then, "Dragon-eaten vapors. For a moment, I thought that was real. Ah well. . ."
"No! Glomar!" Eanrin shouted. "Glomar, you blundering oaf of a badger-man, stay where you are!"
"That was more like. Is that you there, cat?”
Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Starflower

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I don’t think that most opportunity is ‘missed.’ Rather, I think it’s forfeited.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

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