Rumor Quotes

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Jesper couldn’t quite believe he was having a conversation with the Sturmhond. The privateer was a legend. He’d broken countless blockades on behalf of the Ravkans and there were rumors that… β€œDo you really have a flying ship? blurted Jesper. β€œNo.” β€œOh.” β€œI have several.” β€œTake me with you.
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Leigh Bardugo (Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2))
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
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Gautama Buddha
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You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.
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Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)
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I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had, or maybe still had but that they didn't agree with.
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Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)
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Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.
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Shannon L. Alder
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Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.
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Ziad K. Abdelnour (Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics)
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A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
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Terry Pratchett (The Truth: Stage Adaptation)
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Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.
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Shannon L. Alder
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This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life.
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C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
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There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.
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Shannon L. Alder
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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Will Rogers
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I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. β€œBut I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.
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Patrick Rothfuss (The Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2))
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Gustave Flaubert (November)
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Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.
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Shannon L. Alder
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A coward talks to everyone but YOU.
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Shannon L. Alder
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There was also a rumor that later in the day, she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange. Something about a kiss. Something about a Saumensch. How many times did she have to say goodbye?
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Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
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You'll be a rumor. A whisper. The thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. The last thing you will ever be, girl, is someone's hero.
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Jay Kristoff (Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1))
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A week went by and nothing. But eventually, as they always will, the rumors reached me. And everyone knows you can't disprove a rumor.
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Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)
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...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.
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Nina LaCour (Hold Still)
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Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.
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Terry Pratchett (Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind, #3))
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I don't really care what people say about me. I'm fine with lies and rumors. It's the truth I don't want being told.
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Katja Millay (The Sea of Tranquility)
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Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.
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Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2))
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It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.
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David Weber (Field of Dishonor (Honor Harrington, #4))
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This is so cool!" Nico said, jumping up and down in the driver's seat. "Is this really the sun? I thought Helios and Selene were the sun and moon gods. How come sometimes it's them and sometimes it's you and Artemis?" "Downsizing," Apollo said. "The Romans started it. They couldn't afford all those temple sacrifices, so they laid off Helios and Selene and folded their duties into our job descriptions. My sis got the moon. I got the sun. It was pretty annoying at first, but at least I got this cool car." "But how does it work?" Nico asked. "I thought the sun was a big fiery ball of gas!" Apollo chuckled and ruffled Nico's hair. "That rumor probably got started because Artemis used to call me a big fiery ball of gas.
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Rick Riordan (The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3))
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The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.
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Michael Jordan (I Can't Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence)
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People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
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George Eliot (Middlemarch)
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So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.
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Anna Godbersen (Rumors (Luxe, #2))
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Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is grinning. β€œHeard a rumor you were a dirty traitor,” Uriah says. β€œYeah, whatever,” says Zeke. They collide in an embrace that looks almost painful to me, slapping each other’s backs and laughing with their fists clasped between them.
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Veronica Roth (Insurgent (Divergent, #2))
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I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them
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Adlai E. Stevenson II
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I'm dead, not impotent. Nasty rumors like that must be squashed before they gain momentum. Feel free to emphasize how very functional I am.
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Rachel Vincent (If I Die (Soul Screamers, #5))
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Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead.
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Jonathan Tropper (This is Where I Leave You)
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Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.
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Shannon L. Alder
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Rumors are spread by jealous people
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)
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Percy says be talked to a Nereid in Charleston Harbor!” β€œGood for him!” Leo yelled back. β€œThe Nereid said we should seek help from Chiron’s brothers.” β€œWhat does that mean? The Party Ponies?” Leo had never met Chiron’s crazy centaur relatives, but he’d heard rumors of Nerf sword-fights, root beer-chugging contests, and Super Soakers filled with pressurized whipped cream. β€œNot sure,” Annabeth said. β€œBut I’ve got coordinates. Can you input latitude and longitude in this thing?” β€œI can input star charts and order you a smoothie, if you want. Of course I can do latitude and longitude!
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Rick Riordan (The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3))
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Paul McCartney
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I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.
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Stephen King (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption)
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You'll be eighteen soon, but even so…" He sighed. "When this comes out, a lot of people aren't going to be happy." "Yeah, well, they can deal." Rumors and gossip I could handle. "I also have a feeling your mother's going to have a very ugly conversation with me." "You're about to face down Strigoi, and my mother's the one you're scared of?
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Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))
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VendrΓ­amos de la mano, a media calle, solos, y no dirΓ­amos nada. Que lo diga la noche. Que digan que te quiero las estrellas, los rumores lejanos, la distancia.
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Jaime Sabines (Los amorosos: Cartas a Chepita)
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If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is just enough for both of you to release the truth, so healing can occur. The opposite is true, as well. If you don’t have feelings for someone then never let another person suggest that you do. Protect your reputation and be responsible for the wrong information spread about you. Never allow anyone to live with a false belief or unfounded hope about you. An honorable person sets the record straight, so that person can move on with their life.
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Shannon L. Alder
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It’s always been this way. There were rumors about me even before I was born. It’s why my mother never calls me Sobachka. She says it makes me sound like a mongrel.” My heart gave a little pang at that. I’d been called plenty of names growing up. β€œI like mongrels,” I said. β€œThey have cute floppy ears.” β€œMy ears are very dignified.
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Leigh Bardugo (Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2))
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News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.
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Toba Beta (My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut)
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Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
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Anna Godbersen (Rumors (Luxe, #2))
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But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.
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A.S. King (Ask the Passengers)
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Nick leaned forward, his eyes practically burning. "Or maybe the rumor is true. Maybe you didn't kill him because you're in love with him.
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Rachel Hawkins (Demonglass (Hex Hall, #2))
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Memory... is an internal rumor.
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George Santayana
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Rumor has it your dad brought her flowers and she pulled off every petal and used them to spell PUTA in the snow.
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Christina Lauren (The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1))
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Shh," he said. "Look." "Where?" "Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you." "Me?" "Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.
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Katherine Paterson (Bridge to Terabithia)
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When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.
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Osamu Dazai (The Setting Sun (New Directions Book))
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There are rumors that your Lantsov prince has been sighted.” I drifted nearer, trying to keep my voice casual. β€œWhere?” He glanced up, his lips curling in a slight smile. β€œDo you like him?” β€œDoes it matter?” β€œIt’s harder when you like them. You mourn them more.” β€œTell me, Alina,” said the Darkling. β€œHas he claimed you yet?” β€œClaimed me? Like a peninsula?” β€œNo blushes. No averted eyes. How you’ve changed. What about your faithful tracker? Will he sleep curled at the foot of your throne?
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Leigh Bardugo (Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3))
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Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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We need not be paranoiac but let us follow our path, with consistency and common sense, and avoid being run over by the steamroller of social media through loose-tongued prattle and unthoughtful actions. We must be aware that loose lips sink ships. (β€œJuicy rumors”)
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Erik Pevernagie
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Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.
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John Crowley (Little, Big)
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Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
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William Shakespeare (Henry IV, Part Two)
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Let us not get scooped up by gaslighting manipulators stealing our emotions and taking possession of our inner child to carry out their dark agenda. Let the light of our intuition guide us subtly and wisely along the path of trust and suspicion. (β€œJuicy rumors”)
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Erik Pevernagie
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A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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She walks to the boy, tilts her head up at him, and smiles. He bends down to kiss her. Then he helps her onto the horse, and she rides away with him to a faraway place, until they can no longer be seen. These are only rumors, of course, and make little more than a story to tell around the fire. But it is told. And thus they live on.
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Marie Lu (The Midnight Star (The Young Elites, #3))
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I intend to put an end to the rumors of the darling Princess Selene once and for all.
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Marissa Meyer (Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4))
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If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.
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Toba Beta (Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza)
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Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year)
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The couples learn to distrust what’s said about them in the media and to turn inward toward each other in times of crisis. Dina Matos McGreevey, former wife of New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey wrote, β€œYes, I’d once or twice heard the rumor that Jim was gay, but I dismissed it just as I dismissed many other stories, most of which I knew not to be true.
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Anne Michaud (Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives)
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Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.
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Steve Maraboli (Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)
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When you are rich and powerful, no one will challenge you to your face or give you a chance to explain yourself. All the whispers are behind your back. You are left with no means of clearing your own name. And after a while you realize there is no point in even attempting to do so. No one wants the truth. All anyone wants is the chance to add more fuel to the fires of gossip. The whispers become so loud that sometimes you think you will drown in them.
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Amanda Quick (Ravished)
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You see!" said a strained voice. Tonks was glaring at Lupin. "She still wants to marry him, even though he's been bitten! She doesn't care!" "It's different," said Lupin, barely moving his lips and looking suddenly tense. "Bill will not be a full werewolf. The cases are completely-" "But I don't care either, I don't care!" said Tonks, seizing the front of Lupin's robes and shaking them. "I've told you a million times...." And the meaning of Tonk's Patronus and her mouse-colored hair, and the reason she had come running to find Dumbledore when she had heard a rumor someone had been attacked by Greyback, all suddenly became clear to Harry; it had not been Sirius that Tonks had fallen in love with after all. "And I've told you a million times," said Lupin, refusing to meet her eyes, staring at the floor, "that I am too old for you, too poor....too dangerous...." "I've said all along you're taking a ridiculous line on this, Remus," said Mrs. Weasley over Fleur's shoulder as she patted her on the back. "I am not being ridiculous," said Lupin steadily. "Tonks deserves somebody young and whole." "But she wants you," said Mr. Weasley, with a small smile. "And after all, Remus, young and whole men do not necessarily remain so." He gestured sadly at his son, lying between them. "This is....not the moment to discuss it," said Lupin, avoiding everybody's eyes as he looked around distractedly. "Dumbledore is dead...." "Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world," said Professor McGonagall curtly...
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.
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John Irving (In One Person)
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When your body takes up more room than your voice, you are always the target of well-aimed rumors.
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Elizabeth Acevedo (The Poet X)
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Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.
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Laurell K. Hamilton (Obsidian Butterfly (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #9))
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And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.
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Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)
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In a lightning-fast move, he placed both of his hands on the brick wall, caging me with his body. He leaned toward me and my heart shifted into a gear I didn't know existed. His warm breath caressed my neck, melting my frozen skin. I tilted my head, waiting for the solid warmth of his body on mine. I could see his eyes again and those dark orbs screamed hunger . "I heard a rumor." "What's that?" I struggled to get out. "It's your birthday." Terrified speaking would break the spell, I licked my suddenly dry lips and nodded. "Happy birthday." Noah drew his lips closer to mine; that sweet musky smell overwhelmed my senses. I could almost taste his lips when he unexpectedly took a step back, inhaling deeply. The cold air slapped me into the land of sober.
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Katie McGarry (Pushing the Limits (Pushing the Limits, #1))
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Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.
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Shannon L. Alder
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I've heard the rumors but you won't come clean. I guess I'm hoping it's because of me...
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Selena GΓ³mez
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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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Aeschylus (Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1))
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Rumors are born with legs that can run a mile in less than a minute. Rumors eat up dreams without condiments. Rumors do not have expiration dates. Rumors can be deadly. Rumors can get you killed.
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Tiffany D. Jackson (Monday's Not Coming)
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We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.
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Kamand Kojouri
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Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot.
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Ilona Andrews (On the Edge (The Edge, #1))
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A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. β€œDon’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…
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Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
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Yeah? Feels like we just traded one set of rumors for another. We still have no idea where he is, what his plans are, or even what he looks like." Patience, dear girl, patience." Easy for you to say. You're immortal.
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D.D. Barant
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Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.
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Anna Godbersen (Rumors (Luxe, #2))
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It's funny how the people who know the least about you, always have the most to say.
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Oscar Auliq-Ice
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Whispers are rare, dangerous, and powerful, even among the Silvers, even in the capital. The rumors about them vary, but it boils down to something simple and chilling: they can enter your head, read your thoughts, and control your mind.
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Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen (Red Queen, #1))
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When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness - and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments. No doubt all of this is not true remembrance but the ruinous work of nostalgia, which obliterates the past, and no doubt, as usual, I have exaggerated everything.
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Michael Chabon (The Mysteries of Pittsburgh)
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People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.
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Dennis E. Adonis
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Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.
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Mark Millar (Superman: Red Son)
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Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong β€” or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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...guilt is often assumed before innocence can be proven.
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Miguel Syjuco
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Rumor has it she was your Champion this fall. Do you wish to deal with this?" Dorian said smoothly, "You will find, Rolfe, that one does not deal with Celaena Sardothien. One survives her." ... Aelin and Aelin looked at each other. The one in black grinned up at the newcomer. "Oh, you ARE gorgeous, aren't you?" ... Aelin and Lysandra fixed the warrior with an unimpressed look that would have sent lesser men running.
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Sarah J. Maas (Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5))
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Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
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Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders)
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Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (The School for Scandal)
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My sisters were the coolest people I knew, and still are. I have always aspired to be like them and know what they know. My sisters were the color and noise in my black-and-white boy world-how I pitied my friends who had brothers. Boys seemed incredibly tedious and dim compared to my sisters, who were always a rush of energy and excitement, buzzing over all the books, records, jokes, rumors and ideas we were discovering together. I grew up thriving on the commotion of their girl noise, whether they were laughing or singing or staging an intervention because somebody was wearing stirrup pants. I always loved being lost in that girl noise.
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Rob Sheffield (Talking to Girls About Duran Duran)
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Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.
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Shannon L. Alder
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Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city.
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Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)
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If one is content to freely speak trash about another, it is probably more correct to judge them as the one of ill repute and refuse the load of garbage they offer you.
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year)
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The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
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Douglas Malloch
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My life is over. My one forever love has been snatched away, condemned by my own father's rules to die, just because he loved me. I am without a home, without a single person to love. And after having discovered love, lived for a short while surrounded by love, that is to much to bear. I am a pariah, at church, at school. The few people I once called friends have betrayed me and caused the death of my husband, our innocent child. And so they should die too. All of them. Dad. Bishop Crandall. Trevor, Becca, Emily. With the pull of a 10mm hair trigger, their lives will end at sacrament meeting. Such lovely irony! And when I finish there, I'll hide in the desert, reload, and go in search of Carmen and Tiffany, who started the rumors. And Derek, just because.
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Ellen Hopkins
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No. I came here to see you. I didn’t believe the rumors,but after hearing it on so many continents I had to come andsee for myself.” β€œSee what?” His eyes widened in adulation, his voice taking on areverent tone. β€œIf it was true that Helen of Troy, nay, Aphrodite herself had been reincarnated in gym teacher form.” The room was utterly silent. Except Vicious Redhead’s jaw dropping to the ground with a little plink. Or maybe I imagined that. And then the class did the worst thingpossible: They started giggling. Miss Lynn was going tomurder me.
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Kiersten White (Supernaturally (Paranormalcy, #2))
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You, yesterday’s boy, to whom confusion came: Listen, lest you forget who you are. It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy. You were called to be bridegroom, though the bride coming toward you is your shame. What chose you is the great desire. Now all flesh bares itself to you. On pious images pale cheeks blush with a strange fire. Your senses uncoil like snakes awakened by the beat of the tambourine. Then suddenly you’re left all alone with your body that can’t love you and your will that can’t save you. But now, like a whispering in dark streets, rumors of God run through your dark blood.
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Rainer Maria Rilke (Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God)
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We never even kissed or looked into each other's eyes. Our lips just trespassed on those inner labyrinths hidden deep within our ears, filled them with the private music of wicked words, hers in many languages, mine in the off color of my only tongue, until as our tones shifted, and our consonants spun and squealed, rattled faster, hesitated, raced harder, syllables soon melting with groans, or moans finding purchase in new words, or old words, or made-up words, until we gathered up our heat and refused to release it, enjoying too much the dark language we had suddenly stumbled upon, craved to, carved to, not a communication really but a channeling of our rumored desires, hers for all I know gone to Black Forests and wolves, mine banging back to a familiar form, that great revenant mystery I still could only hear the shape of, which in spite of our separate lusts and individual cries still continued to drive us deeper into stranger tones, our mutual desire to keep gripping the burn fueled by sound.
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Mark Z. Danielewski
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I was desperate. I had to keep Annabeth alive. I imagined all the bubbles in the seaβ€”always churning, rising. I imagined them coming together, being pulled toward me. The sea obeyed. There was a flurry of white, a tickling sensation all around me, and when my vision cleared, Annabeth and I had a huge bubble of air around us. Only our legs stuck into the water. She gasped and coughed. Her whole body shuddered, but when she looked at me, I knew the spell had been broken. She started to sobβ€”I mean horrible, heartbroken sobbing. She put her head on my shoulder and I held her. Fish gathered to look at usβ€”a school of barracudas, some curious marlins. 'Scram!' I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intentions. They were about to start rumors flying around the sea about the son of Poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.
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Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2))
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CHAPTER 2: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS ALDO THE APACHE My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I'm putting together a special team, and I need me 8 soldiers. 8 Jewish-American soldiers. Now, y'all might've heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwhackin' guerrilla army, we're gonna be doin' one thing and one thing only... killin' Nazis. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains, cross 5,000 miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a fuckin' air-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin' maniac and they need to be destroyed. That's why any and every every son of a bitch we find wearin' a Nazi uniform, they're gonna die. Now, I'm the direct descendant of the mountain man Jim Bridger. That means I got a little Injun in me. And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance. We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the German won't not be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the German will be sickened by us, and the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us. And when the German closes their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us they are tortured with. Sooounds good?
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Quentin Tarantino