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Quotes About Excitement

You want to play? Ellis yelled. All right, then! I played a lot of video games as a kid, bitches! There! Oliver yelled. That way! Toward Boulevard Périphérique. There! There! The car swerved abruptly to the right. Ginny heard Keith swear for a solid ten seconds.
~ Maureen Johnson
I dumped out the bag and found what had been inside was a bunched-up police uniform, complete with the vest. Where did you get this? Boo asked. It's Callum's, he said. What's he wearing? At the moment, not much of anything. Put it on. I noticed Book perk up a bit at this piece of information.
~ Maureen Johnson
Nate, she is back - what are you doing? Janelle said. She's back! Janelle bounced on the balls of her feet a bit. I'm hugging you with my mind, he replied. I'm awkwardly accepting your hug in my mind, Stevie said.
~ Maureen Johnson
I love Ginny's expedition!
~ Maureen Johnson
Don-Keun was a new man. The moment they arrived, he vanished for a second. We heard muffled ecstatic screaming coming from somewhere in the back of the Waffle House kitchen, then he reappeared, his face shining with the kind of radiance usually associated with religious epiphany.
~ Maureen Johnson
Stevie packed like someone who just heard that reports of the monster were true, and it was headed toward the city.
~ Maureen Johnson
Campers screamed when they swam and played and sometimes simply for the sake of screaming.
~ Maureen Johnson
It's David!" Ellie said, throwing up her arms and breaking Stevie's concentration on Hayes and his orbit. "David, David, David!" As David David David came into the yurt
~ Maureen Johnson
There I was, creeping down the sweet garbage alley to break into the restaurant….
~ Maureen Johnson
Janelle did a tiny squee. It was an actual squee, a real one.
~ Maureen Johnson
But where excitement tends to take you up, into the higher, brighter levels of feeling, anxiety pulls you down, making you feel like you have to grip the earth to keep from sliding off as it turns.
~ Maureen Johnson
What Columbus felt when he landed in America, what the astronauts felt when they landed on the moon, is what a child feels when he discovers the earth, between the ages of two and seven.
~ Ayn Rand
No matter what night preceded it, she had never known a morning when she did not feel the rose of a quiet excitement that became a tightening energy on her body and a hunger for action in her mind - because this was the beginning of a day and it was a day of HER life.
~ Ayn Rand
with the gay exuberance that made him irresistible at times
~ Ayn Rand
Noticia es lo que excite más al mayor número de gente. Lo que les va a impresionar y dejar atontados. Cuanto más atontados, mejor, siempre que haya suficientes»
~ Ayn Rand
this sense of eagerness, of hope and of secret excitement. It was as if normal existence were a photograph of shapeless things in badly printed colors, but this was a sketch done in a few sharp strokes that made things seem clean, important—and worth doing.
~ Ayn Rand
It was one of those rare nights when I was kept awake not by my nightmares and anxieties but by something exciting and exhilarating. Most nights I lay awake waiting for some unexpected disaster…I think I somehow felt that as long as I was conscious, nothing bad could happen…
~ Azar Nafisi
The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
the instant her foot touched the driveway, like
~ Barbara Davis
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don't rule it out.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Then comes the day where Turp is waiting by my locker like a big red balloon fixing to pop.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don't rule it out.
~ Barbara Kingsolver