better, adj. and adv.

Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better.


David Levithan

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THEY WILL GET BETTER AT IT,
BUT....
THEY ...
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Everyone okay?" Mal asked.

"Never better," said Genya shakily.

David raised hi...
LEIGH BARDUGO
When did you get so peppy?” she shouted.
“Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly ...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Tomorrow will be better.”
“But what if it’s not?” I asked.
“Then you say it agai...
MORGAN MATSON
it does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
But with you, well, the things you say ... You do get it, and that does make me feel ... better." Wi...
JULIA HOBAN
My life will get better? You really believe that?" I ask.
“It can. If you’re willing to do...
MATTHEW QUICK
you can take this mouth
this wound you want
but you can't kiss
and make it
bette...
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB
Technically, you don't pay me.
And technically, most of what I do is "think."

I...rr...
HOWARD TAYLER
Saying goodbye doesn't mean
You don't love him anymore,
Nor that you no longer will.
...
JOCELYN SORIANO
You better watch out.
You better not cry.
You better not pout,
I'm telling you why...
CRAIG FERGUSON
I am
Mavis Elizabeth Betterly.
I am
used to hard work.
I can
run a househol...
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 “So how’d you do it? How did you get to where you aren’t scared all the freaking time?” DANIEL ABRAHAM He's not dead, Parker." He clenched his jaw so hard she could see the muscles working in it.
MATT FORBECK
Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth
ANNE RICE
Better associations
__________________

If you associate yourself with a change maker...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Good. Drink your tea," he ordered. "It will make you feel better."

Nothing will make me f...
CONNIE WILLIS
Better Associations:

If you associate yourself with a change maker,
Your life will b...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we ...
AUDRE LORDE
When you can't win the fight, you get bigger guns."

- Episode 14, "Better Space Than Neve...
ASHLEY POSTON
As I thought
about that, I had
to wonder: What will we
know better about tomorrow? ELLEN HOPKINS
Filthy tight, the dress is filthy
I’m falling flat and my arms are empty
Clear the way, ...
P.J. HARVEY
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
—Samuel Beckett, Wors...
SAMUEL BECKETT
World peace for dinner," mused Mik, scratching his beard stubble. "Does that come with fries?"
...
LAINI TAYLOR
Dad, I'll never do any better. He's smart and funny and good-looking.."

Stephanie," he to...
STEPHANIE KLEIN
I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better."
I nodded. "Hearts are like that.
CHARLES MARTIN
You want to become a better person?
Just give thanks.
Give thanks for all of it.
KAMAND KOJOURI
She deserves better. So much better.
She deserves me.
If only she knew that.
COLLEEN HOOVER
Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER
It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is bett...
E. LOCKHART
My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.
My heart... not so much.
SIMONE ELKELES
I live for sex.

I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my...
FIONA THRUST
Why will we struggle to attain, and strive,
When all we gain is but an empty dream?--
Better,...
MADISON CAWEIN
What's the point of wandering?
to find a better place?
a home?
But the loneliness wil...
ASPER BLURRY
Amy: Up.
Rory: What good's up?
Amy: Better than down.

-Doctor Who
STEVEN MOFFAT
BLUE SWEATER

Bom Bom...
Bom Bom...
Bom Bom...

Do you hear tha...
COLLEEN HOOVER
Sometimes life gets in your way.
it gets all up in your damn way. COLLEEN HOOVER
Draco: Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man.
Harry: We're the same age, Draco.
Draco: I wear it ...
J.K. ROWLING
Twenty-two hours and our war begins

Our war of limbs

and lips COLLEEN HOOVER
Sometimes before it gets better
the darkness gets bigger.
The person that you'd take a bu...
FALL OUT BOY
Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?"

"That's stupid."

"What is? Love, or my ...
RICK YANCEY
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off;
next, the expectation that the other fel...
KARL KRAUS
We're forecasting it will get better, but we'd like to see it get better faster,
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Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation ...
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I hold it true,what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lo...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved a...
ALFRED TENNYSON
I’m here now.
Letting them out.
Freeing my words
Building better walls.
TAMARA IRELAND STONE
There will always be someone better looking; better off; smarter; richer; thinner; taller; shorter; ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
My brother doesn't know how to think of anything other than his own responsibilities."
"Perhaps...
CATHY MAXWELL
Nobody ever called me any OH MY GOD you mean that guy that one that set himself on FIRE JOSS WHEDON Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.
JOEL BURNS
It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self.
MAX HAWTHORNE
I do shodo magic,” Dali said. “I curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a p...
ILONA ANDREWS
And life definitely doesn't want me

To just let it tell <...
COLLEEN HOOVER
They tell us the only way to move on
is to forget.
“Forgive,” they say.
Realise ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
A Word is Dead

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I sa...
EMILY DICKINSON
there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
If we can get people who can get from point A to point B more conveniently, it will just be better.
CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER
None of the billion lowReds beneath Mars would be happy if they knew what the highReds knew - that t...
PIERCE BROWN
Don't put your feet on

the table, ... You know better.
BRUCE WHITE
It's too cold outside
For angels to fly
An angel will die
Covered in white
Close...
ED SHEERAN
Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?

Green glass, gobl...
HAROLD MONRO
[...} What did I tell you about wandering off? Why don't you ever do anything I say? If I didn't kno...
DEREK LANDY
The guilt you felt
when you were smiling
and others were suffering,
the guilt you ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Do you ever stop being so serious and dull?"
"Do you ever stop being such a prick?" I snapped b...
SARAH J. MAAS
Don’t pack out
______________

To some people, you make life bright
When you d...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
In Blackwater Woods

Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
in...
MARY OLIVER
Free Shoes

The pairs of shoes stand in rows,
polished and jet, like coffins...
SHARON OLDS
"Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."
(crosses stream)
"As I thought," he sai...
Tell me what I can do to help you feel better."

Well...I always like when you kiss me...<...
KRISTIN CASHORE
Pizza, pizza,
Fill up your face,
The thicker the pastry,
The better the base!
EOIN COLFER
...by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.
ANNE FRANK
in a woman's womb.
another chance.
to make the world better.
ELLEN HOPKINS
You should read something else."
Why would he have done that to him?"
I don't know," she s...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Nothing can escape death.
Not even the Sun.
Not even the Earth.
Not even the unive...
HINA YU
When you're lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep...
"I shou...
L.R. KNOST
I got an A on the third quiz in American history,
an A,
dammit.
Last time I got a ...
THALIA CHALTAS
sometimes i don't know, which moment
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
SANOBER KHAN
As the smoke clears,
I awaken,
And untangle you from me.
Would it make you feel bette...
DEMI LOVATO
I can’t think of a better way to start my day.”
“Get used to it,” he murmured, right b...
SAMANTHA CHASE
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
We can have traders, without them being traitors.

We can trade, without trading others. JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
It's hard to guard your actions and reactions.
It takes an enormous amount of self-control and...
AKIROQ BROST
...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else."

-Chris Rose, regarding l...
CHRIS ROSE
In the Desert

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squ...
STEPHEN CRANE
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!
Eleanore Roosevelt
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.

~ Dr. Burdette
SHERRILYN KENYON
Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'..
.. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends calle...
MITCH ALBOM
“The inquiring mind is never satisfied with things as they are. It is always seeking ways to make t...
HARLOW H. CURTICE
I close my eyes
and I can see a better day.
I close my eyes
and pray
JUSTIN BIEBER
MOTHERS
Measuring
Out
Their
Highest
Effo...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
It is no better if your son rapes a woman than when your daughter gets raped. It is equally painful,...
KIRTIDA GAUTAM
God has three answers to our prayers:
1. Yes
2. Not yet
3. I have something better in...
LORI LYONS
Feeling bad is not the problem.
The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.

O...
ERIC MICHA'EL LEVENTHAL
No reason for a feverish rush
For we will all arrive in the same place
At the right time...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
“So you...
JOHN GREEN
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She could undo it.
Thi...
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Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? I...
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...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
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When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to slee...
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I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her s...
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Tikkun olam.”

Exactly. Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. A...
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And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true.

Wh...
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Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it i...
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But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.
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Fuck this.
Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people c...
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She's cinematic and I'm a fucking sitcom.
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The way you're singing in your sleep
The way you look before you leap
The strange illusion...
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It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
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The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.
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It’s a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn’t really care w...
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My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as...
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All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.
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Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve a...
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I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistak...
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It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth ...
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I didn’t mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can’t erase it. I can’t ignore ...
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tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression...
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Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older...
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I will be the one to leave you.
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I'll go get the horse and buggy," you'll say. And I'll say, "But I thought we were taking the hoverc...
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It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
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contiguous, adj.

I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I kne...
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You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.
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I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
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I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
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You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,...
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There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don...
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I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blu...
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The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearran...
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I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.
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So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me."
She triangled...
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What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people...
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exacerbate, v.

I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotion...
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If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accompl...
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yearning, n. and adj.

At the core of this desire is the belief that ...
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Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
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And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that ...
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ubiquitous, adj.

When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�...
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flux, n.

The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feeling...
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breathtaking, adj.

Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour be...
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I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. ...
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libidinous, adj.

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor....
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love, n.

I'm not even going to try.
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lover, n.

Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always bei...
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Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ...
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If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which ...
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There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn'...
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You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all...
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There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about...
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Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m...
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Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.
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How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-s...
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Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold ...
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It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia...
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I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to ...
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Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person ha...
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Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you e...
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Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical ...
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My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
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The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.
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So what do you have to confess now?"
I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is th...
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My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get aw...
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