"But Deirdre showed no interest in the company of any man except her brother, and she would not cooperate in the slightest with Aunt Imogen's attempts to feminize her. . . . and I thought that Aunt Imogen's quest could only end in despair, for the wild delight in Deirdre's face told me that nothing …
Category: Quotes
Elizabeth Gonzalez James ~ The Bullet Swallower
"To be handsome is to live above mortals, to be forever forgiven, never held to full account because such is the eye's craving for symmetry." Antonio Sonoro
Elizabeth Gonzalez James ~ The Bullet Swallower
"It's the strangest thing. I was born in New Spain, which then became Mexico, then the Republic of Texas, and wound up in the United States, and meanwhile my house has always stood in the same place. The Texans call me Mexican and I've never even crossed the Rio Grande." Cielita
Holly Lisle ~ The Ruby Key
May we see our paths clearly, may we follow them truly, and may the roads we walk always bring us back together safely from wherever we have wandered, to wherever we dare call home.
Dracula (TV Show)
Nun: "We are under attack from the forces of darkness."Mother Superior: "Why would the forces of darkness wish to attack a convent?"Nun: "Perhaps they are sensitive to criticism."
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia ~ Gods of Jade and Shadow
The things you name do grow in power, but others that are not ever whispered claw at one's heart anyway, rip it to shreds even if a syllable does not escape the lips.
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia ~ Gods of Jade and Shadow
Words are seeds, Cassiopea. With words you embroider narratives, and the narratives breed myths, and there's power in the myth.
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia ~ Gods of Jade and Shadow
She had a knack for quiet insurrection.
Hardy, Thomas ~ Tess of the D’Urbervilles
In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot the defective can more than the entire.
Hardy, Thomas ~ Tess of the D’Urbervilles
What was comedy to them was tragedy to her, and she could hardly bear their mirth.
Hardy, Thomas ~ Tess of the D’Urbervilles
...but though to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children may be a morality good enough for divinities, it is scorned by average human nature; and it therefore does not mend the matter.
Hardy, Thomas ~ Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Describing a group of drunken people walking home: Yet however terrestrial and lumpy their appearance just now to the mean, unglamorous eye, to themselves the case was different. They followed the road with a sensation that they were soaring along in a supporting medium, possessed of original and profound thoughts, themselves and surrounding nature forming …
Clarke, Susanna ~ Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
So may a love of money make an intelligent man small-minded and ridiculous.
Card, Orson Scott ~ Ender’s Game
Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
Rae, Issa ~ The Missadventures of Awkward Black Girl
If I could go back in time and slap all the idiocay out of my mouth I would be a busy time traveler.
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