A La Mala Quotes & Sayings

Cal stares at the floor, silent for a long, stoic moment. "I never thought Maven would do that to her," he mutters finally. "She probably didn't either."
Then you're both stupid, my brain screams. How many times doe one wicked boy have to betray you people before you learn? — Victoria Aveyard

One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?," she said, "I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up. — Mary Balogh

But the silence in her husband's ear was never more to be broken. — George Eliot

I was Isabella, fawning on Heathcliff. And no one wants to be Isabella. — Samantha Ellis

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe. — Samuel Beckett

Make it a point each day to score a distinctive point each day — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Your private self must become the same as your public self. — John Kuypers

When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda. — Penn Jillette

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women. — Theodora Goss

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s. — Hugh Hefner

To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the grave. — Samuel Stennett

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. — Charles Darwin

The Nixonization of Obama has started. The Hooverization comes next. — Robert Prechter

The secret of happiness is very simply this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile — Bertrand Russell