Aldrantiss Quotes & Sayings

'You know what I thought the first time I saw you?'
'No.'
'Point of no return.' — Josh Lanyon

I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all.
And it tastes like metal between you teeth. — Jenny Downham

I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven. — Harriette Wilson

I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose. — Paula Hawkins

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways — Heraclitus

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours. — Marcus Aurelius

To live is to be other. Even feeling is impossible if one feels today what one felt yesterday, for that is not to feel, it is only to remember today what one felt yesterday, to be the living corpse of yesterday's lost life. — Fernando Pessoa

It was now that I began sensibly to feel how much more happy this life I now led was, with all its miserable circumstances, than the wicked, cursed, abominable life I led all the past part of my days; and now I changed both my sorrows and my joys; my very desires altered, my affections changed their gusts, and my delights were perfectly new from what they were at my first coming, or, indeed, for the two years past. — Daniel Defoe

I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards. — Bruce Forsyth

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again. — Ewan McGregor

For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Truth comes home to the mind so
naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more
than recall it to our memory. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

I'd say, Ceony," he said after swallowing, "had I not been present for the lessons, I'd think you'd found a way to enchant pasta." Ceony smiled. "You like it?" He nodded, scooping up another bite. "It tastes just as good as it smells. That's a sign of a well-rounded person. I should congratulate you." "On my person or my pasta?" - The Paper Magician — Charlie N. Holmberg