Almendros Arboles Quotes & Sayings

Pretty isn't good enough. — Ellen Hopkins

That plan, it appeared, was quickly coming to its conclusion. Forty-one Jubilee cycles after Adam, the covenant had been renewed through the promise given to Abraham and his "seed." Then, forty-one Jubilee cycles later, the covenant was confirmed by its fulfillment in Jesus. Zane read Paul's testimony to that fact in his epistle to the Galatians: — William Struse

He was insulting her sex but complimenting her personally. Was she supposed to simper with gratitude? — Mary Balogh

I believe religious indoctrination is child abuse. — Christopher Zzenn Loren

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around. — Denzel Washington

The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes. — Cormac McCarthy

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest. — John Ruskin

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again. — Rainbow Rowell

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help? — Marilyn Monroe

Reading together draws family closer together. — J. Hale Turner

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading. — Gene Luen Yang

A new star shines bright.
Angels herald the good news.
The Christ child is born. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room. — Janette Rallison