Arundell Quotes & Sayings

Maddie was about to follow when a girl beside her said, "Excuse me." Her hair was red, and her cheeks were dusted with light brown freckles. She had a mouth that seemed to want to smile, but for some reason her lips were tight. "I have been standing here for two entire minutes waiting for a seat." "Oh!" said Maddie. "I'm so sorry. I think there's been some kind of misunderstanding." She leaned closer and whispered helpfully, "The seats here don't come to you. You have to walk over to them." The girl's mouth gaped as if she was insulted. Maddie nodded sympathetically. "I agree," Maddie said. "I've often thought that chairs that come to you are a hexcellent idea. — Shannon Hale

For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion. — Mark Hodder

How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them? I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it ... And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them. — John Locke

Ah! How good it feels the hand of an old friend. — Mary Engelbreit

For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate. — Shane Koyczan

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer. — Phil Klay

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way. He must believe, to the core of his soul, that he can only do what he and the other children work out for themselves. If he does not believe that, then he will never reach the peak of his abilities. — Orson Scott Card

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Jennifer Handford

Why me?" he asked the guard. The guard shoved him back into ranks. "Vy you? Vy anybody?" he said. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Thank you," he said in that deep tone that was always laced with sadness.
"For what?" I asked.
This time he reached up and pushed a strand of hair from my face. "For seeing me. Most people I meet look right through me. But when you look at me, I feel real, I feel like flesh, bone and blood. — Tess Oliver