Becky Burleigh Quotes & Sayings

Because Tammy is in there making like her feet hate each other, and they don't
need us around for it. — Erin McCarthy

She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared.
She would stop the blood.
She would hold him and stop his life from escaping.
She would hold life inside him and he wouldn't die — Michael Grant

He'd experienced the lovely warm feeling of a bad job well done. — Terry Pratchett

She barely notices when I say that I am going on to Toronto to visit my grandparents. Except to remark that they must be really old. Not a word about Alister. Not even a bad word. She would not have forgotten. Just tidied up the scene and put it away in a closet with her former selves. Or maybe she really is a person who can deal recklessly with humiliation. — Alice Munro

If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical. — Andrew VanWyngarden

What says more about who you are in Christ? How loudly you say AMEN in the service or how well you treat strangers in the foyer? — Mike Yankoski

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world — Paul Gauguin

What an unreliable thing is time
when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair ... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly. — Rohinton Mistry

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back. — James G. Frazer

This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be. — Robin Hobb

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes. — Graham Greene