Bitterns And Rails Quotes & Sayings

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans. — Herman Wouk

As I listened I felt a dull numbness, like the effect of chloroform, rather than the primal, anarchic agony you usually feel when you encounter someone you have loved now turned to dust, in some object like a little bowl, and you are required to believe that it is still the same person who once smiled at you. — Magda Szabo

I can't command you to be brave, but I can command you to hide your fears. — George R R Martin

Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himself so well in peace and war That there was no one Theseus valued more. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I'm not trying to be a pop singer. — Sharon Jones

A man is only as common as his dreams. — Harvey Smith

Wear your heart on your sleeve and be kind. And just be the way you are-what you see is what you get. — Leighton Meester

...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35) — Robert Whitaker