Booktowne Quotes & Sayings

I've owned a thousand houses that I've never built," she said. "Never had the money to build. Couldn't have used if I had had the money. Never really wanted to build maybe. But I still own the houses."
Karen Holmes in From Here To Eternity — James Jones

Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection! — Lydia Sigourney

One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was. — Kate Klise

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune. — Charles Dickens

In love and faith
I just have to believe — Kevin Brooks

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. — Gloria Steinem

It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness — Ezra Taft Benson

The Liberal Party is and always has been an amalgam between the conservative and the liberal with a small L traditions. And so from time to time people will see it emphasising one more than the other. I think it is genuinely an amalgam between the two. — Malcolm Turnbull

He's always been absolutely gorgeous and had that charm, but he was in a steady relationship until quite recently, so it's only of late that all the girls are like, 'Oh my God, oh my God'. — Joanna Page

I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to. — Suzanne Finnamore

The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate. — Frederick Lenz

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation. — Arnold Lobel

How can anyone grow up with parents and still believe that love conquers all? What teenager on the planet has parents who are still in love? — Wendy Wunder

Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello. — Jodi Picoult