Chateau De Fontainebleau Quotes & Sayings

They say I'm a one-horse trainer but didn't I make a good job of it? — Ginger McCain

Somehow she lost her compass. Her engine failed. Her gyroscope broke. She's ... lost. She says the road she was on isn't there any more and she doesn't know where to walk now. — Brian Doyle

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in. — Jane Seymour

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it. — George Gissing

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. — Ambrose Bierce

One day in May 1930, Celia took her twoyear-
old son for a swim at the yacht club, but it
was already the onset of the Argentine winter,
cold and windy. That night, the little boy had
a coughing fit. A doctor diagnosed him as suffering
from asthmatic bronchitis and prescribed
the normal remedies, but the attack lasted for
several days. Ernestito had developed chronic
asthma, which would afflict him for the rest of
his life and irrevocably change the course of his
parents' lives. — Jon Lee Anderson

Is life a hammer to beat me down? — Sapphire.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. — Norman Mailer

Zombies were bad enough. Zombies silently appearing out of the mist were the stuff of acid-infused nightmares. — Mark Tufo

The laugh of Doctor Prunesquallor was part of his conversation and quite alarming when heard for the first time. It appeared to be out of control as though it were a part of his voice, a top-storey of his vocal range that only came into its own when the doctor laughed. There was something about it of wind whistling through high rafters and there was a good deal of the horse's whinny, with a touch of the curlew. When giving vent to it, the doctor's mouth would be practically immobile like the door of a cabinet left ajar. Between the laughs he would speak very rapidly, which made the sudden stillness of his beautifully shaven jaws at the time of laughter all the more extraordinary. The laugh was not necessarily connected with humour at all. It was simply a part of his conversation. — Mervyn Peake

It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy. — Sara Zarr

This wasn't instinct," the man - Adam - countered. "This was guilt, Ivy." "I'm not debating this with you." "Evidence would suggest you are. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The connection between my mouth and brain are faulty, as usual, and I shout, "Exit only! It's exit only! — Helena Hunting