Chrysalids Intolerance Quotes & Sayings

Was that how he'd died, she wondered, among dreams, crushed by the only ikon in the house? — Thomas Pynchon

Aunt Nell used to say it was not decent to have violet eyes, that they were a telltale sign of bad nature, like ginger hair or a hunchback. — Deanna Raybourn

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it. — Dizzy Gillespie

Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting. — Pete Wentz

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops. — Mitch McConnell

[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better. — William J. Clinton

I prefer trying over talking. — Dillon Burroughs

We are beasts and this is our consolation. — Joyce Carol Oates

If you desire it," promised the Tin Woodman, leaning back in his tin throne and crossing his tin legs. "I haven't related my history in a long while, because everyone here knows it nearly as well as I do. But you, being a stranger, are no doubt curious to learn how I became so beautiful and prosperous, so I will recite for your benefit my strange adventures. — L. Frank Baum

Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness. — Leonard Cohen