Cocciante Quotes & Sayings

Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle.
"You HAD to break," she scolded it.
The ankle did not reply. — Rick Riordan

I stand over them and cock my head. 'Is this the first time you've lost at something?' No answer. I frown. 'Well, that must be embarrassing.' — Pierce Brown

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau

There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe. — Mercedes Lackey

Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, I think I missed you before I met you even. — Francesca Lia Block

Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ? — Dale Bumpers

I wanted to rewind. Go back. Tell Decker to take the long way around. Go back even further. Ask Decker to stay inside with me. I would have told him something important, and it would've mattered. Before all this, it would've mattered. — Megan Miranda

Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance. — Beverley Nichols

We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been said, the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on natures's sustaining and poetic spirit. — Henry Beston

You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don't give up, you will never end up failing! — Israelmore Ayivor

At least Madame Selena had her own building ... about sixteen inches from the edge of the highway, but still. And she had a turban. Say what you will, but it certainly added an air of mystery to her, like what, exactly, she was hiding under it. — Stacey Kade

I want to know about life! I want some real answers ... "
"Five."
"Five?!"
"I thought that was a pretty good answer! — Charles M. Schulz

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war. — Stephen Kinzer

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all. — Pat Conroy

My love is pizza shaped. Won't you have a slice? It's circular, so there's enough to go around. — Dora J. Arod