Crown Slipping Quotes & Sayings

On the fifth night of this solitude, she falls asleep with a candle burning and dreams herself a mermaid with a thick and golden tail, a crown of shimmering conch shells, then awakens with a start. Whether the ship hit something or something hit the ship, another change has come. The ship is dying; she can feel it slipping away. She waits beneath the blanket for icy water to greet her. But instead of the sea, it's a bear that opens the door.

A great white bear up on its hind legs steps across the threshold.

'Good morning,' he says, and reaches out a paw. — Danielle Dutton

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished ... — Carson McCullers

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong. — Willie Aames

Your fantastic anticipations make me discern all the more forcibly what a wretched, unsubstantial scheme is this, on which we have wasted a precious summer of our lives. Do you seriously imagine that any such realities as you, and many others here, have dreamed of, will ever be brought to pass? — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nationalism is a distorting mirror in which believers see their simple ethnic, religious, or territorial attributes transformed into glorious attributes and qualities. — Michael Ignatieff

You listen to the street traders any morning. They don't shout, 'Nearly-fresh oranges, only slightly squashy, reasonable value,' do they? No, they shout, 'Git chore orinjes, they're luvverly.' Good business sense." He — Terry Pratchett

Olivia lit a cigarette and said, God, if I worried about running into old boyfriends, I couldn't go anywhere! — Jeffrey Eugenides

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you — Orson Scott Card

I'm almost at the station, just passing the Crown, when I feel a hand on my arm and I wheel around, slipping off the pavement and into the road. — Paula Hawkins

I believe in public ownership, but I have never favoured the remote nationalised model of the postwar era. — Jeremy Corbyn

The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been men who spend so much time with God as to make it a notable feature in their lives. — Edward McKendree Bounds