Derbyshire County Quotes & Sayings

You were a city exiled from skin, your mouth a burning church. — Warsan Shire

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar. — Edward H. Harriman

I don't know Gov. Palin. I've certainly seen her, since she came on the scene, you know, running with John McCain. — Linda McMahon

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up. — Kitty Carlisle

I can't believe Sadie's going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must've really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind. — Rick Riordan

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. — Jane Austen

Mosca felt something enormous swell within the knotted stomach that she hid behind her fists. It seemed it must surge out of her like a wild, black wave, sweeping away stalls and strollers alike and biting the plaster from the walls. — Frances Hardinge

The darling wish of his sisters was then gratified; he bought an estate in a neighbouring county to Derbyshire, and Jane and Elizabeth, in addition to every other source of happiness, were within thirty miles of each other. — Jane Austen

I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. — Marilynne Robinson

He was disappointed that he'd never quite added up to as much as the results of his own calculations. The trouble was that he'd got his sums all wrong, but she didn't want to be the one to tell him that. — Nick Hornby

His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

You're a dead man," Kyle said. "Warren doesn't take kindly to people who hurt me. — Patricia Briggs

[Karen:] You need to watch more TV.
[Rylie:] My dear mother would roll over in her grave.
[Karen:] Your mother lives in Palm Beach.
[Rylie:] Potato, potahto. — Jessica Lave

I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

It's going to be okay." Baz wraps both arms around him. "It's all right, love."
Everything is starting to make sense. — Rainbow Rowell