Derek Faye Quotes & Sayings

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. — Charles Dickens

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone. — Lev Grossman

Lo! we are diseased and dying, cried the dark hosts; we cannot write, our voting is vain; what need of education, since we must always cook and serve? And the Nation echoed and enforced this self-criticism, saying: Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men? — W.E.B. Du Bois

We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same. — Lawrence Fagg

The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion. — Neshka Robeva

That lazy servant next door was sloppy with the Tso family's nightstool and stunk up the street with their nightsoil," Mama says. "And Cook!" She allows herself a low hiss of disapproval. "Cook has served us shrimp so old that the smell has made me lose my appetite."
We don't contradict her, but the odor suffocating us comes not from spilled nightsoil or day-old shrimp but from her. Since we don't have our servants to keep the air moving in the room, the smell that rises from the blood and pus that seep through the bandages holding Mama's feet in their tiny shape clings to the back of my throat. — Lisa See

You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong. — Paul Rand

Brazil is living the last hours of Pompeii. — Antonio Ermirio De Moraes

The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive. — Darren Shan

I opened my eyes to stare at a bright blue tulle monstrosity with a skirt that would hit me at mid thigh. I'd look like the really slutty bride of Cookie Monster. — Rachel Hawkins