Eves Bayou Quotes & Sayings

How she listened, the first time, to the sonorous lamentations of romantic melancholia echoing out across heaven and earth! If her childhood had been spent in the dark back-room of a shop in some town, she would now perhaps have been kindled by the lyric surgings of nature which only normally reach us as through the interpretation of a writer. — Gustave Flaubert

I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world. — Chuck Hagel

He had mistaken the two of them for one and entrusted to her this ghost of his alone. A mistake married people make. — John Updike

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk. — Tess Gerritsen

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. — Thomas E. Mann