Fermata Club Quotes & Sayings

I made a terrible mistake marryin' Piper. It was you I said my vows to on my weddin' day - your face was in my mind. And that night 'twas you I - " "Nay!" She covered his mouth with her hand, unable to hear it, but he only held her tighter. She cried until the front of his linen shirt was damp with her tears, and when she pushed away from him he would not let her go. "There's never been another like you," he whispered. "And never will there be. — Laura Frantz

We don't have hardly anything"
"We gotta make do with what the land gives us — Ania Ahlborn

Koan ninety-seven: "Do unto otters as you would have them do unto you." Hmm. No real help there. Besides, he'd occasionally been unsure that he'd written that one down properly, although it certain had worked. He'd always left aquatic mammals well alone, and they had done the same to him. — Terry Pratchett

More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face. — Ken Kesey

There are absolutely no high-maintenance items in my house of any kind. Plants, pets or husbands. — Carolyn Porco

Falling apart is curling up into a fetal position and staying in bed for a week. What you were doing is having the emotional response an individual has to the loss of someone they love. We cry to give voice to our pain. — Anna Quindlen

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going. — Mary Leakey

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered. — Colum McCann

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life. — Hanya Yanagihara

Suicide is the night train, speeding your way to darkness. — Martin Amis

This time she was in a beat-up denim jacket and jeans worn over an old, much-laundered, open-throated white shirt. — Anonymous

Green grass breaks through snow,
Artemis pleads for my help,
I am so cool. — Rick Riordan

The figure in front threw back his hood. He had a face the sentry knew, but he gave the password anyway and said, "We found him at the sulphur lake. Says his name is Baruch. He's got an urgent message for Lord Asriel." The — Philip Pullman

Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all. — Steve Erickson

People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation. — Benjamin Graham