Gertrudes Village Quotes & Sayings

A strong hand suddenly grasped my arm above the elbow. My eyes flew open in surprise. It was that hateful, arrogant man from earlier, standing a few steps below me. He looked at me with a strange expression on his face. It almost looked like ... concern. What did he want? I tried to ask him, but the walls were falling in on me again. I closed my eyes tightly. "I think you're about to faint," a low voice said. Whose voice was it? It was too nice to belong to that man. I shook my head and said weakly, "I don't faint." And then darkness rushed up while I swooped down. We met in the middle and it swallowed me whole. — Julianne Donaldson

Break your bad labels instead of living in them. — Orrin Woodward

Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene. — Umberto Eco

All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think are nonsense. You write what you write, and then either it holds up or it doesn't hold up. There are no rules or particular sensibilities. I don't believe in that at all anymore. — Jamaica Kincaid

I don't believe that the course of anyone's lifetime has ever been as unerring as that of the rising and setting sun, but I know many lives that have been just as inspiring. — Richelle E. Goodrich

She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one.
Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps. — Maggie Stiefvater

You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you. — J.K. Rowling

Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation? — Maria Semple