Hell's Half Acre Quotes & Sayings

For me, architecture is a social act, — David Adjaye

What was that shameful display?" Wilem demanded after she had gone. "What?" I asked. "What?" he mocked my tone. "Can you even pretend to be that thick? If a girl as fair as that looked at me with one eye the way she looked at you with two ... We'd have a room by now, to say it carefully. — Patrick Rothfuss

I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I saw it coming, and I did intentionally not cut it from some of the final drafts. In other words, I'm not particularly interested in encouraging readers to read certain stories that way, but I want to make sure that route's accessible should anyone be so inclined. — Roy Kesey

No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts. — Dale Carnegie

My only advice is to feel with joy, listen with your heart, be kind to all, be compassionate when needed, and love endlessly. — Debasish Mridha

respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior, — Diana Gabaldon

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore. — Vivienne Westwood

They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste. — Bill Callahan

She searched until there was only searching left. — Emma Cline