Hualien County Quotes & Sayings

When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking.
When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised.
Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous. — Gary D. Schmidt

I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything. — Robert Brault

Never would she come first with anyone. — Virginia Woolf

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you? — C.S. Lewis

I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was
special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged
other subjects. — Eve Arnold

I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf — Gaston Leroux

The darkness is like a black canvas punctured by a blunt knife, with beams of light peeking through. — Tahereh Mafi

There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is
right here, right now
or you're someplace else. — Gay Hendricks

He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart. — Elizabeth Goudge