Ilse Quotes & Sayings

With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end. — Luke Taylor

Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it. — L.M. Montgomery

It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market. — William J. Bernstein

A game lasts 90 minutes. And how long are 90 minutes? How long are they without society? And who bares them? — Ilse Aichinger

I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't? — L.M. Montgomery

He shook two cigarettes from a crushed paper — John Jakes

Mark had gone, passed into the care of the Keeper of the Stars, but the stars were still there. — Rachel Hore

Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm. — Eckhart Tolle

Everything one believes in begins to exist — Ilse Aichinger

May it always cost the head as long as it does not cost the heart — Ilse Aichinger

Paris?" she said hazily, and that was when Paris whirled to face the wall again, because she was barely clothed, and now that she wasn't on the verge of dying, that was a lot more embarrassing. And improper. And kind of attractive, which he was really trying not to think about right now. — Rosamund Hodge

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain. — L.M. Montgomery

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No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking at the forest. — Ilse Lehiste

I pictured love as a big hairy giant with a dead fish in his mouth. Grizzly bear claws and his heart half out of his chest cause it's too big and the lungs have to fit. He never stops walking. Over mountains. Through the desert. On top of icy lakes. Past huge cities. And he hunts and kills for you and always comes back with plenty to eat. — Adam Rapp

Reality was getting too dense. — Susanna Kaysen

There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good. — Kate Bornstein

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation. — Mem Fox

I have got acquainted with Lofty John. Ilse is a great friend of his and often goes there to watch him working in his carpenter shop. He says he has made enough ladders to get to heaven without the priest but that is just his joke. — L.M. Montgomery

The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed. — Ilse Aichinger

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. — Hunter S. Thompson

The boys like me as a pal but I don't believe anyone will ever really fall in love with me."
"Nonsense," said Emily reassuringly. "Nine out of ten men will fall in love with you."
"But it will be the tenth I'll want," persisted Ilse gloomily. — L.M. Montgomery

Simple as that," said Nina. "Did you know I'm next in line for the Fjerdan throne? They call me Princess Ilse of Engelsberg." "There is no princess of Engelsberg," said Matthias. "It's a fishing town." Nina shrugged. "If we're going to lie to ourselves, we might as well be grand about it. — Leigh Bardugo