Interlinking Of Rivers Quotes & Sayings

I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have."
He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly."
"Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing.
"City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating. — Lauren Oliver

You can see why doubting one's own craziness is
considered a good sign: It's a sort of flailing response by
the second interpreter. What's happening? the second
interpreter is saying. He tells me it's a tiger but I'm not
convinced; maybe there's something wrong with me.
Enough doubt is in there to give "reality" a toehold. — Susanna Kaysen

We are missing Michael.
But we do know we had him, and we are the world. — Maya Angelou

He who lives in the present lives in eternity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say if a boy saw pubic hair down there they'd head for the hills. — Peggy Orenstein

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. — Macklemore

I bout a bag of tortilla chips that was almost as big as me. And I bought some work clothes and a pair of Adidas that I could never imagine affording before in my life.

So far, America was very impressive. — Yeonmi Park

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course. — Terry Pratchett

Nobody ever gave away a trophy for reading books — Stephenie Meyer

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this ... only the best is good enough for a child. — Zoltan Kodaly

A stable weather is a gift, you can enjoy the pink life; a stormy weather is a gift, you can learn the real life! Both the good and the bad are gifts! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation". — Peter Heather

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity! — Herman Melville

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. — Richard Steele