Jack Olanterns Quotes & Sayings

You were coshed with a fireplace poker," Mrs. Seaton said, bending over him to sift through the hair above his nape. "These wounds will require careful cleaning." She wadded up his shirt and folded it to hold against the scalp wound. "Passive voice," the earl said through clenched teeth, "will not protect you, Mrs. Seaton, since you did the coshing. Jesus and the apostles, that hurts." Her hand came up to hold his forehead even as she continued to press the linen of his ruined shirt against the bleeding wound. "The bleeding is slowing down," she said, "and the wounds on your back are not as messy." "Happily for me," her patient muttered. — Grace Burrowes

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer. — Leslie Fiedler

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud. — Russell Brand

Eyes closed, she let her pain float away with the prayers, higher and higher, around the mosque's minarets, and up to the sky. She thought about the old Arabic saying that a woman has only two exits. One exit leads from my father's house to my husband's. The other leads from my husband's house to my grave. I'm not ready for the second exit yet. — Christian F. Burton

Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man. — Karl Malone

Moss has no roots. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that did not matter, seemed oblivious to things that did... — E. M. Forster

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. — Kahlil Gibran

Every morning I wake up with an unknown, unexplainable joy of life. Then I get lost in the beauty of the morning sun and all of the magnificence that surrounds me. — Debasish Mridha

I feel fashion needs me for many, many years more. — Roberto Cavalli

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason. — Donna Woolfolk Cross