Jane Eyre Literary Devices Quotes & Sayings

In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country in the history of the world. In 2009 alone there were 1.6 million drug-related arrests in the U.S. 1.3 million of these were for possession of drugs alone. Over half were related to marijuana. The forty-year war on drugs has cost $2.5 trillion. — Sam Branson

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The Earth is moving right now. — Metta World Peace

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head. — Luke Bryan

My Country
I don't have any caps left made back home
Nor any shoes that trod your roads
I've worn out your last shirt quite long ago
It was of Sile cloth
Now you only remain in the whiteness of my hair
Intact in my heart
Now you only remain in the whiteness of my hair
In the lines of my forehead
My country
-Nazim Hikmet — Fatima Bhutto

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go. — Amy Winehouse

No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God. — Plato

To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone. — John C. Maxwell

I want to court your son." "What does that mean?" she asked. "It means I want to provide for him to prove my worth," Joe said. "And then, once he agrees to be mine, I'll mount him and then bite him and everyone will see that we belong to each other." I — T.J. Klune

Oh, I suppose they're not exactly gone, those green boys. It's rather like a sapling turning into a tree. Can't scrape off the bark, and whittle it down until you find that sapling again, now can you? No, of course not. The sapling becomes an oak. Forever changed. The realities of that war will remain inside us through heaven or hell. Best try and face it, Ty. Running from it won't help. You'll never turn back into the innocent sapling you once were." Robert lifted his glass and grinned. "My friend, we've become a pair of gnarled old trees. — Kathleen Baldwin

We need people to whom we can talk and who will understand without invalidating our feelings by saying the following: You shouldn't feel that way. It's not that bad. You're overreacting. Don't be so sensitive. Where's your faith? Instead, they say, I understand. That really sounds sad. What a terrible feeling! Oh, I'm sorry you went through that. — Henry Cloud

Lord, we don't need another mountain. — Jackie DeShannon

if you give, you begin to live. — Dave Matthews Band

You're not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you. — Abby McDonald