Jarama Valley Quotes & Sayings

The more hedonistic you were, the better ... I very much subscribed to that as a young artist. — Rufus Wainwright

You will never find peace with these fascists
You'll never find friends such as we
So remember that valley of Jarama
And the people that'll set that valley free.
From this valley they say we are going
Do not hasten to bid us adieu
Even though we lost the battle at Jarama
We'll set this valley before we're through.
All this world is like this valley called Jarama
So green and so bright and so fair
No fascists can dwell in our valley
Nor breathe in our new freedoms air. — Woody Guthrie

A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

But I'll do anything in my power to stop them from taking you away."
She took a shuddering breath, then let her eyes fall closed. "Promise?"
"Anything. As you said in Tokyo, we're meant to be together. — Scott Westerfeld

Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair — Jodi Lynn Anderson

Build your strength in love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A lawyer caught in the toils of a murder case is like a man newly fallen in love: his involvement is total. — Robert Traver

What-if-maybe crap is for weak people. It belongs to the ones who don't have the strength to make actual situations go their way, so they have to hide away in daydreams where they can play at controlling what comes next. And that makes them even weaker. Every what-if is a gift to anyone who's looking for a hold on you, and that means us. If a guy's whole head is in reality, then reality is the only route we can take to get to him. If he's letting his mind prance off down dozens of twisty hypothetical fairy tales, every one of those is a crack we can use to prize him open. Breslin — Tana French

Anne Shirley, how often have I told you never to let one of those Italians in the house! I don't believe in encouraging them to come around at all. — L.M. Montgomery

Of the insolence of the Scots, my father used to say, there is no end. — Bernard Cornwell

There is funny ha-ha, and there is funny peculiar, and beneath a trapdoor in Kevin's mind is a place where the two blur together, the place of jokes, churning so furiously frequently, when it kicks up a line, he has no idea what it will turn out to be. — Kevin Brockmeier