Jonathan Living Seagull Quotes & Sayings

We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him. But — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city? — Brandon Sanderson

Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense. — Julian Barnes

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue. — Hilarie Burton

We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is - without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom - of just being - living as our authentic self. We are our true nature. We are one and whole. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

His features, shaping into something resembling dumbfounded astonishment, were cast in a warm glow from a shaded nearby lamp.
He looked earnestly surprised and a little boyish. Smash, smash, smash.
His mesmerizing eyes narrowed as they looked over my now completely covered form, the only skin showing was that of my face and hands. If I'd been thinking clearly and sober I might have felt ridiculous; instead, as I was most definitely not thinking clearly and was most definitely not sober, I was cursing myself for leaving my gloves in Chicago and I was looking for my glasses.
He shifted on his feet, stuffed his hands in his pockets, and studied me with open and growing amusement; Are you going somewhere? — Penny Reid

I may never fly - in the bird sort of way. But I do have wings. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies. — Frances Hardinge

One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65] — Anne Lamott

Neverland!" CHAPTER SEVENTEEN — Chris Colfer

A creature cloistered now by deliberate choice and still in the throes of enforced apprenticeship to, rather than voluntary or even acquiescent participation in, breathing — William Faulkner