Jonnie And Brookie Quotes & Sayings

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842] — Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can't claim to care about the welfare of children if you're shaming other parents for the choices they're making. — Brene Brown

The cotton was open and spilling into the fields; the very air smelled of it. In field after field as he passed along the pickers, arrested in stooping attitudes, seemed fixed amid the constant surf of bursting bolls like piles in surf, the long, partly-filled sacks streaming away behind them like rigid frozen flags. The air was hot, vivid and breathless
a final fierce concentration of the doomed and dying summer. — William Faulkner

The best way I know to define privilege is the ongoing benefits of past successful exercises of power. — Andy Crouch

A choice made having devastating consequences for another is really not a choice. It is an act. — Beem Weeks

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. — Donna Tartt

People's eyes are finally open, money's as worthless as it always really was. Used to amaze me when I was little how everybody passed around pieces of paper that they all agreed to pretend meant the same thing when everybody knew it didn't mean anything. It was the first adult conspiracy I became aware of. Made me think maybe no adults should ever be the boss of me. I'm the smartest person I know. — Karen Marie Moning

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year. — Natalie Imbruglia