Kindly Donate Quotes & Sayings

she suddenly stood straighter. "He has dismissed me as his Companion, abandoned me just as he did all the other women who loyally served his father as Companions. It is not a shameful distinction. That he has done so speaks of who he is, not what I am."
p. 766: Serilla — Robin Hobb

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. — Margaret Visser

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical. — Brandy Norwood

I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly. — Alec Guinness

that can't be good "What a persistent-"
"I know." W quickly cut in before Dilmore could finish. — Charon Lloyd-Roberts

The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as "the stripper soundtrack":
Boom chicka-boom, boom-boom chicka-boom.
When their mother stopped walking the soundtrack stopped. If she took a single step it was accompanied by Albie saying only "boom" in a voice that was weirdly sexual for a six-year-old. — Ann Patchett

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes. — Laura Dern

After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy. — Julian Barnes

The universe is in fact a multiverse. — Claudia Gray

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance. — Bel Kaufman

If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem. — Tom Tancredo

Being by such a noble lover kissed,
This one, who ne'er from me shall be divided,
Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating. — Dante Alighieri

Find love, for love in a broken world will comfort you. Hold on to hope; it will sustain you. Have faith, for in the end it will save you. — Patrick Carman

I tried hockey, but it never stuck. — Jason Bay

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change. — Vida Dutton Scudder