Laurelwood Quotes & Sayings

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died ... or worse. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are. — Cat Stevens

The coffee served in the coffeehouses wasn't necessarily very good coffee. Because of the way coffee was taxed in Britain (by the gallon), the practice was to brew it in large batches, store it cold in barrels, and reheat it a little at a time for serving. So coffee's appeal in Britain had less to do with being a quality beverage than with being a social lubricant. People went to coffeehouses to meet people of shared interests, gossip, read the latest journals and newspapers - a brand-new word and concept in the 1660s - and exchange information of value to their lives and business. Some took to using coffeehouses as their offices - as, most famously, at Lloyd's Coffee House on Lombard Street, which gradually evolved into Lloyd's insurance market. — Bill Bryson

I love you, Godric St. John, and now I'm breaking my word. I will not leave you. You may either come with me to Laurelwood or I'll stay here with you in your musty old house in London and drive you mad with all my talking and relatives and ... and exotic sexual positions until you break down and love me back, for I'm warning you that I'm not giving up until you love me and we're a happy family with dozens of children. — Elizabeth Hoyt

If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic. — Ed Stetzer

It was the sort of noise that makes the silence that comes after it roll forward like a warm avalanche. — Terry Pratchett

She is human and bound by the same laws of nature - gravity, in particular - as everyone else. Try as she might, she will never grow wings. — Amy Zhang

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman). — Paulo Coelho

Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going. — Penelope Trunk

Never complain, condemn, or criticize; just show them how to do better. — Debasish Mridha

My aunts were not cruel, you understand. They loved to talk, and at every available opportunity they gave away the neatly wrapped presents of their thoughts, confident that no one would refuse them. — Ann Howard Creel