Loebsack Mill Quotes & Sayings

The picture has no religion, no caste, no name,
And the best part about it is that the picture stays the same. — Adhish Mazumder

Your sister," I say evenly, "is incredibly sick. I'm sorry if that interferes with your dentist's appointment or your plan to go buy a pair of cleats. But those don't rate quite as high in the grand scheme of things right now. I'd think that since you're ten, you might be able to grow up enough to realize that the whole world doesn't always revolve around you."
Jesse looks out the window, where Kate straddles the arm of an oak tree, coaching Anna in how to climb up. "Yeah, right, she's sick," he says. "Why don't you grow up? Why don't you figure out that the world doesn't revolve around her?"
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There is a scuffle on the other side of the door, and then it swings open. Blood covers Jesse's mouth, a vampire's lipstick; bits of wire stick out like a seamstress's pins. I notice the fork he is holding, and realize this is what he used to pull off his braces.
"Now you never have to take me anywhere," he says. — Jodi Picoult

I said once that my idea of happiness is to always be with you, and it is. I'm always going to think of you as the source of everything. To me, the sun rises and sets on you. You make all things true. I am in love with you, and I cannot imagine being in love with anyone else. It would be like becoming someone else. Your name was the first word for love I ever knew. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I judged them against the country I knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery, — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another. — Dalai Lama

Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same.
"Barking spiders," she muttered softly, — Scott Westerfeld

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. — Joni Mitchell

Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.) — Anne Lamott

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups, the revolution will fail elsewhere. — David Ignatius

Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn't mad at her, but if he was she couldn't blame him.
If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry. — Rick Riordan