Lortie Quotes & Sayings

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week. — Hattie McDaniel

Ignorance is bliss, right? Well, knowledge is misery. And the truth hurts. — Mia Asher

But on every other level, Gansey was slightly confused. He felt as if he was being told a secret that he'd already been told before. He couldn't tell if this was because Cabeswater itself had possibly already whispered its truth to them on one of their walks there, or if it was merely that the weight of evidence was already so conclusive that his subconscious had accepted ownership of the secret before the parcel had been officially delivered. — Maggie Stiefvater

I hope only that you have been able to find a little gold in the ashes. — Lowell Blair

Hamid notes that the four main schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree that this verse means "that Muslims must fight non-Muslims and offer them the following choices: Convert to Islam, pay a humiliating tax called jizyah or be killed." Indeed, he adds, "A basic search of almost ALL approved interpretations for the Quran supports the same violent conclusion. The 25 leading approved Quran Interpretations (commentaries) - that are usually used by Muslims to understand the Quran - unambiguously support the violent understanding of the verse."15 — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had. cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. — Marie Lu

I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time. — Romola Garai

Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in. — Terry Pratchett

I have never had a NY resolution. While you wait each year to make a resolution you never commit to, I get it done everyday. — Behdad Sami

You cannot be dissatisfied, without virtually saying that God might order things better; you cannot say that he might order things better, without virtually demanding that he change his course of acting, and give other proofs of his infinite perfections. And thus you tempt him, tempt him even as did the Israelites in the wilderness. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past. — John Ruskin

He gave way to the fear that had come with her, the sense of the breaking of promises, the incoherence of Time. He broke. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don't you have bigger things to do? Reading, let alone re-reading, is the terrain of milquetoasts and mopey spinsters. At life's ugliest junctures the very act of opening a book can smack of cowardly escapism. Who chooses to read when there's work to be done?

Call me a coward if you will, but when the line between duty and sanity blurs, you can usually find me curled up with a battered book, reading as if my mental health depended on it. And it does, for inside the books I love I find food, respite, escape, and perspective. — Erin Blakemore