Quotes & Sayings About Loss In The Lovely Bones

The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger. — Isak Dinesen

Blowzy head to her shoulder and kissing the wet cheek so tenderly that Jo cried even harder. — Louisa May Alcott

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic. — Robert W. Welch Jr.

I just loved the coolness of [Sean] Connery's Bond. He just sort of oozes cool. — Henry Cavill

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words. — Richard Ayoade

His alpha powers were strong, but she was going to be the feisty, spunky heroine stereotype and get her own way this time. — Liza Street

The ones who become stars or superstars are the ones who have a head on their shoulders and know how to use it. — Julius Erving

The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply. — Diane Ackerman

Outside the hospital, a young girl who was selling small bouquets of daffodils, their green stems tied with lavender ribbons. I watched as my mother bought out the girl's whole stock. Nurse Eliot, who remembered my mother from eight years ago volunteered to help her when she saw her comng down the hall, her arms full of flowers. She rounded up extra water pitchers from a supply closet and together, she and my mother filled them with water and placed the flowers around my father's room while he slept. Nurse Eliot thought that if loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman, my mother had grown even more beautiful.
(The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold) — Alice Sebold

I think actors who take things too far are funny. — Dean Norris

To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communication of ideas. — Friedrich Frobel