Lythia Quotes & Sayings

Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have tried to set me against her from the outset, but you over-reached yourself today, my girl! How dared you write in such terms to me! How could you have been so crassly stupid as to suppose that Sophy could ever need your countenance to set her right in the eyes of the world, or that I would believe one word of slander against her? — Georgette Heyer

You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength."
"Strength," she said with a little laugh. "I gave her strength, and look what she did with it. — Laini Taylor

[T]he Christians abolished the distinction between soul and person, species and individual, and therefore placed immediately in self what belongs only to the totality of the species. — Ludwig Feuerbach

In my experience as long as he treats you right and appreciates you then no man is the wrong kind of man. — Jay Crownover

If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael

No one can say yes to God's ways who has said no to his promises and commandments. Acceptance of the will of God comes in the daily submission under his Word. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?"
"You mean other than wives?" [Glinda] — Gregory Maguire

If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure ... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure. — Elliot W. Eisner

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection. — Bill Vaughan

All tools are weapons in the hands of the wrong people. — Anna Jarzab

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child. — John Steinbeck

Boys often need us to give them more time than girls need, and they often need us to connect their feelings to objects in the outside world. — Michael Gurian