Madigan Library Quotes & Sayings

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently. — Cus D'Amato

No one can read two thousand books. In the four hundred years I have lived, I've not read more than half a dozen — Jorge Luis Borges

Life is loves shrine. — Debasish Mridha

If I go on talking and talking ... and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I'm not clumsy; just accident prone. — Daniel Radcliffe

She shut her eyes: the sweet word "promiscuity" came to her mind and suffused her; she enunciated silently to herself: "promiscuity of ideas." How could such contradictory attitudes follow after one another in a single head like two mistresses in the same bed? In the past that nearly infuriated her, but today it entrances her: for she knows that the contract between what Leroy used to say and what he's professing today doesn't matter in the slightest. Because one idea is as good as another. Because all statements and positions carry the same value, can rub against one another, nestle, snuggle, fondle, mingle, diddle, cuddle, couple. — Milan Kundera

Etta?" Nicholas's face floated in front of hers.
"I'm okay," she promised. "Just ... "
Hasan's face transformed, sharpening. "Who are you to be so familiar with my little niece? Remove your hands before I do."
"Familiar?" she repeated, just as Nicholas's grip tightened and he said, "Her husband."
Etta choked. — Alexandra Bracken