Marlfield House Quotes & Sayings

Dressed-up Cass is like a creature from another planet. One I want to colonize. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize. — Bernice Rubens

Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun. — Gregory David Roberts

I don't trust words. I trust pictures. — Gilles Peress

Now I'm really curious. Tell me." I tapped on his bare chest. "Please?"
He watched me a moment. "It's in Sanskrit. It says, 'This Is Forever.'"
My heart skipped a beat as I stared up at him. "Does it mean what I think it does? — J. Lynn

We grow our own source revenue base, we put ourselves into a stronger financial position and so this budget is unashamedly going to be about focusing on ensuring that we continue to grow our economy and create jobs. — Peter Gutwein

Antonio straightened like a shot, straddling me. He took my hands from my face and filled my vision. The eye of the storm: a place of peace and calm, and the most dangerous space to be in. The eye made you complacent and comfortable, and the next minute, while you were enjoying the cloudless sky, you'd be swept into a violent wind. — C.D. Reiss

Today, love came knocking at my window. To share with dad such a confusing, yet wonderful occasion would be great. Still, I keep this to myself. Who knows? In the future maybe dad and I can share more than silence but not until dad allows love to knock for me at the front door. — Anthony Paull

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence. — Juvenal

They weren't happy. The otters knew they weren't living in a real river. It wasn't the life that they were meant to live, or even wanted to live, but there was nothing they could do to change it. — Nicholas Sparks

To be thoroughly conversant with Man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair — Edgar Allan Poe

Connection was the thing, whether through bed, bottle, grand inquisitorial session. — Anthony Burgess

Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not. — Michael Robotham

..then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you... — Elizabeth Kostova