Maycock Plantation Quotes & Sayings

If she was pretty and well-mannered, a daughter could marry up; a son could not. A son needed his own prospects. — G. Willow Wilson

CHAPTER XXX RELATES WHAT OLIVER'S NEW VISITORS THOUGHT OF HIM — Charles Dickens

We can all fall," said the abbot. "But perhaps not as hard and not as fast and not as far as someone who spends his life on the ascent. — Louise Penny

She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it. — Lisa See

Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself. — Kent Beck

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts. — Daniel Tammet

- What is it about wine, Harry?
- What d'ya mean?
- What is it that cures us?
- Made to glorify the gods. And dull the idiots. — Colum McCann

To some it might've seemed callous, the way she boxed up her pain and set it aside, but I knew her well enough now to understand. She had a heart the size of France, and the lucky few whom she loved with it were loved with every square inch - but its size made it dangerous, too. If she let it feel everything, she'd be wrecked. So she had to tame it, shush it, shut it up. Float the worst pains off to an island that was quickly filling with them, where she would go to live one day. — Ransom Riggs

I hope he doesn't expect us to make a wish on the thing," I continued, as Ash scanned the surroundings, wary and alert as always. "I've learned my lesson, thanks. I'd rather go to tea with Mab than make a wish on something called the Wishing Tree in the middle of the Nevernever."
"You have no idea how relieved I am to finally hear you say that." Ash was still gazing around the clearing, looking solemn apart from the grin in his voice. — Julie Kagawa

Stay together. Don't die."
"Well, we're all bloody inspired. — James Dashner

I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself an understanding of what not to do. — Taika Waititi

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. — Patrick Stump

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin. — Graham Nash

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. — Marilynne Robinson