Nomadland Quotes & Sayings

Gabriel came out a moment later, while Kaitlyn was still standing motionless by the stairs. He was shrugging into his T-shirt. He looked particularly handsome in a just-roused, early morning way. His hair was very wavy, as if someone had run fingers through it to release the curl, his eyes were hooded and lazy and there was a faint smile of satisfaction on his lips.
Kaitlyn discovered that she wanted to kill him. The image that came to her mind was of hitting him with a rolling pin, but not in an amusing, comic-book sort of way. — L.J.Smith

Julia's unhappy relationship with the Inland Revenue was due to her omission, during four years of modestly successful practice at the Bar, to pay any income tax. The truth is, I think, that she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life. — Sarah Caudwell

It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness. — Gretchen Rubin

We just make music. For I never stop working. — Dennis Brown

Let's stay!" Ivy shouted.
"Oh no you don't," I said, grabbing her arm. "You called me to come get you."
"I changed my mind." She pouted.
"Too bad," I said and started pulling her away. She dug in her heels.
I sighed. "I have cookies in the car," I lied.
Her face brightened.
Drunk girls were idiots. — Cambria Hebert

Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object. — Margaret Kennedy

Andrew Carnegie noted in 1891, "The parent who leaves his son enormous wealth generally deadens the talents and energies of the son and tempts him to lead a less useful and less worthy life than he otherwise would. — Leonard E. Burman

Being optimistic is the worst attitude in the world to have. — Tijan

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest. — John Milton

This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life. — PJ Harvey

I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if this were something that set Jefferson apart from all mankind. — Annette Gordon-Reed

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think. — Matt Tong

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying. — Mercedes Lackey