Pelageya Porfirovna Quotes & Sayings

She had come out of her first illness alive with new hopes, expecting so much, yet deprived of any subsistence except Dick, bringing up children she could only pretend gently to love, guided orphans. The people she liked, rebels mostly, disturbed her and were bad for her--she sought in them the vitality that had made them independent or creative or rugged, sought in vain--for their secrets were buried deep in childhood struggles they had forgotten. They were more interested in Nicole's exterior harmony and charm, the other face of her illness. She led a lonely life owning Dick who did not want to be owned. — F Scott Fitzgerald

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time. — Yoko Ono

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. — Emma Goldman

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Whoa ,zombie dude — Rick Riordan

The next day she carried her secret weapon to school in her satchel. She was tingling with excitement. She was longing to tell matilda about her plan of battle. In fact, she wanted to tell the whole class. But she finally decided to tell nobody. It was better that way, because then no one, even when put under the most severe torture, would be able to name her as a culprit. — Roald Dahl

I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right them and drag myself to the ivy. — Jay Asher

And the magisterial presence of all those words stopped her in her tracks. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness. — Ezra Taft Benson