Piparo Landlord Quotes & Sayings

She returned many years later. So much time had passed that the smell of musk in the room had blended in with the smell of the dust, with the dry and tiny breath of the insects. I was alone in the house, sitting in the corner, waiting. And I had learned to make out the sound of rotting wood, the flutter of the air becoming old in the closed bedrooms. That was when she came. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up. — Tim Kimmel

For sure, my sneakers gotta match my jacket. — Dexter Darden

No" in the room might signal to everyone that they should keep silent. — Sam Killermann

You don't want people who have never had to deal with adversity - you want people who have been able to deal successfully with adversity. That's what adds to society. Those are going to be the hardest-working, best people. — Linda Ronstadt

Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December. — Matt Goldman

I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people.
Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us.
I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person. — Charlaine Harris

Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you. — Thomas Pynchon

Short people, tall people, people with glasses, the bottom line is son, I'll whoop all their asses — Stone Cold Steve Austin

In Lower Pomerania is the Diamond Mountain, which is two miles and a half high, two miles and a half wide, and two miles and a half in depth; every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first second of eternity will be over. — Jacob Grimm

This takes me a couple minutes to absorb. He lets me have them. He picks up one of the computer printouts and holds it in front of me. There's a lot of numbers and squiggly lines and strange symbols that mean absolutely nothing to me. "I don't expect you to be able to read it," he says. "But would you like to guess what this is?" "That's all it would be, sir," I answer. "A guess. — Rick Yancey