Pipernia Quotes & Sayings

When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly. — Maeve Binchy

[After the Captain of the guards went into the wagon, where Laurent dressed as Jokaste was wearing a short blue dress]
'The stories of Lady Jokaste's beauty are not exaggerated,' said the Captain, man-to-man, as they wound their way across the countryside. — C.S. Pacat

Redemption doesn't mean scrapping what's there and starting again from a clean slate but rather liberating what has come to be enslaved. And because of the analysis of evil not as materiality but as rebellion, the slavery of humans and of the world does not consist in embodiment, redemption from which would mean the death of the body and the consequent release of the soul or spirit. The slavery consists, rather, in sin, redemption from which must ultimately involve not just goodness of soul or spirit but a newly embodied life. This — N. T. Wright

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising. — Joseph Heller

A man's heart does not love like a woman's, Lorelei. Logren would lay down and die if he thought his death would save your life because you are his sister, but his tongue is not so easily guided by his brother's heart. — Jennifer Melzer

All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing. — James Gray

A cynic is a frustrated idealist. — Al Ruksenas

He's good at this stuff."
"What stuff?"
"Relationship stuff. He's a natural. It's weird, we're new and we're old. I can't get my head around it."
"He's shit at relationship stuff. He's only good at it because it's you."
"Sorry?"
"You're shit at it too, but only because it was never him. — Kristen Ashley

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance. — Anthony Wayne

I had chosen. This was my family now. Mr. Bradshaw unhooked the zip-line, and since there were raindrops on my face, no one could tell I that was crying. — Embee

Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started. — Leon Bridges