Puck Connolly Quotes & Sayings

What can't you bear?'

'This island,' Gabe says. He breathes a long pause between every word he says. 'That house you and Finn are in. People talking. The fish - goddamn fish. I'll smell like them for the rest of my life. The horses. Everything. I can't do it any more.'

. . . It feels like he's confessed that he's dying of a disease I've never heard of, with symptoms I can't see. — Maggie Stiefvater

When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally. — Natalie Dormer

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away. — Pierce Brosnan

Aren't you ashamed to work for these evil people, who arrest your brothers in faith for no reason than being Muslim? — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon. — James Garner

Anything that makes you happy can make you sad. — Patrick Jones

Puck Connolly," says the old man. "Don't be looking at him like that." Such a statement is too tantalizing to ignore. "Who is he?" "Lord, that's Sean Kendrick, — Maggie Stiefvater

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone. — William James

I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick."
"It's late for that, Puck. — Maggie Stiefvater

That's the one. In Puck Connolly's custody. That might be the last I see of that jacket. — Maggie Stiefvater

If you were mine Oh my what would I do to be his? He's the only man who has ever set the blood racing through my body. Yet he's so antagonizing too; he's difficult, complicated, and confusing. One minute he rebuffs me, the next he sends me fourteen thousand dollar books, then tracks me like a stalker. And for all that, I have spent the night in his hotel suite, and I feel safe. Protected. He cares enough to come and rescue me from some mistakenly perceived danger. He's not a dark knight at all but a white knight in shining, dazzling armor ... a classic romantic hero. — E.L. James

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. — Julius Charles Hare

I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it. — Liza Minnelli

I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!! — Susan Smith

I didn't say I would start a yard."
"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside your window and Puck Connolly in your bed and I'll buy from you instead of Malvern. That's your future for you. — Maggie Stiefvater

He was dead before. He knew it, didn't you see it in his eyes? My jacket."
"Your jacket?" I say, with enough force that my shaky voice makes Corr start. "How about 'my jacket, please.' "
Sean Kendrick looks at me, perplexed, and I can see he hasn't a clue of why I'm upset with him. Why I'm upset at all. I can't stop shaking, as if I've taken all of Corr's trembling and made it my own.
"That's what I said," he says after a pause.
"No, it's not."
"What did I say?"
"You said my jacket."
Sean looks a little bewildered now. "That's what I said I said. — Maggie Stiefvater

To see is to think, and to think is to see. — Richard Serra

I've loved you since we had that first long walk together, and I've never stopped loving you. I don't plan to ever stop loving you if you'll let me. — Vince O. Teves

Sean pushes up to his feet and stands there. I look at his dirty boots. Now I've offended him, I think. He says, "Other people have never been important to me, Kate Connolly. Puck Connolly." I tip my face up to look at him, finally. The blanket falls off my shoulders, and my hat, too, loosened by the wind. I can't read his expression
his narrow eyes make it difficult. I say, "And now?" Kendrick reaches to turn up the collar on his jacket. He doesn't smile, but he's not as close to frowning as usual. "Thanks for the cake. — Maggie Stiefvater

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! — Horace