Quemoy Quotes & Sayings

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you? demands Haymitch.
I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn. — Suzanne Collins

Don't do that again! Not ever again!" I told him.
"I should say the same to you," he said. I could feel his breath, warm on my neck.
"Promise me!" I demanded.
"I ... I promise."
"I can't lose you. — Kristen Simmons

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you. — Rik Mayall

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever. — Ezra Pound

Almighty God guide us to the right destination. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with. — Frank Crowninshield

I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe - but it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but only should have, and that others had not the shades and flavors - for example, of jealousy or antiquity or shame - that I have later unconsciously chosen to give them ... — Gene Wolfe

Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost
Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream. — Craig Thompson

Often when she thought she was reading his body — Greg Egan

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. — Stephen Covey

When a workplace becomes toxic, its poison spreads beyond its walls and into the lives of its workers and their families. — Gary Chapman

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth — Thomas Hobbes

My life isn't as bad as I make out and sometimes I think it's all in my head, but I can't help it. — Melina Marchetta