Red Cap Book Quotes & Sayings

Did you know that bone china had real bones in it?" Poppy said, tapping a porcelain cheek. "Her clay was made from human bones. Little-girl bones. That hair threaded through the scalp is the little girl's hair. And the body of the doll is filled with her leftover ashes. — Holly Black

As to the right of men to act anywhere according to their pleasure, without any moral tie, no such right exists. Men are never in a state of total independence of each other. It is not the condition of our nature: nor is it conceivable how any man can pursue a considerable course of action without its having some effect upon others; or, of course, without producing some degree of responsibility for his conduct. — Edmund Burke

Unless you love yourself, it's difficult to respect anyone else who holds that high an opinion of you. — Marshall Sylver

You are magnificent and unique. Love yourself and stay unique and you will beautify this world with your unique art of life. — Debasish Mridha

The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it hankers for more prestige; if you have knowledge, it hankers for more knowledge. Mind lives in the 'more.' — Rajneesh

Those who ask for help are often those who have failed to do something for themselves. — Neil Strauss

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie De Wolfe

The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves ... the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused. — Benjamin Constant

Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. — Niels Bohr

It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients. — Lorrie Fair

Maven has miscalculated. He believes enough corpses will make me come back. But I will not. — Victoria Aveyard

When one sifts place, ka-lyrra, one comes out on top of whatever currently occupies that space. Which isn't much of a problem if one also has all one's powers. But I don't. We hit a lake somewhere around the ninety-seventh hop. And, contrary to popular belief, I don't walk on water."

~Adam to Gabby — Karen Marie Moning