Retaken Family Quotes & Sayings

Waldo nodded and looked at the policeman's face. Somehow the water that was dripping from the bill of his cap made him appear almost human. Nah, Waldo thought, it would take a lot more than water to wash that look off. — Donald Jeffries

The panic attacks have been a part of Zinnia's life for almost six months. They allow no pathway back to the innocent complacency with which she once made sense of the world around her. With every new attack more of her identity crumbles. Every day the panic rubs something else out that has been achieved with application, sometimes with inspiration. — Glenn Haybittle

It is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations. — Charles Francis Richter

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life. — George Whitman

The concept in all these environments seems to be that one needs to complete his healing before he is ready to do his work. — Steven Pressfield

People stared more than ever on the train. Hagrid took up two seats and sat knitting what looked like a canary-yellow circus tent. — J.K. Rowling

For a long while, I was really against Twitter. I mean, who cares if I'm in an airport or had broccoli for dinner? — Shantel VanSanten

You want me to invite him to dinner."
"I want you to invite him to dinner," she agreed.
"You know," he said, "most gay men don't have mothers who are this enthusiastic about their love lives."
"That's probably true," she said. "You're one of the lucky ones. — Matthew Haldeman-Time

The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression. — Shashi Tharoor

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked. — Robert C. Solomon

Long as me and my team in here,
There's gon' be some weed in the air! — Wiz Khalifa

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement. — John F. Carlson

I get out of the car, and I'm blasted by the stench of body odor. Cricket is beside me, and he's talking, but his words don't reach my ears.
Because it's my mother.
Smelling.
On my porch. — Stephanie Perkins