Scarlet Letter Pearl Innocence Quotes & Sayings

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed ... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars. — Anna Akhmatova

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. — Henry Fielding

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. — Benito Mussolini

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you. — Tom Watson

The way he looks at me makes me feel ... I try to search for an adjective to follow up that thought, but I can't find one. He just makes me feel. — Colleen Hoover

Johann Clement watched the blows fall. First there had been wild talk and then printed accusations and insinuations. Then came a boycott of Jewish business and professional people, then the public humiliations: beatings and beard pullings. Then came the night terror of the Brown Shirts. Then came the concentration camps. Gestapo, SS, SD, KRIPO, RSHA. Soon every family in Germany was under Nazi scrutiny, and the grip of tyranny tightened until the last croak of defiance strangled and died. — Leon Uris

When we know how to be at peace, we find that art is a wonderful way to share our peacefulness. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Much more than memoir; it's history. — Russell Banks

During those few days and nights, pain had moved into S. as if into its own house. She felt occupied. A previously unknown illness had entered her and was now eating away at her. S. could not imagine that a man's body could do such damage to a woman, that it was so powerful, so unfairly overpowering that a woman had no defence against such force. — Slavenka Drakulic

This is too complicated. What about I shoot him? If he comes back, he really likes me. — John Ringo