Siesta Sands Quotes & Sayings

A hilarious, honest, heartfelt look at what it means to take on a family that isn't your own ... Izzy Rose rocks it. — Maria Dahvana Headley

It is the end of a fine bronze-tinted afternoon with purple shadows and febrile scraps of cloud. — Daniel Arsand

The first couple of times she had come here, she had been sure that he changed overnight, that the shards of physiognomy that made up his whole reorganized when no one was looking. She became frightened of her commission. She wondered hysterically if it was like a task in a moral children's tale, if she was to be punished for some nebulous sin by striving to freeze in time a body in flux, forever too afraid to say anything, starting each day from the beginning all over again. — China Mieville

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind. — Victor Hugo

I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291). — Christopher Paolini

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs. — John Bercow

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind. — Julian Fellowes

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children. — Saint Francis De Sales

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives! — Deb Caletti

Destiny has ordained that from the day of my birth I should never know a whole happy day.' Datini's meticulously kept account books span almost fifty years and clearly show the transition from single- to double-entry bookkeeping. His — Jane Gleeson-White