Staydomio Quotes & Sayings

The moral, as Mr. Drawlight explained it, was that if Mr. Norrell hoped to win friends for the cause of modern magic, he must insert a great many more French windows into his house. — Susanna Clarke

The differences were plain enough, and yet I saw that they were as nothing compared with what we had in common. As I lay in bed at night, the sky outside my window reflecting the city's dim glow, I thought about Abuelita's fierce loyalty to blood. But what really binds people as family? The way they shore themselves up with stories; the way siblings can feud bitterly but still come through for each other; how an untimely death, a child gone before a parent, shakes the very foundations; how the weaker ones, the ones with invisible wounds, are sheltered; how a constant din is medicine against loneliness; and how celebrating the same occasions year after year steels us to the changes they herald. And always food at the center of it all. — Sonia Sotomayor

The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year. — Chris Matthews

As late as 1820, families made three quarters of all goods - food, clothing, tools - for their own use. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

Date of our first anniversary, Jamie had been in the Bastille, and I ... I had been in — Diana Gabaldon

You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given. You were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more than that. They — Elizabeth Gilbert

Far more dangerous than doubt is comfort. — Joshua Jacobs

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. — Paul Anka