Straitjacketed Stories Quotes & Sayings

If God wanted her to guard her heart, then that meant He wanted her to be careful. — Karen Kingsbury

Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works."
"It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven. — Garth Nix

Two girls who'd once shared tea and gossip were now bound together by death. — Susan Dennard

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers. — William Ames

I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It's been an incredible thing. — Donald Verrilli Jr.

The proof of a man is the danger test, It shows him up at his worst, or his best. — Edgar Guest

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable. — Lupita Nyong'o

He'd discovered that he liked houses. Maybe mostly because they were understandable. They could be calculated and drawn on paper. They did not leak if they were made water tight, they did not collapse if they were properly supported. Houses were fair, they gave you what you deserved. Which, unfortunately, was more than one could say about people. — Fredrik Backman

Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that. — Vanessa Lachey

The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market. — Carol Loomis

Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!" - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness! — Swami Vivekananda

Since she had had to lead this shut-in invalid life she had found illness involved suffering almost as much from the tyranny of painful thoughts as from physical pain — Elizabeth Goudge