Sweetbitter Book Quotes & Sayings

What are you thinking of? Dairine demanded. Let me help you
You need to stay here and let me do this, Roshaun said.
But if I can just
You can't, Roshaun said, looking at her with that infuriating, amused expression. But then that's what "Guarantor" means. If the world can't pay the price ... if the people around you can't pay the price ... you do.
The price? No! Dairine said. No! You don't even like my little planet - you said so
No, Roshaun said. Which is possibly the best of all possible reasons to do this.
He stepped out of the wizardry.
"No," Dairine whispered. "No! Roshaun!"
Roshaun vanished into the fire. — Diane Duane

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons. — Croesus

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance. — Gregory Benford

Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior. — Fanny Crosby

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures. — Salman Rushdie

The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days. — John Burroughs

I missed the country sounds on the radio. I missed the Deana Carters and the old Faith Hill songs that are more richly country and not so highly pop. So I really wanted that to be on my first album. — Jana Kramer

The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media. — Sunday Adelaja

An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I never look at my watch if I'm talking with someone. I think that's such an insulting gesture! It suggests you're trying to gauge whether you think what they're saying is worth your time. Rushing is no way to bring out what's best in people, and I'm always looking for the best. That's what's ultimately behind my determination to take my time. — Frances Hesselbein

Only a foolish man will wed her who comes easily to his bed. — Lisa M. Klein

He thought that when he had healed sufficiently, and withdrawn from the capital, he might write the magus a letter and open a correspondence on Euclid, or Thales, or the new idea from the north, that the sun and not the Earth might be the centre of the universe. — Megan Whalen Turner

Don't go to Casablanca expecting it to be like the film. In fact, if you're not too busy, and your schedule allows it, don't go to Casablanca at all. — Hugh Laurie