Tessa Violet Quotes & Sayings

I want to thank him. For showing me that life is full of love and hope and goodness, even when there's the most unbearable sadness. And those, more than money and fame and celebrity, are what make people precious. — Debbie Howells

It had to be Death. No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue. — Terry Pratchett

They'd entered a clearing. A wide, green meadow in the middle of the forest. The entire space was carpeted with bluebells. Thousands upon thousands of sweetly curving green stalks, their tips heavy with sprays of blue-violet blossoms. The sunlight shone from above and slanted through the trees, catching the blooms at different angles. The whole scene splendid.
It was magical. — Tessa Dare

Violet tried the door latch. Locked, of course. Wordlessly, she pulled a hairpin from her wind-mussed chignon and handed it to him. He stared at it. "What makes you think I know how to pick locks?" he whispered. "Just because I'm a spy?" "No. Because you were forever stealing pocket money from your father's top desk drawer." Bloody hell. She truly had been paying attention. — Tessa Dare

Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better. — Darnell Lamont Walker

As an experienced wallflower, Violet Winterbottom knew to stake her ground and guard it. She'd — Tessa Dare

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change. — Nicolas Chamfort

There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else. — Samuel Larsen

Then, between the heartbreak and the loneliness, there was love. So open and intense it stole Levana's breath away. — Marissa Meyer

The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen. — Yamada Koun

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary. — Benjamin Tucker

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be. — George Carlin

You're dead and you have to accept it. — Alice Sebold

The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes. — William James

Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension - a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3 — John Piper

His thumb caressed her cheek. His eyes held her, warm and strong. "I, Christian James, take you, Violet Mary, to be my wife. To have, to hold. To love, honor, and cherish. To amuse, to pleasure, to make smile and laugh. To dance with, at every opportunity. To respect always, and tease on occasion. To confide in, whenever need be. To treasure, protect, admire - " She couldn't help but give a nervous laugh. "I don't think these words are in the vows." "They're in my vows," he said gravely. "But in the interests of time, I shall to return to form. All that richer-poorer, sickness-health business goes without saying. And I will gladly forsake all others, so long as we both shall live." His hand slid back into her hair, grasping tight. Raw emotion roughened his voice. "I need a lifetime with you. — Tessa Dare

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives. — Ellen Pompeo

The games we have the ability to play in our minds amaze me. — Anita Moorjani