The House Of Special Purpose Quotes & Sayings

It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches. — Lemony Snicket

It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of power themselves. — John Boyne

I turned to leave and was exiting the gates when I heard the sound of feet running quickly along the gravel behind me. I turned and saw Alexei, who showed no sign of slowing down, so I opened my arms and he ran into them, embracing me tightly, his arms wrapped around my neck as I lifted him off the ground.
"I wanted you to know," he said, his voice choked up as if he was trying to stop himself from crying, "I wanted you to know that you can be my brother if you like. As long as you let me be yours. — John Boyne

It's enough to make me laugh. I close the door behind me and sit down again, considering this, and truly, I find it so funny that I laugh until I cry.
And when the tears come I think aah ...
So this is what it means to be alone. — John Boyne

You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back. — Jennifer Echols

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you. — Ashleigh Brilliant

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life. — Paulo Coelho

I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again. — Willie Nelson

Of the wickedness of the world he was too forgetful. To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience: to him it was ever a surprise. — Thomas Hardy

People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy. — Paz Vega

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. — Charles Vest

Live your life the way you
Want Your kids to live theirs. — Michael B. First

The easiest way to do anything is properly. — K.J. Parker

I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show. — Brea Grant

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it. — George MacDonald

That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter. — Gish Jen