Uprooted Naomi Novik Quotes & Sayings

You've been inexpressibly lucky," he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing — Naomi Novik

I lived willy-nilly. Without any sense of being part of the order of things. I lived by fragments, pieces, scraps, in the moment, at random, from incident to incident, as if buffeted by ebb and flow. Oftentimes I had the impression that someone had torn the majority of pages out of the book of my life, because they were empty, or because they belonged not to me but to someone else's life. — Wieslaw Mysliwski

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation. — Ruth Ozeki

Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers. — Robin Morgan

A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences ... " Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand's chest. "That is a dangerous man. — Joe Abercrombie

ALEXAS
Gracious Queen, even Herod of Judea wouldn't dare look at you unless you were in a good mood. — William Shakespeare

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life. — Jessica Lange

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s. — Evangeline Lilly

In my old age, it's kind of funny - at night, what I like to do is watch TV when I go to sleep. And what I really like is to put on a Gene Autry film, because he sings really well. So he sings me to sleep. — Phil Everly

Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings. — Garry Wills

I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to? — Naomi Novik

Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage. — Edmund Phelps