Verdolagas Quotes & Sayings

Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. — Neil Gaiman

Our reputations precedes us. If I know someone is not nice, not kind, an asshole - I generally don't want to work with them. — Dwayne Johnson

He was really, Lily Briscoe thought, in spite of his eyes, but then look at his nose, look at his hands, the most uncharming human being she had ever met. Then why did she mind what he said? Women can't write, women can't paint - what did that matter coming from him, since clearly it was not true to him but for some reason helpful to him, and that was why he said it? Why did her whole being bow, like corn under a wind, and erect itself again from this abasement only with a great and rather painful effort? She must make it once more. There's the sprig on the table-cloth; there's my painting; I must move the tree to the middle; that matters - nothing else. Could she not hold fast to that, she asked herself, and not lose her temper, and not argue; and if she wanted revenge take it by laughing at him? — Virginia Woolf

You must never allow something that happened to you to become a morbidly treasured heirloom that you carry, show people, put back in its black velvet pouch and then tuck back into your jacket where you can keep it close to your heart. — Augusten Burroughs

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood. — Austin O'Malley

It made her eyes fill up with tears, and she for a few more minutes starting it over, replaying it, watching his lips say the words: We can be lonely together. — Rachel Caine

If one of us had to die, it ought to be the one with poison in her heart. — Rosamund Hodge

You don't have to like something to accept it. — Lori Deschene

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest. — James Russell Lowell