Wakehouse Reedley Quotes & Sayings

Writers, like priests, should have compassion ... and a sensitivity to pain ... — John Geddes

Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me? — Gregory Maguire

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. — Herman Wouk

Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent. — Gwyneth Paltrow

As a journalist in Providence, I was particularly drawn toward stories about women's issues: I wrote about discrimination, abortion, violence against women. I wrote about women's health, sexism in the media, cultural imagery. I even wrote about women (other women) with eating disorders. And quietly, privately, I starved myself half to death. There you have it: intellectual belief without the correlary of emotional roots; feminist power understood in the mind but not known, somehow, in the body. — Caroline Knapp

Reacher said, So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist. — Lee Child

If the Cloud Ark survived, it would survive on a water-based economy. — Neal Stephenson

That was the strange thing, that one did not know where one was going, or what one wanted, and followed blindly, suffering so much in secret, always unprepared and amazed and knowing nothing; but one thing led to another and by degrees something had formed itself out of nothing, and so one reached at last this calm, this quiet, this certainty, and it was this process that people called living. — Virginia Woolf