Yearling Books Quotes & Sayings

Through the doorway to choice and hope were the saddest girls I have ever met. Not because someone beat them or because someone molested them or because they were poor or pregnant or even because they put needles in their arms or pills in their mouths or weed in their lungs or alcohol down their ever-constricting throats. They were the saddest girls I have ever met because every one of them had it in her to lose a shot at a self and become her mother. — Lidia Yuknavitch

A story without an ending is an unbearable itch to the reader. — K.J. Charles

I want to know the truth to set it free. — Debasish Mridha

fellow,' said the Father of the Marshalsea, laying his hand upon his shoulder, and mildly rallying him - mildly, because of his weakness, poor dear soul; — Charles Dickens

I have always been a slow eater. I give each mouthful the attention it deserves. Chew each mouthful 30 times, they say, and you'll never be sick. I've never been sick a day in my life. — Toni Jordan

There is simply nothing of comparable value to life. — Sunday Adelaja

There's always a little decency in the worst places ... and always a little secret selfishness in the best. — Joe Hill

Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want. — Oprah Winfrey

that every hen lays an egg of a different size! What symmetry can there be on the breakfast table? At least they should sort them in dozens at the shop! — Agatha Christie