Zeichner Ellman Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older," Grete suggested. "I'd say you have the gift for it."
Hen reddened, then seemed suddenly fascinated with a speck on her shoe. "Be nice to have a gift for something," she said after a moment. "But they don't let girls apprentice, now, do they?"
Grete harrumphed. "A bunch of fools, the lot who came up with that system. You lose half the world's brainpower that way. — Frances O'Roark Dowell

Every day for the last three years, she had thought she deserved to die. She still didn't want to. She wanted to live with every filthy desperate scrap of her heart — Rosamund Hodge

The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment. — Maxim Gorky

Why would I do that? Why would I put all this effort into pretending to be ... less than I am. — Caitlin Moran

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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.' — Emo Philips

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit — Charles Bukowski

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. — Rabindranath Tagore

When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me is ME. — Muhammad Ali