Quotes by Adele

“Sanctum, a holy or sacred place. What could be more sacred than possessing the power of your own true thoughts? Sanctum. It is both lock and key.”

“In reading we must become creators.”

“There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like e...”

“Quiet, she hissed at me, her voice shockingly aggressive for such a small person. Otherwise, Ill shut you up myself.”

“I was just thinking that it would be nice if, for once in a while, life made things easier, I told him, feeling annoyed. Why does life have to throw impossible tasks at us all the time for crying o...”

“Clearly, this was another thing I needed to add to the: repetitive cycle of things that were constantly happening in my life list, which currently contained fainting and my ability to find trouble.”

“Of course they were eaten, he retorted, his eyes flashing in cold humour. Trolls generally arent exactly renowned for being vegetarians.”

“Its tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.”

“Wellits whether you want to face certain death by taking a risk on the other route or almost certain death by scaling the walls? she replied. Therefore, for me, considering our options, its a no br...”

“Man Im hot, I exclaimed, fanning myself. The combination of climbing out of the cave and the sun meant that I was perspiring like crazy. Why thank you, retorted Blaine, smirking. Im pleased that my...”

“Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said.'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said.”

“The author & the reader "know" each other: they meet on the bridge of words”

“One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous strange cry, as they flew by. I think that is what our own best pra...”

“I didn't mean that I'm a nonpareil now. But I'm different, yes. I've found out that I can do quite difficult things if I keep trying very hard, and at least I've discovered that if I don't keep mys...”

“Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not w...”

“But for anything to be alive, it required motion : the current must run, the record must turn, a person must leave or find another path. Without movement or change, the world became nothing more th...”

“What never happened will never change."(from "Oh, Leonardo")”

“If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.”

“Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat ...”

“In your language you have a form of poetry called a sonnet...It is a very strict form of poetry, is it not?...There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That's a very strict rhy...”