617 quotes found
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
“A good friend is a balm for the heart.”
“That weekend my people brought home a big eared gray scrawny kit.He was so loud and annoying that I did not like him one bit.”
“But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I liked hanging out with him and was sad when he moved away after only a ...”
“When many voices are speaking at once, listen to the one most quiet and gentle. Thats the one worth listening to. ~ Miranda* ~”
“I will never not be poor, so what does it matter if I don't pay a thing and a half this week instead of just one thing? It's not like the sacrifice will result in improved circumstances; the thing ...”
“Philosopher Jean Baudrillard made a similar observation about the use of material goods as symbols of immaterial values. He noted that any given material object has two kinds of value: it has use v...”
“Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.”
“Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of...”
“Step back in perspective, open your heart and welcome transition into a new phase of life.”
“if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.”
“She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even the glint of blue-green where the sun struck just so.”
“Someday my prince will come, she lamented softly, too fast.”
“I I cant. I wish I were a little bolder.What for? the Hatter asked. Being a small rock wouldnt be much fun.”
“Squeezing her eyes shut, hating every moment, the put a single finger in and moved it around.Theres nothing, she lamented.Go deeper.Alice did.Deeper.Theres nothing, she yelled, pulling out her hand...”
“Ive learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now Im alone and Ive never been so content.”
“Forgive me again. He lifts the carafe and refreshes his goblet. What happened to those two children who laughed at dandelion fuzz? he says softly. Are they gone forever, do you think?”
“What are you dreams, Twylla?I I have none. I have all I want.I dont believe that. You must have some dreams everyone does. I wantI want to be happy, I say, realizing at once that its a stupid thi...”
“Were to be married. Does it matter if I permit it?To me it does, yes, says Merek. And I imagine you, like me, appreciate the illusion of having a choice, even when illusion is all it is.”
“But I want you, he smiles at me. Not just to make me a king. Ive always wanted you. Despite it all, you are still the bride I would choose. I do choose you.”
