“Such a sensitive dog. Or maybe he just needs to go outside for other reasons.”
― Sarah Mlynowski, quote from Bad Hair Day
“I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves —” “I’m going to”
― Sarah Mlynowski, quote from Bad Hair Day
“She named her horse Basil? That’s the worst name for a horse I ever heard.”
― Sarah Mlynowski, quote from Bad Hair Day
“Let’s call the prince —” “Ruff, ruff!” “Pickles!” Jonah cries gleefully. My brother is so weird.”
― Sarah Mlynowski, quote from Bad Hair Day
“the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from Till We Have Faces
“The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road! “‘God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’” whispered Anne softly. ”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set
“...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who would make a purchase without consulting _Consumer Reports_.”
― Anne Tyler, quote from The Accidental Tourist
“I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue.”
― Henry James, quote from The Turn of the Screw
“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Dispossessed
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