“I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life.”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“Would it help if I performed an interpretive dance while I said the words?”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“all the teachers at this school attack their students? Or are you just a raving bitch?”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“Ferrin looked at her like she had two heads. “You don’t want to marry my son?” “Hell. No.” He resumed his seat. “That’s the first sensible thing I’ve heard you say.”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“Jaxon gave me a compliment. I was sure there’d be winged pigs up there somewhere.”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“Nothing relieves stress like setting things on fire.”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“Did her dragon nature make her more violent? She’d never fantasized death for anyone before. Then again, she’d never met someone like Ferrin.”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“The truth is the light and the light is the truth.”
― Ralph Ellison, quote from Invisible Man
“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
― Walt Whitman, quote from Leaves of Grass
“And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.”
― James Herriot, quote from All Creatures Great and Small
“You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.”
― Cornelia Funke, quote from Inkheart
“One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.”
― Diane Setterfield, quote from The Thirteenth Tale
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