“Bad boys needed love too. Her boys weren't dangerous- just naughty. But naughty could be very, very fun.”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“Everything has beauty," she said, "but not everyone sees it." Her stomach hurt, her eyes burned. "I saw you, Hatter." Her words whispered through the night. "I saw you." She walked away.”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“He looked like an angel.
But only the fallen would make her feel the sudden violent lust rushing through her veins.”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“Of course that stupid fat cow- oh what was her face, the one who worked with Cinderella- thought she was the best. But honestly, what was her claim to fame? Turning a pumpkin into a coach? Or, how about making mice footmen? Preposterous. She was a disgrace to all the fairy godmothers out there with her ridiculous bippity-boppity-booing.”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“Wonderland was wonderful, but without a counterbalance, it could turn it's inhabitants completely insane. ”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“He means none of what he says and only half of what he doesn’t.”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“So the Wolf had killed a time or two. Big deal. He was a wolf! What did they expect? That he’d lick his balls all day and howl at the moon?”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“Hatter was dressed in his outlandish clothes again and her heart beamed with pride. “You know,” she said, “you’re all sorts of perfect.” He smiled, but she saw pleasure in his eyes.”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“Bad boys needed love too. Her boys weren’t dangerous— just naughty. But naughty could be very, very fun.”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“Cinderella- thought she was the best. But honestly, what was her claim to fame? Turning a pumpkin into a coach? Or, how about making mice footmen? Preposterous. She was a disgrace to all the fairy godmothers out there with her ridiculous bippity-boppity-booing.”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“To vilify a man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness,”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?”
― Bill Bryson, quote from A Short History of Nearly Everything
“He began by talking about daughters and how special they are. How they are different from little boys and need special protection. He told them of his own daughter and the special bond that exists between father and daughter, a bond that could not be explained and should not be tampered with.”
― John Grisham, quote from A Time to Kill
“I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.”
― Charles Frazier, quote from Cold Mountain
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story.”
― Jane Austen, quote from The Complete Novels
“He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting “it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.”
His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made with the answers I had given; then taking me into his hands, and stroking me gently, delivered himself in these words, which I shall never forget, nor the manner he spoke them in: “My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them. I observe among you some lines of an institution, which, in its original, might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions. It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are ennobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom. As for yourself,” continued the king, “who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”
― Jonathan Swift, quote from Gulliver's Travels
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