“... he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.”
“There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected - something amazing - could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust the universe.”
“I believe that every experience, every wrong decision, teaches us something. That’s why we shouldn’t be afraid to make mistakes.”
“We are so good at killing each other, she thought. Yet we fail so miserably at love.”
“THE GIRL WAS TWENTY-THREE POUNDS OF NO! NO, BED! NO, SLEEP! No, no, no!”
“That’s what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.”
“There’s that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected—something amazing—could happen. That’s what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.”
“I am trapped in my own snowbound valley. I am the only one who can rescue me.”
“How is he?” “He’s a royal pain, frankly. He eats three times as much as the rest of us, yet he can’t seem to get the knack of hunting. If we don’t feed him he whines. So, of course, we do feed him and then he grows another six inches and whines louder.”
“There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.”
“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and betrayed, yet still staunch, people. Oh and moorland, of course, vast tracts of brooding landscape under lowering skies, and across this heath strode brooding, lowering men intent on reaching their ancestral houses, where they were going to fling open doors and castigate orphaned yet resolute governesses. Or — preferably — the brooding, lowering men were on horseback, black horses with huge muscled haunches, glistening with sweat —”
“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”
“As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.”
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