“Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.”
“She wore her determination like war paint.”
“subject for discussion. What terrible messes we get ourselves into when we are silly enough to fall in love,”
“Very slowly Elizabeth leaned forward until her forehead rested on his shoulder, shuddering with pleasure and relief at the feel of him, at his smell.”
“Little girls are kept away from the things that would make them strong, in the name of protection and propriety.”
“The thrill of telling her true feelings without considering good manners or the propriety of what she had to say was intoxicating.”
“She clasps her hands behind my neck.
“It’s your turn to take what you need, baby.”
So I do. Because she lets me. Because I love her. Because she loves me back.”
“Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.”
“We wanted you to have a feel for the size of your habitat, in case you needed that to be more comfortable with the design process.”
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
“You have incredible potential. At your birth, you were loaded with everything you need to make an impact on the world.”
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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