Kathleen Rooney · 287 pages
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“I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“Any day you walk down a street and find nothing new but nothing missing counts as a good day in a city you love.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“For though I was raised Protestant, my true religion is actually civility. Please note that I do not call my faith “politeness.” That’s part of it, yes, but I say civility because I believe that good manners are essential to the preservation of humanity— one’s own and others’— but only to the extent that that civility is honest and reasonable, not merely the mindless handmaiden of propriety.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“Whenever “everyone” is doing something, I seek to avoid it. But whenever someone tells me not to do something, that thing has a way of becoming the only thing that I want to do. I”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“People who command respect are never as widely known as people who command attention. For”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“My funny old brain, like those of many poets, has always done its best work sideways, seeking out tricky enjambments and surprising slant rhymes to craft lines capable of pulling their own weight.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“like an idiot pitching change into a well that nobody ever said was open for wishing.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“I was not a believer in things just changing. One had to try to change them.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs. I”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“That I was a success is not apparent now; that I would be a success was not apparent then. Within”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“Here’s some free advice: Make an honest assessment of the choices you’ve made before you look askance at somebody else’s.” I”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“The city I inhabit now is not the city that I moved to in 1926; it has become a mean-spirited action movie complete with repulsive plot twists and preposterous dialogue.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“We’ve been here all along, the world seemed to say, waiting for you. What took you so long to find us? I”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“caelum, non animum mutant, for instance—climate may change, but not character—and”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“Given that the majority of communication to which we are subjected in a day consists of advertising, if nearly all of that advertising insists on regarding us as pampered children, what does that do to us? It winds us up with a godforsaken second term of smarmy granddad President Ronald Wilson Reagan for one.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“New things pop up at the edges, but the middle’s where the money is.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“committing oneself to being fashionable was simultaneously committing oneself to being perishable. I”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“We had one of those Friday dates that turned into an entire weekend, and by the end of it, I loved him so much my larynx ached. Vulnerable love, incorrigible love. Love in which he was both the nausea and the sodium bicarbonate.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“Time only goes in that one direction.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“Maybe I’ll walk by one of my old apartments, the second one I lived in after I first came to the city from that much duller metropolis, Washington, D.C. That”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“this, they’ve never felt that, they no longer feel anything, they don’t count anymore. I think it’s small-minded. I wish there were more people over sixty here, to tell you the truth.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“The old station, the one that stood when I arrived in 1926, was a Beaux-Arts marvel of pink granite and glass and steel that evoked not just travel by rail, but also travel through time: the splendor of an ancient Roman past, plus the possibility of a future where beauty and civic function are not just valued but understood to be in harmony.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“What I wanted was that walk: slate and windy, the sky overcast but not threatening rain. I”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“A woman can never be too rich or too thin or too young, truly.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“I despise this ad, and the TV on which it plays with those flashing lights. I mourn the conversations murdered by their juvenile intrusions.”
― Kathleen Rooney, quote from Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Kathleen Rooney
Born place: Beckley, West Virginia, The United States
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“ I have come to understand that I have offended you with my honest about your power,' he said. 'I am not accustomed-' He paused and rubbed his chin. 'I mean apart from my father, there has been no one whose opinion I was required to consider. And I've never had to'-his finger traced the edge of the pearl-'pursue a woman.'
Was the emperor apologizing to me?
He took a deep breath. 'I cannot take back those words-we both know they were the truth-but I regret that I caused you hurt.' He reached across and took my hand. 'And they did not take into account the importance I place upon your role as Niaso. Eona, you are the moon balance to my sun.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eona: The Last Dragoneye
“Honestly, half the reason I like you is because you’re so...I don’t know. You like life.” He looked away from my eyes, amused as his thoughts spun, considering. “You’re fearless. Bold. Not afraid to enjoy yourself. You just go out there and do what you want. I like the whirlwind you exist in. I envy it. It’s funny, really.” He smiled. “I used to think I wanted someone exactly like me, but now I think I’d be bored to death with another version of myself. I’m surprised I don’t bore you sometimes.”
I gaped. “Are you kidding? You’re the most interesting person I know. Aside from Hugh maybe. But then, he installs breast implants and buys souls. That’s a hard combination to beat. But he’s not nearly as cute.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Succubus on Top
“Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168)”
― Geraldine Brooks, quote from March
“It was imperative that the growing discord in our family be made to appear minor. The indication that my father truly was beside himself was the way he had carried his argument with us to others. But we couldn’t give in to that—we were well trained. We knew our roles and our strategies without hesitation and without consultation. The paramount value of looking right is not something you walk away from after a single night. After such a night as we had, in fact, it is something you embrace, the broken plank you are left with after the ship has gone down.”
― Jane Smiley, quote from A Thousand Acres
“Little girls are kept away from the things that would make them strong, in the name of protection and propriety.”
― Sara Donati, quote from Into the Wilderness
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