“I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“When something like that comes along, whether it's an accident or a savvy or a very first kiss, life takes a turn and you can't step back. All you can do is keep moving forward and remember what you've learned.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle. ”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“You can't get rid of a part that makes you you and be happy.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“I began to realize how hard it was to separate all the voices to hear the single, strong one that came just from me."
—Mibs Beaumont”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“I couldn't fathom it myself, but I guessed that happy endings came in all shapes and sizes.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“In most ways, Mibs, we Beaumonts are just like other people...We get born, and sometime later we die. And in between, we're happy and sad, we feel love and we feel fear, we eat and we sleep and we hurt like everyone else.
—Momma”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“But as I grew up, I began to understand that a savvy is just a know-how of a different sort.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“If you use too much paint, you'll not only obscure your savvy completely, but most everything else in life will become dull and uninteresting for you too. You can't get rid of part of what makes you you and be happy...So a well-scumbled savvy gives you clarity and control...You have to let your own know-how, your own unique color, shine through as a something-special others can't quite put a finger on."
—Momma”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“I'd grown used to all the voices inside of my head and knew which ones to pay attention to and which ones to ignore. The same went for all the voices outside of my head”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“Don't want to see any more...feel any more. Just let me fade away...I've seen too much...too much!”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“I was discovering that sometimes the outcome of a choice was almost as hard to predict or to control as a new savvy.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“Will looked back at me, startled, and I kept my heart muscle strong, feeling something inside me shiver like a pale green flower shoot just waking up for spring. But whatever that thing was, it was still too new to feel ready to bloom; it wanted time to set down roots. Someday soon I was going to bloom like crazy and then I'd have what I needed to keep me standing tall.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“if only my savvy worked in reverse, i thought again- and not for the last time.if only i could draw a smiling sun on the back of my hand, then everyone around me could know exactly how I felt, exactly how happy I was at that perfect moment.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“Every good country home needs a place to sit and think and watch the clouds roll by”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“He looked at me screaming and plugging my ears and at the tears dripping like the kitchen tap down my cheeks; my words finally hit him, and he listened. Fish twisted sharply from me to Will Junior as though suddenly adding two and two and getting twenty-seven, even though most people could only ever get four.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle" -Mibs”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen" -Lill”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“Sitting in the backyard that day, watching Grandma capture her radio waves,”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“...moving had been hard—hard like the pavement the first time I fell off my pink two-wheeler and my palms burned like fire from all of the hurt just under the skin.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“Perhaps Samson’s strengthening touch was just an ordinary sort of human magic, the kind of magic that exists in the honest, heartfelt concern of one person for another.”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
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“He can think now only of objects. Something alive, just one small grey bird on a branch, will break his heart.”
― Michael Ondaatje, quote from In the Skin of a Lion
“He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, quote from The Enchanted April
“Of a disposition at once unsociable and talkative, desiring to see no one, yet wishing to converse with some one, he got out of the difficulty by talking to himself.”
― Victor Hugo, quote from The Man Who Laughs
“I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.”
― Jonathan Tropper, quote from This is Where I Leave You
“Universal gravitation
What else can we understand when we understand gravity? Everyone knows the earth is round. Why is the earth round? That is easy ; it is due to gravitation. The earth can be understood to be round merely because everything attracts everything else and so it has attracted itself together as far as it can! If we go even further, the earth is not exactly a sphere because it is rotating and this brings in centrifugal effects which tend to oppose gravity near the equator. It turns out that the earth should be elliptical, and we even get the right shape forthe ellipse. We can thus deduce that the sun, the moon, and the earth should be (nearly) spheres just from the law of gravitation.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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