Quotes from Savvy

“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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“I think we must only a few of us go," Laurence said, low. "I will take a few volunteers - "

"Oh, the devil you will!" Granby exclaimed furiously. "No, this time I damned well put my foot down, Laurence. Send you off to go scrambling about in that warren with no notion where you are going, and nothing more likely than running into a dozen guards round every corner; I should like to see myself do it. I am not going back to England to tell them I sat about twiddling my thumbs whilst you got yourself cut to pieces. Temeraire, you are not to let him go, do you hear me? He is sure to be killed; I give you my word."

"If the party are sure to be killed, I am not going to let anyone go!" Temeraire said, in high alarm, and sat up sharp, quite prepared to physically hold anyone back who made an attempt to leave.

"Temeraire, this is plain exaggeration," Laurence said. "Mr. Granby, you overstate the case, and you overstep your bounds."

"Well, I don't," Granby said defiantly. "I have bit my tongue a dozen times over, because I know it is wretched hard to sit about watching and you haven't been trained up to it, but you are a captain, and you must be more careful of your neck. It isn't only your own but the Corps' affair if you snuff it, and mine too."

"If I may," Tharkay said quietly, interrupting when Laurence would have remonstrated further with Granby, "I will go; alone I am reasonably sure I can find a way to the eggs, without rousing any alarm, and then I can return and guide the rest of the party there."

"Tharkay," Laurence said, "this is no service you owe us; I would not order even a man under oath of arms to undertake it, without he were willing."

"But I am willing," Tharkay gave his faint half-smile, "and more likely to come back whole from it than anyone else here."

"At the cost of running thrice the risk, going and coming back and going again," Laurence said, "with a fresh chance of running into the guards every time through."

"So it is very dangerous, then," Temeraire said, overhearing to too much purpose, and pricking up his ruff further. "You are not to go, at all, Granby is quite right; and neither is anyone else."

"Oh, Hell," Laurence said, under his breath.

"It seems there is very little alternative to my going," Tharkay said.

"Not you either!" Temeraire contradicted, to Tharkay's startlement, and settled down as mulish as a dragon could look; and Granby had folded his arms and wore an expression very similar. Laurence had ordinarily very little inclination to profanity, but he was sorely tempted on this occasion. An appeal to Temeraire's reason might sway him to allow a party to make the attempt, if he could be persuaded to accept the risk as necessary for the gain, like a battle; but he would surely balk at seeing Laurence go, and Laurence had not the least intention of sending men on so deadly an enterprise if he were not going himself, Corps rules be damned.”
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