“Aren’t you scared of him?’ Amy asked, slumping down and trying to make herself inconspicuous. ‘He always looks so fierce. Don’t you remember that time he nearly caught us on his land? I was sure he’d give us a beating if he’d got hold of us.’ ‘Humph! My pa would have had something to say to him if he had.’ ‘That wouldn’t have been much comfort.’ ‘Yes, it would. Anyway, who’d be scared of him—sour old man like that.’ Lizzie dismissed Charlie Stewart with a wave of her hand.”
― Shayne Parkinson, quote from Sentence of Marriage
“he gets all this advice. Anyway, I don’t think Frank”
― Shayne Parkinson, quote from Sentence of Marriage
“Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves,”
― Shayne Parkinson, quote from Sentence of Marriage
“me, girl.’ He stared closely at”
― Shayne Parkinson, quote from Sentence of Marriage
“Anybody who monkeys around with gin and egg white deserves what he gets.”
― Walker Percy, quote from Love in the Ruins
“Wolves are brotherly," he said. "They love each other, and if you learn to speak to them, they will love you too.”
― Jean Craighead George, quote from Julie of the Wolves
“losers, even if they do not have a brain,have a heart.”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition
“And why does every deliberately cruel person seem to consider themselves the perfect example of necessary bluntness? As if you're supposed to thank them for mowing over your heart with their special brand of honesty.”
― Mia Sheridan, quote from Leo
“Halley believed that a kiss was the beginning of a story, the story, good or bad, short or long, of an us, and once begun, you had to follow it through to the end.”
― Paul Murray, quote from Skippy Dies
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