“It is one thing to ask questions; what do you do with the answers?”
― Teri Terry, quote from Slated
“Use the fear; feed the anger.”
― Teri Terry, quote from Slated
“Simple is hard enough. Who needs complicated?”
― Teri Terry, quote from Slated
“...to form something greater than the sum of its parts.”
― Teri Terry, quote from Slated
“I was told very sternly at the hospital to avoid boys at all costs. Mess up your levels."
"Oh, they do that!" Amy laughs. "Probably best to leave them alone for a while. The secret, though, is to start with one you're not that bothered about."
What is the point in that?”
― Teri Terry, quote from Slated
“And wait for the bus in grey drizzle, arms folded tight around myself, shivering against cold that falls from the sky and sinks deep in my bones.”
― Teri Terry, quote from Slated
“But soon I forget all they are being and doing and saying, and stare out the window.”
― Teri Terry, quote from Slated
“He finds a tissue in his pocket and holds it out. I press it against my lip. Pull it away and look at it. Bright red, though not much of it.
I've had worse.
Have I?”
― Teri Terry, quote from Slated
“A high tower, like Rapunzel's, but this has no windows, nowhere to lower my hair.”
― Teri Terry, quote from Slated
“And think about things, I do: late that night. All through school the next day, wandering to classes, unaware of my surroundings.”
― Teri Terry, quote from Slated
“No. I remember. So long as I don't think about it too much, my hands and feet take over; some memory locked into muscle that my brain has nothing to do with.
I know how to drive. And I'm better at it than he is.”
― Teri Terry, quote from Slated
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“He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple--the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.”
― Willa Cather, quote from Death Comes for the Archbishop
“Peaches and Cheese”:
The vagabond sun winks down through the trees,
While lilacs, like memories, waft on the breeze,
My friend, I was born for days such as these,
To inhale perfume,
And cut through the gloom,
And feast like a king upon peaches and cheese!
I’ll travel this wide world and go where I please,
Can’t stop my wand’ring, it’s like a disease.
My only regret as I cross the high seas:
What I leave behind,
Though I hope to find,
My own golden city of peaches and cheese!”
― Rachel Hartman, quote from Seraphina
“Perhaps there is really nothing else when everything is falling to pieces, I think, except this bit of togetherness and even that is a sweet deception, for when someone else really needs you you cannot follow him or stand by him. I have noticed that often enough in the war when I looked into the face of a dead comrade. Each one of us has his own death and must suffer it alone; no one can help him then.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Black Obelisk
“I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.”
― Melina Marchetta, quote from Froi of the Exiles
“I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.”
― George Bernard Shaw, quote from Pygmalion
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