“That's how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words . . .”
― Debbie Howells, quote from The Bones of You
“I discover, too, that grief is different to different people. Comes in many guises. In shocked silences and closed doors around our village, as people try to shut it out. That a blank face or fleeting smile can hide the worst, most private kind of agony.”
― Debbie Howells, quote from The Bones of You
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“Now look, for instance, at the way they serve dogs, cutting off their tails to make them look plucky, and shearing up their pretty little ears to a point to make them look sharp”
― Anna Sewell, quote from Black Beauty
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
― James Joyce, quote from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?”
Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Storm’s past. Metias loves me again. “Six minutes,” I whisper back to my brother. “And forty-four seconds. How do you like that?”
“That must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, you’re supposed to do it.”
― Marie Lu, quote from Legend
“She sat there majestic in her armchair, filling every inch of it. Not even a mouse could have squeezed in to sit beside her.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from The Witches
“The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer. -Sherlock Holmes”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Hound of the Baskervilles
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