“Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,`I was plenty scared`makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“A good logger does not raze the forest, but only thins it.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“A man does what must be done,' Karl said, trying to concentrate on his board-making.
"But you never complain."
'What good would complaining do? A job takes so many hours of work, complaining will not shorten those hours.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men in line!”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“the wilderness. Who in his right mind would not want someone to take care of these unpalatable household tasks?”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
LaVyrle Spencer
Born place: in Browerville, Minnesota, The United States
Born date July 17, 1943
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“You don't listen do you? Go away." ..."You don't listen," he said.
Why wouldn't he just leave? I was going to burn up, anyway, with fire creeping up my arms to consume me. My eyes ached with fresh tears. I hated crying.
"But if you listened," he murmured, "I'd be dead.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from Incarnate
“I decide this day with Chase Gartner--my friend, my maybe-possibility--is the best one yet.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“Никто не в силах захватить и присвоить себе раскат грома. Никто не может отобрать небеса у другого человека. Никто не может забрать небо с собой при расставании.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, quote from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
“Wait,” Maggs said. “Nobody knows what the incubation period for this thing is, right?” Hartwig didn’t take his eyes off Kindra. “Seemed pretty fast with Ra’at.” “Yeah, but Ra’at got tagged firsthand. Maybe accidental exposure takes longer.” Kindra could hear Maggs’s voice growing more confident as he spoke, warming to his own argument. “Point is, we don’t know. So before somebody does something stupid, how about we all take a step back, strip down, and make sure nobody’s got any open cuts that could have gotten contaminated blood in them.” He looked back at Combat Master Hracken, who still had not spoken. “What do you think?”
― Joe Schreiber, quote from Red Harvest
“In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.”
― Iain M. Banks, quote from Matter
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