“Words are important to me. I listen to each one, weigh and measure it. If I cannot trust your words, how can I trust you?”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“The body might be engaged in the most base drudgery, but always the mind can be thinking on whatever is lovely, pure, noble.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“And therein lies the void between the sexes. Women want long looks and deep discussions, and men want to ride and shoot.” Captain Bryant nodded. “I know I do. Can we lay aside novels for a few hours and go shoot something?”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“Flogging will continue until morale improves.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. – Lord Chesterfield, eighteenth-century statesman”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“How foolish was the fox. How blind. To not see, not value the friendship, the affection, the trust the brown bird offered him.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“nature’s noblest gift – my grey goose-quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men! – Lord Byron”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
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“Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does not mean freedom from anxiety and depression, but only the ability to cope with these afflictions in a healthy way.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, quote from Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
“If you aren’t a living example of ‘the devil quoting scripture.’ ”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love
“Granma said when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right.”
― Forrest Carter, quote from The Education of Little Tree
“Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is 'Don't do what you will, do what I say.' The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Witches Abroad
“I learned embroidery," Kaede said, "But you can't kill anyone with a needle."
"You can," Shizuka said offhandedly. "I'll show you one day.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
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