“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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“She fucking turns me inside out."
"Women who matter have a way of doing that." Lucas scowled. "We sound like a couple of women, talking about feelings. I think Sascha's having a bad influence on me."
"You started it.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Mine to Possess
“The water rippled when he leaned in; he studied what he saw. Against a background of blue sky, there was his face, broad of forehead and overly long, and he was surprised at the new look of age on him. To everybody else, I must look ten years beyond twenty-seven, he thought, and it made him glad. Even had begun to fear gaps and what they might mean. Wide-spanning spaces between age and its weight of language and ability had begun to feel like easy reasons for saying good-bye. He saw inside the calm reflection a gull flying low over his head, braced by clouds drifting east toward Runnelstown.
Turning back, he walked north around moss-based trees and finally found her digging wild onions growing thick next to fern. With her back to him she said, "Tired does one of two things-either builds the soul or breaks the heart. Can't decide which it is right now. All I know is I'm tired.”
― Melinda Haynes, quote from Mother of Pearl
“There are very remarkable mysteries about the fact that we’re able to do so many more things than apparently animals can do, and other questions like that, but those are mysteries I want to investigate without knowing the answer to them, and so altogether I can’t believe theses special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too connected, too local, too provincial.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
“You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise.”
― Joseph Conrad, quote from Victory
“If there is a god, how can he allow so much fucking misery and deserve my thanks for it?”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
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