“You humans certainly have your hearts set on being happy, don’t you?”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
“What other lost soul has the misfortune to have you as their fairy godfather?”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
“Neat' was the highest superlative possible from Burndee and it was not a word that he often used...unless he was describing something he had done. 'Neat'--without even 'very' or 'really' attached to it--was extremely high praise from Burndee.”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
“I’m good, but I’m not that good. Unless we steal a baby—” Colin”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
“My first choice would be to give you more god children, but that would be far too cruel a thing to do—to them.”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
“It almost made him feel sorry for Colin and that was just as unthinkable an estate as marriage.”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
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“Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing teacher, gave it a B-minus. Do you know what that does to a a person to get a B-minus in Grief?”
― Joan Bauer, quote from Hope Was Here
“Sophia, with real nobility of character, then asked Papa to explain something she had read in Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia, which the Vicar, whose only personal extravagance was his purchase of books, had lately added to his library.”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from Arabella
“We have glimpsed in it the future of high society: wealth without class.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Splendor
“if it comes to a choice between being a good soldier and a good human being -- try to be a good human being".”
― Anton Myrer, quote from Once An Eagle
“What you did was enough," I said. "We didn't need a superhero. Just an adult who acted to help us when I asked.”
― Nancy Werlin, quote from The Rules of Survival
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