“To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea:
“There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“Well,” said Owl, “the customary procedure in such cases is as follows.” “What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?” said Pooh. “For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“EDMUND: It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a sea gull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death!”
― Eugene O'Neill, quote from Long Day's Journey Into Night
“Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from Before I Die
“Whatever. I just won’t have Elena hurt, is all. Or the little red-headed witch.”
“Ah, yes, sweet Bonnie. I wouldn’t mind one or two like her. One for Samhain and one for the Solstice.”
Damon snorted drowsily. “There aren’t two like her; I don’t care where you look. I won’t have her hurt either.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from Nightfall
“[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, quote from A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“Yes, he scorned his family’s decadent ways, but perhaps that wasn’t so much about the money per se, but rather the wastefulness of it; the lack of energy and drive it represented, as if the Ransomes were—like that postmodern throng of the famous-for-being-famous set—some odd collection of spoiled Emperor-brats walking a red carpet without any discernible talent to clothe them. The things the Ransomes—and their once-large fortune—could have accomplished . . . they could have changed the world, or at least impacted it in positive ways.”
― Roberta Pearce, quote from A Bird Without Wings
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