“Only two bags, huh?" Helga was eighty, feisty, and the fastest knitter Elsie had ever seen. “We’ll have to work on that. It’s not a respectable stash until it has its own room.”
― Debora Geary, quote from Witches on Parole
“The point is to learn to live with roots inside yourself, instead of a thousand stupid rules to guide your day. Who are you without your rules, Elsie? Who would you find if you had the guts to just lie still and let go?”
― Debora Geary, quote from Witches on Parole
“She was going to have to add a line item in her budget for knitting supplies,”
― Debora Geary, quote from Witches on Parole
“a try. Let’s make it to the kitchen first, huh? Four-year-olds could still be distracted by cookies. Jennie looked up as they entered the kitchen. “Hello, my boys! You’re just in time.” She held out two cookies, still steaming. “Fresh out of the oven.” Aervyn bit into his and danced around like an Irish step dancer on speed. “Hot, hot, hot!” Jennie laughed. “Hasn’t anyone taught you a cookie-cooling spell yet?” “Oh.” Aervyn giggled. “I didn’t think of that.” He waved a hand”
― Debora Geary, quote from Witches on Parole
“Wrinkles are beautiful.” Ginia hit full lecture mode in three words. “They show where your face has been and the interesting life you’ve lived. You should be proud of them.”
― Debora Geary, quote from Witches on Parole
“You can't ask for what you don't know exists.”
― Debora Geary, quote from Witches on Parole
“But she’s like a whiny child or a puke-green chair—no matter how much I understand the reasons for their existence, they get on my nerves.”
― Debora Geary, quote from Witches on Parole
“Great adventures can start small.
Even as small as a sweet.
Help yourself to an adventure.”
― Carrie Hope Fletcher, quote from On the Other Side
“I was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people.”
― Ishmael Beah, quote from A Long Way Gone
“That was one of the worst things about being sick. Someone was always waiting on you, which meant disappointing people was inevitable.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, quote from The Girl In Between
“No one wanted to date a man who was only five feet three inches tall.”
― Leslie T. Chang, quote from Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
“you are not responsible for what your dad does. You need to release yourself from that burden. Just like I had to release my guilt over what happened to Conner. And you need to let people love you. You deserve love. But you need to give in order to receive, too.” She”
― Jamie Ayres, quote from 18 Things
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