Donnette > Donnette's Quotes

“Something was very wrong, somewhere, and if I didn’t get away soon, I feared it would be too late: I’d have no choice but to join them.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

“Ben leaned back slightly, studying her with that same
unreadable calm. “I looked into you, you know. Not the
name you gave. The real one.”
Jane sat up slowly, her wine glass balanced loosely in
one hand. The water had gone too still, as if something
just below the surface had pressed pause.”
― D.L. Maddox, Secrets

“God has no other hands but ours”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

“I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.”
― R.D. Ronald

“In a perfect world we shouldn’t settle for a relationship that won’t let us be ourselves.”
            Is that from a book or a shrink?”
            Can we table the sarcasm?”
I’m sorry . . . I just wish it was as simple as the Kraft Mayonnaise-Miracle Whip controversy we never resolved.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

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There are some sins that can never be forgiven, for to do so would be to commit a far greater sin.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

“Heavy clouds obscured the sun and a light mist turned everything damp and gray.”
― Lo Monaco, Fallen in a Dark Uneven Way

“GRRR! I’m saying it all wrong!”
― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words

“There is no word that admits of more various significations, and has made more varied impressions on the human mind, than that of liberty.” (Montesquieu) In order to exist, liberty and justice in a society, there should be equality in this society before them and together with them. Only then can we speak of humanism. Only socially equal personalities are free. And only free and equal in rights personalities could “love each other like brothers.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“Such abilities are the true gifts of the spirit, my daughter.”
― Candace Lynn Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“On every side was the silence, pressing upon them with a tangible presence.  It affected their minds as the many atmospheres of deep water affect the body of the diver.  It crushed them with the weight of unending vastness and unalterable decree.  It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”
― Jane Austen

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“- Adevărat nu înseamnă felul cum eşti făcut, a spus Calul de Piele. E un lucru care ţi se-ntâmplă. Când cineva ţine la tine vreme-ndelungată, nu doar ca să se joace cu tine, ci fiindcă te iubeşte CU ADEVĂRAT, atunci devii şi tu Adevărat.
- Şi doare? a întrebat Iepurele.
- Uneori, a zis Calul de Piele, care nu minţea niciodată. Dar când eşti Adevărat, nu iei în seamă durerea.
- Şi se întamplă dintr-odată, ca şi cum te-ar fi întors cineva cu cheia, sau pas cu pas? a întrebat Iepurele.
- Nu se-ntâmplă dintr-odată, a spus Calul de Piele. Devii treptat. Şi durează mult. De-asta nu prea li se-ntîmplă celor care se sparg uşor, au muchii tăioase sau trebuie păstraţi cu grijă. În general, când ajungi Adevărat, nu mai ai mult păr, îţi ies ochii din găvane, te lasă încheieturile şi eşti ponosit. Dar lucrurile astea n-au nicio importanţă, fiindcă odată ce eşti Adevărat, nu mai poti să fii urât decât pentru cei care nu-nţeleg.”
― Margery Williams Bianco