Annett Emanuelson > Annett's Quotes

“Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“when you change what you believe, you change what you do.”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

“I was thinking what it must feel like to be a prisoner going to die; you stand there looking at the sun and the sky and the grass and the trees, and because it's the last time you're going to see them they're wonderful, full of colors you never noticed before, and bright and beautiful and terribly hard to leave behind. And then, suppose you're reprieved, and you get up the next morning and you're not dead; could you look again at the sun and the trees and the sky and think they're the same old sun and sky and trees, nothing special at all, just the same told things you've seen every day? Not changed at all, just because you don't have to give them up?”
― Shirley Jackson, The Bird's Nest

“Very well. I understand. Just ... shut up!”
― Eion Colfer

“the moon is tender”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“How many things would you attempt
If you knew you could not fail”
― Robert Frost