Delbert Kwasniewski > Delbert's Quotes

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“my feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“everybody,”
― Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

“If kisses fast could flee
By letter, then with your sweet lips
My letters read should be”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“I decided that it was the thoughts in your own mind that mattered more than anything else.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying”
― Baroness Emma Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel