Summer Lilies > Summer's Quotes

“We’re in a cherry orchard.” Emily raises her voice. “Who’s going to cancel us? The dog?”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“The number of things I’d failed to grasp back then was as limitless as the stars in the night sky.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Fifteen will get you twenty, Mr. Haywood," he said finally, his voice neither leering nor scolding, just a helpful piece of information passed along.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Everything should stay like this,” she says. I tell her that I wish it could, even though I know she means the temperature of the lake and I mean this summer, everyone home and together. As sad as I am for the suffering of the world, I wish to keep this exact moment, Emily on the beach in my arms.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Lucky for me my brother fell in love with someone small," he said.

Love, he said. It was the single mention of that word during my relationship with Duke.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“You are without a doubt the most exceptional asset the Order possesses. I am sorry for that.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I have warned you. If something happens to you, I will personally raze the entire Order. That isn't a threat. That is a promise. Consider your survival as much a necessity to the survival of the Resistance as Potter's. If you die, I will kill every last one of them.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“She was a non-active member of the Order of the Phoenix and did not fight.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“If he's a monster, then I'm his creator. What did you think was the source of all his rage?”
― SenLinYu, Manacled