Katie Alender > Katie's Quotes

“O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude...”
― George Eliot, O May I Join the Choir Invisible! And Other Favourite Poems

“Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.”
― George Eliot

“Mrs Draper took this as an order for her departure, and crept silently out of the room, closing the door behind her with the long protracted elaborate click which is always produced by an attempt at silence on such occasions.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“You shall be my pet, and my poppet, and my dearest little duck all the days of your life.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.”
― Barbara Pym, Excellent Women

“I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.”
― Barbara Pym, Excellent Women

“It was the ring on the left hand that people at the Old Girls' Reunion looked for. Often, in fact nearly always, it was an uninteresting ring, sometimes no more than the plain gold band or the very smallest and dimmest of diamonds. Perhaps the husband was also of this variety, but as he was not seen at this female gathering he could only be imagined, and somehow I do not think we ever imagined the husbands to be quite so uninteresting as they probably were.”
― Barbara Pym, Jane and Prudence

“The conversation did not go very well and I began telling him about the people with their trays in the great cafeteria and suggesting that it would have done us more good to go there to be put in mind of our own mortality.”
― Barbara Pym, Excellent Women

“In my high school yearbook I was voted third runner-up for “Most Casual.” I never figured out if that meant most casual in dress or in overall manner. In any case, I didn’t come in first. I guess the two ahead of me wanted it less.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“How dare you quote Star Trek to me? You don’t get to do that. I quote Star Trek to you.”
― Gretchen McNeil, I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl: A YA Contemporary Romance About Identity and Authenticity

“Every time I went over there, she was snipping at him—snip, snip, snip, like her tongue was pruning shears and she was slicing off bits for fun.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2