Sandy > Sandy's Quotes

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”
― Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“Life'll kill ya”
― Warren Zevon

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“Everybody watched. Nobody stopped them.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“In moments of crisis it helps to take the long view.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“mirthfully”
― Yvonne Georgina Puig, A Wife of Noble Character

“I will make myself count to ten before I speak to the children in anger,”
― Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread

“We are passing the Schloß Marienburg.” Field stooped and peered up at a massive walled castle. Below, the greenish-gray river was spanned by an arched stone bridge. “This is Würzberg, Inspector. Here”
― Tim Mason, The Darwin Affair

“Thomas Huxley commented that Wilberforce’s brain had at last come into contact with reality, and the result had been fatal.”
― Tim Mason, The Darwin Affair

“It’s history,” I pointed out. “I’m trying to impress upon my students that everyone has history. Just because we’re not always happy with what’s true doesn’t mean we shouldn’t know it. It’s how we learn. It’s how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Book of Lost Friends

“his name possibly handed down through generations like an heirloom—a coin or a favorite piece of jewelry—from long-dead ancestors who possessed no tokens to pass along, save for their names and their stories.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Book of Lost Friends

“It calmed him, reminded him life offered a whole bounty of good things from the simple to the amazing. You just had to take a few minutes now and then to find them.”
― Nora Roberts, Hideaway