Quotes about herring
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“If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.
-An-mei”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Chance

“The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

People, Time, Past

“Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd told Maddox that she'd been glad for her solitude, bu the truth was, there were times she'd been starved for touch. Any touch.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

Life, Truth, Home, Solitude

“One last question.”
“Very well, dearling.”
“Can I trust Cadeon?”
Nïx gave her a sunny smile with
blank golden eyes. “As far as you can throw him.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Desires After Dusk

Smile, Question

“Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Life, Girl, Princess

“If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

People, Boy, Fight, Country

“Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.”

James Rollins book Ice Hunt

Source: Ice Hunt

Nature, Baby

“In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Truth, Art, Reading

“There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther away, beyond her reach.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

Hunger, Knowledge, Sense

“I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. "Faeries have no sense of humor."
"Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Sense

“That's a lovely piece," Kat said, pointing at a Louise XV armoire near the fireplace.
The man raised his eyebrows. "Did you come to steal it?"
"Darn it," Kat said with a snap of her fingers."I knew I should have brought my big purse.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

Love

“When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

Feeling, Perfection

“Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

Time, Heart

“Her name is. And she has taught me more as a mistress than[Justice] ever did! She has taught me thatis meaningless without. is honest. makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike,.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. II of X

Justice

“Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce."

She waved her hand. "Absolutely no problem. Your money is our money. My money is my money." She wrote away.

"I should make you negotiate with Phoebe.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Match Me If You Can

Money, Problem

“What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

Source: Evermore

Love, People

“Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

“There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Source: The Aleph and Other Stories

Love, Thinking, Forgetting

“I know that look.” Jack shook his head ruefully. “Doan worry; she’ll
give you your balls back as soon as she’s done getting her way.”

Kresley Cole book Dead of Winter

Source: Dead of Winter

Way

“I can't drive."
"I'm going to teach you," he'd said confidently.
At the end of the lesson, he'd declared her the most aggressive and dangerous driver he'd ever encountered.
Which meant… number one! (Sabine)”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Kiss of a Demon King

Confidence

“Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.”

Thrity Umrigar book The Space Between Us

Source: The Space Between Us

Water

“In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”

James Joyce book The Dead

Source: The Dead

“Nix: We're not leaving without her. So unless you want permanent houseguests of the destructive sort, just hand her over.”

Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other

Source: A Hunger Like No Other

“By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.”

John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Source: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Birthday, Suicide, Strong, Dead

“He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Way

“In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.”

James Frey (1969) American screenwriter and media presenter

Love, Beauty, Hope, Water

“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Heart

“She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.”

Jane Austen book Love and Freindship

Source: Love and Friendship

Time, Sincerity

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. It was the best time of her life.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Love, Life, Feeling, Laughter

“His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Love

“Miss," she gasped, and then her eyes went toWill. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the house.
"Oh, dear," said Tessa.
"I have that effect on women," Will said.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Women, Housing

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”

Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves

World, Girl, Boy, Mood

“When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Love, Kiss

“His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with her, she thought he had never looked more handsome.

Percy & Annabeth”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“a woman's place is in the kitchen… sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Drink, Wine, Cooking

“However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Stupidity

“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.”

Lynn Kurland (2000) American writer

Source: Spellweaver

Beauty, Imagination, Tree

“He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.”

Morgan Llywelyn book Lion of Ireland

Source: Lion of Ireland

Feeling

“As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.”

Richard Matheson book What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

“The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw.
Chocolate.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Study

“Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Honor's Splendour

Fate

“The door banged open, and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. 'It's not what you think,' she said. 'It was just—oh, okay, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now,?”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Lord of Misrule

Thinking

“The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Girl

“So what do you do? Really? (Kat)
Nothing. Really. It’s boring as hell. Artemis won’t allow me to bring anything here with me. No guitar. No Cartoon Network. Occasionally, I sneak a book in just to watch her wig out when she finds it. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Books, Hell

“Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Well of Ascension

Men

“I have another friend who gets what I’m really like, and I get her. She scares me. Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?”

Megan Abbott book The Fever

Source: The Fever

Time, Personality

“Red Riding Hood ran from her wolf," he told her with an edge of amusement.
"Red Riding Hood didn´t know what the hell she was missing”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Jacob's Faith

Hell, Wolf

“She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Dead, Happiness

“Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Life, Question

“Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

People, Exercises

“Sometimes… sometimes keeping alive is too tiring," she whispered, wringing her hands. Before he knew what he was doing, he pressed his lips against her brow. "Don't ever say that. Ever.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“There was no twinkle in his eyes.
"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough."
Tiger Lily blinked at him, and she didn't understand how anyone could only love a part. Her greedy heart didn't work that way.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love, Way, Understanding, Heart

“Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

Life

“Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but a little less large and brave than him. But Pine Sap was sure enough to want her to be exactly who she was.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

People, Girl

“She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnWholly

Music

“In the dictionary, next to the word stress, there is a picture of a midsize mutant stuck inside a dog crate, wondering if her destiny is to be killed or to save the world. Okay, not really. But there should be.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

World, Dogs

“My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Perfect Blood

Reality, Time

“At least the statue didn’t rumble, “DIE, UNBELIEVERS!” and zap the mortals to dust. Reyna had once dealt with a statue of the goddess Diana like that. It hadn’t been her most relaxing day.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.”

Thomas Pynchon book The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

Despair

“It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way”

Robertson Davies book Fifth Business

Source: Fifth Business

World, Way

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.”

Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist

Source: The Sense of Wonder

Beauty, Sense

“She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

Love, Hope, Hurt

“He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well…”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Feeling, Night

“With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Lowland

Source: The Lowland

Painting

“I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Love, Universe

“Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Pain, Heart

“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”

Charlie Huston Already Dead

Joe Pitt Casebooks
Source: Already Dead, Character: Joe Pitt (narration)

Love

“And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.'… Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.”

Shannon Hale Enna Burning

Source: Enna Burning

Sadness

“She became whoever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her.

Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Drink, Dependency

“but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.”

Charles Stross Saturn's Children

Source: Saturn's Children

Love, Sleep, Heart, Personality

“Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: My Fair Godmother

Guy, Heart

“I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken!
--Joanne”

C.E. Murphy (1973) American writer

Source: Urban Shaman

God, Faith

“It hurts to think of her, but I can't stop. It ought to hurt.

After all, hell is supposed to be hot.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Hell, Thinking, Hurt

“Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. “Did you know your name means ‘wisdom’? It was very well-given.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Wisdom

“The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.”

Alison Bechdel (1960) American cartoonist, author

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Sex, Personality

“You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.”

Georgette Heyer book Devil's Cub

Source: Devil's Cub

God, Thinking, Time

“Existence, after losing her, would be hell”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

Hell

“That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.”

Michael Morpurgo (1943) British children's writer

Source: Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

Dance, Sea

“Gavriel closed his eyes, sooty lashes brushing his cheek. "I'll stay with you."

"What? No," she said automatically. "No! That's crazy."

"I'm crazy," he reminded her.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Love

“Amazing how he could make her feel. Safe in a vacant lot, warm in the middle of the night. Just being this close to him, being able to touch his thoughts and feel his presence, was comforting-and dizzying.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Visions

Feeling, Night

“He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Heart

“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.”

Marilynne Robinson book Lila

Source: Lila

Learning

“It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.”

Maggie Shayne (1965) American writer

Source: Colder than Ice

Feeling, Imagination

“Relax. You're in good hands. Tabby wont hurt you.

She stabbed me!

Damn! I told her not to stab any more Hunters. I hate it when she does that.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Hate, Hurt

“Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Time

“Her glass wings are gone.”

Margaret Atwood book Lady Oracle

Source: Lady Oracle

“I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers.”

Natasha Friend (1972) American writer

Source: Lush

Idea, Sleep, Sun

“I am not doing this in front of everyone," Simon announced.
“It’s not spin the bottle, Simon,” said Clary. “It’s just food. Not that you’re food, Alec,” she added when he glared. She held her hands up. “Never mind.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Food

“You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’”
He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.”

Diane Duane Wizards at War

Source: Wizards at War

Idea

“No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Hope

“He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

“So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

World, Sun

“Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Love, Thinking

“That will be her undoing," gasped Artemis, already suffering under the weight of the flak jacket. "Artemis Fowl will never be."
"I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Last Guardian

Suffering

“Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Mourns

Hostility, Personality

“She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

Books, Thinking, Housing

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Quotes about herring
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