Quotes about herring
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“I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.”

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author

Source: The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli - Original Version

“God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful…”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Love, God

“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

Life, Age, Literature, Reading

“She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Life, Dreams, Hope, Way

“For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: The Shoemaker's Wife

Love, Dreams, Star

“She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected…. One was a wad of cash… she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Money, Moms

“Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Kiss

Dance

“I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Box

“What's wrong, little sis? You look upset."
She could barely catch her breath. "Cracked… my… nail polish slapping your… worthless face. See?" She showed him her finger - just one of them.
"Cute" He snorted.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

“This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“There was something so primal and hungry about the way he stared down at her.. the way their bodies unconsciously strained toward one another as if nothing - not even time, not distance, not even death- could ever keep them apart.”

Amanda Stevens (1977)

Source: The Restorer

Death, Way, Time

“It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Beauty, Bird, Singing

“I liked her better for showing a little spirit.”

Joanne Harris book Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

“I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Dimitri: "Were you really going to attack all of us? Doing that… protecting her like that—it was very brave. Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?”
Rose: "Because I'm her guardian.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Stupidity

“Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?”
“Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely.
“Yeah? Cool! Whose?”
“Hers.” Shane said.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

“He blinked, and his eyes moved at last from her face, slowly taking in her appearance, and- with what seemed to her a new and horrified awareness- her height.

"My God," he croaked. "”

Diana Gabaldon book Drums of Autumn

Source: Drums of Autumn

God, Appearance

“Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns”

Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist

“As long as she is alive and well and happy in this world, I will find a way to be happy as well, even if it is not beside her”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

World, Way, Happiness

“They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Hate, Learning

“And is it all about the pay?”
“Hence the term mercenary.” He chucked her under the chin. “Try to keep up, halfling.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Desires After Dusk

“On second thought she hoped she never met a woman that attractive.. If she did, she would be morally obligated to run her over with her car.." Bride”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

Hope, Cars

“Malcolm looked warily at her. 'She may be dangerous,' he said to Julian. 'Then again, all women are dangerous.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Women

“I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.”

Mathias Malzieu book La Mécanique du cœur

Source: La Mécanique du cœur

“Okay. But I'm just going to be out there - having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind. You need me? You yell. You want to leave? We go. I'll get you out of here, no matter what.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Cats, Tea

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter

Life, People

“She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.”

Maggie O'Farrell (1972) British writer

Source: After You'd Gone

Life, Feeling, Reality, Reading

“Do you miss her?'
'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid.
- That's what my head said. But my heart… My stupid heart… Her voice broke. It was singing.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Call Me Irresistible

Stupidity, Singing, Heart, Night

“She put a wedge beside my heart
And then she brought the mallet down
She sang no song to guide her work
I lost my heart without a sound”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Heart

“Leo's hands burst into flame. He wanted to melt Gaea's sandy face to glass. Then he felt Calypso's hand on his shoulder.
"Gaea." Her voice was stern and steady. "You are not welcome.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.”

Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye

Heart

“You're awake," he said.
"Phresine is not," pointed out the queen.
"Oh?"
"You gave her lethium."
"She gave it to me first.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Source: A Kiss at Midnight

Behavior, Feeling

“But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“And he hated himself and hated her, too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.”

Dennis Lehane The Given Day

Source: The Given Day

Hate

“She let a teasing tone enter her voice. 'Is thereemergency for which you are not prepared, Mr Swift?'
'Miss Bowman, if I had enough pockets I could save the world.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Scandal in Spring

World

“Furie had once asked her, “Why would you ever send a man to do a woman’s job?”
Confused, Myst had answered, “Because I can.”

Kresley Cole book The Warlord Wants Forever

Source: The Warlord Wants Forever

“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Relationship

“She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Disappointment, Cry

“But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and one time she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Books, Time, Reading, Summer

“She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Girl, Thinking, Help

“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

Fate

“nix: "Do it, or the pictures go live!"

Witch shakes her fist at the sky, crying, "Damn you, Valkyrie! Damn you and your digital ways!”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Kiss of a Demon King

Way, Cry

“It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.”

Marilyn French (1929–2009) Novelist, critic

Source: Her Mother's Daughter

Men, Feeling, Appearance

“Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Love, Moms, Water, Daughters

“There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Failure, Success

“When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Crónica de una muerte anunciada

“Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires.
~Brian Fitzgerald”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Hell

“She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

“Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Heart

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

World, Mood, Dependency

“Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.”

Noah Webster (1758–1843) lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author

“He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Secret, Silence

“Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.”

Paris Hilton (1981) American socialite

Variant: Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Life

“Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Life

“She learned to love him before he thought it was even possible, so he didn't have a chance to hide & mess it up & while it was a little scary at times, mainly he could not even imagine the world without her there.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Trusting Soul

Love, World, Imagination, Learning

“My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

World, Imagination, Idea

“Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Animals, Dance

“He stepped closer to her. "Thank you for saving me," he said softly, and wrapped the bones of his arms around her. Valkyrie smiled and hugged him back.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Dark Days

Smile

“Well…" St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: It Happened One Autumn

Search, Girl

“It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

Life, Truth, Lie, Learning

“I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Feeling

“one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Dreams, Feeling, Soul, Reality

“Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone.”

Henry De Montherlant (1895–1972) French writer

World, Beauty

“My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Life

“So, tell me this: suppose you manage to kidnap her again and take her off to the mall. While you're there a Strigoi comes at you. What will you do?
Depends on what store we're in.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Dependency

“Amy felt her phone vibrate. She held it up. It was from Ian.

DON'T ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING. DON'T SMILE. DON'T SAY "DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING CHEAPER?" DON'T

Amy shoved the phone back in her pocket. "Just pretend to be Ian," she told Dan.”

Jude Watson book A King's Ransom

Source: A King's Ransom

Smile

“He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Love, World

“Walking with her man,
Lost in a dream”

A.A. Milne book Now We Are Six

Source: Now We Are Six

Dreams

“Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Life, Secret, Books, Beauty

“I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Memory, Sun

“She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.”

Jack Kerouac book Maggie Cassidy

Source: Maggie Cassidy

Soul

“I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkdeath

Beauty, Boy, Kiss, Heart

“Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression.
"Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Love, School, Happiness

“No one blames her."
"That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“He gripped her nape. "I fuckin' love you, Regin!" Rain spiked his lashes as he gazed down at her, commanding her,
"Love Me Back”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Love

“A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.”

Diana Norman (1933–2011) British author and journalist

Source: The Serpent's Tale

Fools, Sleep, Baby, Daughters

“But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn't felt it go away, as if he'd known the best moment to let go.”

Thomas Pynchon book The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless romantic obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Life, Hope, Way, Reality

“You look fine.
- Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

Girl

“A girl’s love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Love, Girl

“It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexities like scales.”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

Love, Way, Memory

“… what was it like out there? Kind of describe it to us," Jessa says, beaming at them and then at me. Trini beams at her and there's a lot of beaming happening.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.”

John Steinbeck book Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday

Girl, Fight

“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”

A.A. Milne book When We Were Very Young

Source: When We Were Very Young

Winter, Dead

“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.”

John Milton book Areopagitica

Source: Areopagitica

“She was the captain of her soul”

William Faulkner book Light in August

Source: Light in August

Soul

“Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Lirael

Dogs

“Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.”

Hugh Laurie (1959) British actor, comedian, writer, musician and director

Happiness

“Not enough," he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won't be enough.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Life, Kiss

“The only clothes Amanda has are the ones on her back. (Kyrian)
From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her front neither. (Nick)
One day, Gaitor bait… (Kyrian)
Note to self- be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Clothes

“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?”

Milan Kundera book Identity

pg 40
Source: Identity (1998)

Feeling, Nostalgia, Suffering, Personality

“Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

People, Fear, Chance, Personality

“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

Reading

“She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.”

Georgette Heyer book The Nonesuch

Source: The Nonesuch

Thinking

“A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

Heart

“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

Understanding

“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

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Quotes about herring page 38

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