Quotes about herring
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“I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.
I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Way, Tear

“She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

Source: Pot Luck

Love, Pleasure, Nature, Passion

“He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he's tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend's hair. Ever.”

Barry Lyga (1971) American writer

Source: I Hunt Killers

Time

“When is your birthday?” (…)
Wide silver-gold eyes swung to him. “You don’t know?”
“No.”
Pouting, she twirled a strand of her hair. “How can you not know?”
“Do you know mine?” he asked.
“Of course I do. It’s the day you met me.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Surrender

Birthday

“Nefertiti, the most beautiful calico in the world, chose me as her own six short years ago.”

P. C. Cast (1960) American writer

World, Beauty

“Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle.

(Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)”

Tamora Pierce book Sandry's Book

Source: Sandry's Book

Girl

“She did not speak for speech was unknown to her.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

Chance

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Words

The Words (1964), speaking of his grandmother.

“If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Soul, Thinking, Sense

“So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Learning

“To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Death, Nature, Reading

“Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality”

Mario Vargas Llosa book The Bad Girl

Source: Travesuras de la niña mala

Love, Heart, Personality

“I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Love, Books, Reading

“Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.”

Tamora Pierce book Bloodhound

Source: Bloodhound

Hate, Sense

“A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

Life

“Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.”

Bertrand Russell book Marriage and Morals

Source: Marriage and Morals

Love, Hate, Way

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Love, Making love, Way

“Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Life, Women

“She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Reading

“Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke.
"Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

“She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

Education, School

“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

Source: Pensées

Truth, Art, Nature, Dependency

“Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

Tear, Memory, Past, Cry

“You look invincible,' my mother said one night.
I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said:
I am.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Love, Feeling, Time, Night

“Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.”

Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children

Source: Trickster's Choice

People, Cats, Forgetting

“Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Life, Beauty, Parting

“She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.”

Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence

Source: The Museum of Innocence

Life, Children, People, World

“If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Source: 1970s, Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979), p. 249

Success, Personality

“Even the birds above the lake
Are singing of my love,
And even the flowers along the shore
Are growing for her sake.

All the vines are ripening
And the trees come into bud,
For my love's footsteps passing by
Are summoning the spring.

Rian's stars in the night
Shine more brightly over her,
The god's moon and the goddess's
Guard her with their light.

Even the birds above the lake
Are singing of my love,
And even the flowers along the shore
Are growing for her sake”

Guy Gavriel Kay (1954) Canadian author of fantasy fiction

Source: A Song for Arbonne

Love, God, Star, Spring

“The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.”

Betty Friedan book The Feminine Mystique

Interviews with Betty Friedan, Janann Sherman, ed. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2002, ISBN 1578064805, p. x.
Source: The Feminine Mystique

Way, Personality

“That man is such a damn turd monkey."
"Grandma!" I said.
"Oh, Zoeybird, did I call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey out loud?"
"Yes, Grandma, you did."
She looked at me, her dark eyes sparkling. "Good.”

Kristin Cast book Chosen

Source: Chosen

Grandma

“He kills her in her own humor.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Life, Fear, Light, Waiting

“I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

Girl

“Frank Sinatra stopped his car. The light was red. Pedestrians passed quickly across his windshield but, as usual, one did not. It was a girl in her twenties. She remained at the curb staring at him. Through the corner of his left eye he could see her, and he knew, because it happens almost every day, that she was thinking, It looks like him, but is it? Just before the light turned green, Sinatra turned toward her, looked directly into her eyes waiting for the reaction he knew would come. It came and he smiled. She smiled and he was gone.”

Gay Talese (1932) American writer

"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

Smile, Cars, Girl, Thinking

“Virginia Woolf helps. Her novels make mine possible.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Help

“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride."

"I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."

She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Love, Lie, Secret, Personality

“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do.
And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find
herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

Death, Dance

“Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.”

Christopher Paolini (1983) American author

Source: Eragon & Eldest

Painting, Perfection

“My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Source: Lolita

Nature, Heart, Sea

“Every woman should have a purse of her own.”

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist

“A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.”

Terry Pratchett book Wintersmith

Source: Wintersmith

Soul

“If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

Star

“Stanley:
Delicate piece she is.
Stella:
She is. She was. You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

People, Girl, Change

“What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.”

Alice Munro (1931) Canadian novelist

Laughter, Time

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

Love, Loss

“There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.”

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist

Dependency, Personality

“A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

Life, Heart

“Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.”

Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando

Star

“But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.”

Virginia Woolf book The Years

Source: The Years

Lie, Thinking

“Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.”

Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur

World

“On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.”

Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

Source: Walk Two Moons

Sadness, Hope, Night, Box

“I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.”

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist

Way, Girl, Thinking, Sense

“It doesn't matter. Take Eddie's blood. Take Belikov's blood. Take your own for all I care. But If she doesn't want to give hers, then that's all there is to it. She said no. This conversation is done.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Women, Lovers, Thinking, Daughters

“Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

Knowledge, Learning

“She comes back
Through blood by blood
She returns
Cut deep now
Like me
Humanity saves her
Will she save me?”

Kristin Cast book Hunted

Source: Hunted

“The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.”

Edward Thomas (1878–1917) Poet and journalist

Source: "The Unknown", line 16, cited from Collected Poems (London: Selwyn & Blount, 1920), p. 116.

Relationship, Romantic

“The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!”

Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

“She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

Imagination

“Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class”

P. C. Cast book Betrayed

Source: Betrayed

Love

“… Neferet fell smack on her butt.”

P. C. Cast book Chosen

Source: Chosen

“One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Women, Beauty

“I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: Anybody Out There?

Birth

“She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I lov'd her that she did pity them”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap. — And I found her bitter. — And I cursed her.”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l'ai trouvée amère. <br class="br">Et je l'ai injuriée. <br class="br"> Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873)

Beauty

“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

Truth

“He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

Love, Sun

“JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?

ORLANDO: Yes, just.

JAQUES: I do not like her name.

ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

Love

“There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.”

Jim Crace book Harvest

Source: Harvest

Missing You

“When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Queen

Source: The Other Queen

For Wife, Love, Death, Marriage

“He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Source: Faithless

Life

“It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.”

Saul Bellow book Herzog

Source: Herzog

God, Hate

“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”

Nalo Hopkinson book Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring

Loss, Heart

“They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

Children, Nature

“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

“She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Life

“I killed her once and died for her many times”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Time

“Being in love, you know… it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.”

Sarah Waters book Tipping the Velvet

Source: Tipping the Velvet

Love

“She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Source: Lolita

“You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew… God doesn't make the world this way. We do.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

God, Fate, World, Dogs

“I sighed and stared off without any particular focus. "I miss him so much."
"I'm sorry," she said.
"Will it ever get better?"
The question seemed to catch her by surprise. "I… I don't know.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Question

“There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.”

Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

Love, Life, Hate, Time

“What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.”

Salvador Dalí book The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

In The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí - first publication in 1942
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1941 - 1950
Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

“Out of her favour, where I am in love.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

Love

“Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Stupidity, Hurt

“Becky Renee Apple - can you believe her mom named her that and then had all of her sweaters monogramed with 'BRA'?”

P. C. Cast book Burned

Source: Burned

Moms

“The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.”

William Shakespeare Timon of Athens

Source: Timon of Athens

Sun

“I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Love

“They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down…”

Terry Pratchett book Nation

Source: Nation

Men

“This morning, with her, having coffee”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

Good Morning, Coffee

“his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Love, Imagination

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