Merilyn Glidwell > Merilyn's Quotes

“Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, Governors, Mayors, Judges and Justices all fall prey to the Hitman.”
― RB Le `Deach, My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories

“You piece of shit, you need a wife; a woman’s touch in your life.’ But who would marry someone like me? Being a PI isn’t exactly the best profession to be in to attract a wife. I’ve read about too many investigators and policemen who end up divorced and I certainly fall into that category.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

“What the hell, if you are going to roll the dice with Lucifer, I say go the distance.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“There is a reason why it used to be that politics, religion, and sex were not topics for polite conversation. It is because our grandparents knew that while everyone is legally entitled to vote, pray, and fuck, the vast majority of people aren’t competent to do any one of the three properly.”
― J.K. Franko

“There are many of them in the world, I think, good men and women with their frail deeds. Wondering what might have been, how things might have danced, if we had only dared to be bright.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“The change will do you good,” she said simply, when he had finished; “and you must be sure to go and see Ellen,” she added, looking him straight in the eyes with her cloudless smile, and speaking in the tone she might have employed in urging him not to neglect some irksome family duty.

It was the only word that passed between them on the subject; but in the code in which they had both been trained it meant: “Of course you understand that I know all that people have been saying about Ellen, and heartily sympathize with my family in their effort to get her to return to her husband. I also know that, for some reason you have not chosen to tell me, you have advised her against this course, which all the older men of the family, as well as our grandmother, agree in approving; and that it is owing to your encouragement that Ellen defies us all, and exposes herself to the kind of criticism of which Mr. Sillerton Jackson probably gave you this evening, the hint that has made you so irritable… Hints have indeed not been wanting; but since you appear unwilling to take them from others, I offer you this one myself, in the only form in which well-bred people of our kind can communicate unpleasant things to each other: by letting you understand that I know you mean to see Ellen when you are in Washington, and are perhaps going there expressly for that purpose; and that, since you are sure to see her, I wish you to do so with my full and explicit approval—and to take the opportunity of letting her know what the course of conduct you have encouraged her in is likely to lead to.”

Her hand was still on the key of the lamp when the last word of this mute message reached him. She turned the wick down, lifted off the globe, and breathed on the sulky flame.

“They smell less if one blows them out,” she explained, with her bright housekeeping air. On the threshold she turned and paused for his kiss.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“If I wanted to stun anyone at dinner, I'd hit them in the face.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“as the revolution was made by human beings, it was burdened with their failings.”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“It felt like faith, like revelation: that things went on, that life ground on regardless, and mindless, and produced pain and pleasure and hope and fear and joy and despair, and you dodged some of it and you sought some of it and sometimes you were lucky
and sometimes you weren’t, and sometimes you could plan your way ahead and that would be the right thing to have done, but other times all you could do was forget about plans and just be ready to react, and sometimes the obvious was true and sometimes it
wasn’t, and sometimes experience helped but not always, and it was all luck, fate, in the end; you lived, and you waited to see what happened, and you would rarely ever be sure that what you had done was really the right thing or the wrong thing, because things can
always be better, and things can always be worse.”
― Iain Banks

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
― Emily Dickinson

“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please.
Please.
If you're up there.
Somewhere.”
― Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses

“If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“It's not how long you see something. It's how you intensely you feel it"


From Central Park Song: a Screenplay”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Art feasts upon its maker”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“If you stand in a wheat field at this time of year, a few weeks from harvest, it's not hard to imagine you're looking at something out of mythology: all this golden sunlight brought down to earth, captured in kernels of gold, and rendered fit for mortals to eat. But of course this is no myth at all, just the plain miraculous fact.”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Jednom sam čučao nasred potoka i promatrao jednog malog pauka kako pokušava prebaciti svoju nit na drugu stranu. On je, činilo se, bio odlučio napraviti najveću mrežu na cijelom potoku i zato je izabrao mjesto gdje je potok bio najširi. Pričvrstio bi svoju nit, skočio u zrak i pao u vodu. Voda bi ga ponijela, on bi iz sve snage plivao, uspentrao bi se na obalu i vratio do iste one paprati. Onda bi ponovo pokušao. Kad se treći put vratio na paprat, do-puzao je do vrška jedne grane i legao; prednjih nogu prekriženih ispod brade, proučavao je vodu. Pretpostavljao sam da je bio blizu toga da odustane - ja sam bio, guzica mi se bila ukočila zbog zime od čučanja u hladnoj vodi. On je ležao tamo proučavajući i razmišljajući. Onda mu je nešto palo na pamet! Počeo je skakati gore dolje, gore dolje, i grana se počela njihati gore dolje. I dalje je tako skakao, skakao... i onda, iznenada, kad je grana bila jako visoko, odskočio je, raširio svoj kišobran - i uspio!
Bio je sav ponosan i skakao od oduševljenja, dok skoro nije pao u vodu. Na kraju je ipak napravio najveću mrežu koju sam ikada vidio.”
― Forrest Carter, Malo drvo

“Knock! knock!
who's there?
me!
me who?
that's right?
what's right?
meehoo!
that's what I want to know!
what's what you want to know?
me who?
yes, exactly!
exactly what?
yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain!
exactly what on a chain?
yes!
yes what?
no, exactlywatt!
that's what I want to know!
I told you-exactlywatt!
exactly what?
yes!
yes what?
yes it's with me.
what's with you?
exactlywatt-that's what with me.
me who?
yes!
go away!
knock knock...”
― Shel Silverstein

“From the stars,” she thought, “doubtless all things are seen.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women

“The blessing of forgetfulness: that was the first essential. If everything one did, or which one’s fathers had done, was an endless sequence of Doings doomed to break forth bloodily, then the past must be obliterated and a new start made. Man must be ready to say: Yes, since Cain there has been injustice, but we can only set the misery right if we accept a status quo. Lands have been robbed, men slain, nations humiliated. Let us now start fresh without remembrance, rather than live forward and backward at the same time. We cannot build the future by avenging the past. Let us sit down as brothers, and accept the Peace of God.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Il modo in cui ci comportiamo con gli altri, anche nelle cose più piccole, è una misura del nostro valore come esseri umani.”
― Lynne Truss, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door

“It was the second time in three days that I'd taken up space normally reserved for a dead body. It seemed like the universe was trying to tell me something and not in a terribly subtle way.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds

“It’s not how much money you make. It’s how much you keep.”
― T. Rafael Cimino, Table 21

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon