Jenny Nimmo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.
-- Jenny Nimmo

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It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.
-- Jenny Nimmo

#Reading #Exceptional
You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes" - Uncle Paton Yewbeam
-- Jenny Nimmo

#Country #Uncles #Son

Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
How long does getting thin take?
It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you.
Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.
Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

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