"â€žMa'am?â€œ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. â€œHmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.â€œ â€œMelrose,â€œ I corrected. â€œAre you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia.â€œ â€žWell, my first name is Sydney,â€œ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her."

-- Richelle Mead

#Names Quotes #Australia Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.”
“Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.”
“There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism.”
“People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you're all equally sure that you're at the beginning of something good. That's how it is when you meet people you're going to be with for a long time.”
“It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.”
“Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.”
“Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are.”
“Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.”

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