"She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow."

-- Julianna Baggott

#Grandfather Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Thatâ€™s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. Thatâ€™s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.”
“Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.”
“You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.”
“I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.”

Source : Joel Chandler Harris, Richard Chase (1983). “The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Those who delve into the scriptural library â€¦ find that to understand requires more than casual reading or perusalâ€”there must be concentrated study. â€¦ One who studies the scriptures every day accomplishes far more than one who devotes considerable time one day and then lets days go by before continuing.”
“All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.”

Source : "As American As Cheesecake" by Ellen Goodman, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 1987.
“If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.”
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”

Source : "Fictional character: Vincent Crummles". "Nicholas Nickleby", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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