Edda Mcgalliard > Edda's Quotes

“Oskar Scultetus said, “Two of my men have been ordered to cut two of the guy wires holding the transmission tower in place, and they are already doing so  using  oxy-acetylene torches. When they have done it, the tower will fall!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

“I need a minute.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

“But that never happened and I moved on, and I think that’s all we can do at this point…”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

“He thrust his shoulders back and spoke in a whisper that sounded like the hiss of a snake.
‘Yes, the very battle between good and evil, played out even in the lowliest of lives like yours. Witches killing dogs because they did not get their favourite drink.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“la voluntad de los favoritos del príncipe. Así lo ha dispuesto la naturaleza: Cada uno se pitra por sus propios descubrimientos. ¡Al cuervo le ríe su cría y a la mona le gusta su hija!”
― Thomas More, UTOPÍA

“For she was really too lovely--too formidably lovely. I was used by now to mere unadjectived loveliness, the kind that youth and spirits hang like a rosy veil over commonplace features, an average outline and a pointless merriment. But this was something calculated, accomplished, finished--and just a little worn. It frightened me with my first glimpse of the infinity of beauty and the multiplicity of her pit-falls. What! There were women who need not fear crow's-feet, were more beautiful for being pale, could let a silver hair or two show among the dark, and their eyes brood inwardly while they smiled and chatted? but then no young man was safe for a moment! But then the world I had hitherto known had been only a warm pink nursery, while this new one was a place of darkness, perils and enchantments...”
― Edith Wharton, Old New York

“OFF THE COUCH! BAD KITTIES!”
― Jon Scieszka, Who Done It?

“Every day that passed, the young woman thought more and understood less”
― Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

“إن الثراء ليس غاية الجميع”
― Jeffrey Archer, As the Crow Flies

“And when they would be talking and Granma would say, “Do ye kin me, Wales?” and he would answer, “I kin ye,” it meant, “I understand ye.” To them, love and understanding was the same thing. Granma said you couldn’t love something you didn’t understand; nor could you love people, nor God, if you didn’t understand the people and God. Granpa and Granma had an understanding, and so they had a love. Granma said the understanding run deeper as the years went by, and she reckined it would get beyond anything mortal folks could think upon or explain. And so they called it “kin.” Granpa”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree