Codi Clowdus > Codi's Quotes

“Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Goodnight nobody. Goodnight mush.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

“The diffrense from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna: An Inspirational True Story and Christian Memoir of Faith and Innocence

“انسانها آفريده شده اند؛
که عشق بورزند و به آنها عشق ورزیده شود....!!!
اشیاء ساخته شده اند؛
که مورد استفاده قرار بگیرند...!!!
دلیل آشفتگی های دنیا این است؛
که به اشياء عشق ورزیده می شود
و انسانها مورد استفاده قرار میگيرند.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There! The boys are in from the pond.”
Winnie heard a burst of voices downstairs, and in a moment Miles and Jesse were climbing to the loft.
“Here, child,” said Mae hastily. “Hide your eyes. Boys? Are you decent? What’d you put on to swim in? I got Winnie up here, do you hear me?”
“For goodness’ sake, Ma,” said Jesse, emerging from the stairwell. “You think we’re going to march around in our altogether with Winnie Foster in the house?”
And Miles, behind him, said, “We just jumped in with our clothes on. Too hot and tired to shed ’em.”
It was true. They stood there side by side with their wet clothes plastered to their skins, little pools of water collecting at their feet.
“Well!” said Mae, relieved. “All right. Find something dry to put on. Your pa’s got supper nearly ready.” And she hustled Winnie down the narrow stairs.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Maybe it was me. Maybe I wanted to hate him because I'm in love with his wife, and if that's the case, what kind of man does that make me?”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“With complete calmness, the murderer turned and walked out of the dining room; out of the heavy double doors.”
― Behcet Kaya

“The Martians want to build a 2:b colony on Titan and not allow mixing of species, while the Bug and black market investors here on Earth want to experiment on them. Both the red and the blue planets have devilish plans for your people, I'm afraid.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Return to Planet Earth

“He didn’t give a damn for the defeatist Kennedy, or indeed for that stuffed-shirt Chamberlain, whom Hitler had comprehensively hoodwinked. Nothing should stand in the way of a murder investigation, however lowly the victim. No doubt Joan’s fate would seem unimportant in the greater scheme of things whenever the Luftwaffe got round to bombing London, but that was nothing to him. It was his job to seek out the truth behind her death, regardless.”
― Mark Ellis, Princes Gate

“The moisture in the air sat in the crevices of storefront windows, like the tears that welled in the corners of her dark brown eyes.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

“From up here, the world doesn’t seem so small and confining.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“The old man smiled. “If they could talk, these walls would tell you of battles lost and won, of fear and terror, of red fire and white light, of peace and prosperity. Aldene has a history going back centuries.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

“I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Když Tvůj přítel padne, nemáš se radovat, ale ani mu nemáš pomoct vstát.”
― Primo Levi, If Not Now, When?

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”
― Adam Smith, Correspondence of Adam Smith

“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“patience, prayer and turmeric; the foundation, the corner stones of my journey out of the darkness. Each one of these elements has played a critical role in the process. Since October, in addition to a diet replete in anti-oxidant rich foods, I’ve been ingesting cayenne pepper and turmeric four times a day. The cayenne I mix in a glass of water; the turmeric is hidden in lemon or blueberry yogurt.”
― Traci Medford-Rosow, Unblinded: One Man's Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight

“So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those corset laces if we intend to keep you an intimate dinner company."
"I expected the corset unlacing would take place after dinner," Celia says mildly, earning a chorus of laughter.
"We shall keep Miss Bowen as intimate company regardless of the state of her corset," Chandresh says. "Make a note of that," he adds, waving a hand at Marco.
"Miss Bowen's corset is duly noted, sir," Marco replies, and the laghter bubbles over the table again.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus