Fatimah Bibber > Fatimah's Quotes

“A long walk. A very long walk. Sand between my toes. The rough surf at times reaching and washing away my footprints. About a mile down the beach, I sat down and started thinking back through everything Vance had told me so far. Thought about what my next moves would be. Seeing the Asian guy tomorrow and having him snoop would settle one thing in my mind. Did Vance do it or not? Crucial. Until I knew that, I didn’t want to go any further.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

“Oh, so now I'm getting in trouble for things I didn't tell anyone I didn't know?”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

“Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“Bringing her eyes down again, Catherine found herself gawking at Jake’s perfectly formed, muscular chest and stomach. She felt her cheeks flush when she he noticed that his towel was still parted, showing off a very lean, muscular leg.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

“Get up you lazy bastard. The Governor wants a word with you,” said a guard. 
He opened his eyes and smiled. There was another guard standing near the cell door in 
anticipation of any trouble. The prisoner smiled at him, too. 
Now what can the Governor want from me? He wondered. His dishevelled form seemed 
incapable of coherent thought. “It’s nice of him to remember me,” he said aloud, trying to 
concentrate.
“Surprising he’s got any time for a worthless shit like you,” said the first guard. 
“I once used to be a very important person,” the prisoner said feebly.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest I that I go to than I have ever known."

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens”
― Barbara Sontheimer

“It seemed warmer outside, as though it were going to snow again.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“I don't know, Jondalar. Maybe you haven't found the right woman. Maybe the Mother has someone special for you. She doesn't make many like you. You are really more than most women could bear. If all your love were concentrated on one, it could overwhelm her, if she wasn't one to whom the Mother gave equal gifts.”
― Jean M. Auel, The Valley of Horses

“In nature nothing exists alone.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“But in another part of her head, the dark part where her oldest fears were housed, she knew there was another sort of reason for staying at home: she was afraid to go away alone.
[...] The characters in stories she read always seemed to go off without a thought or care, but in real life– well, the world was a dangerous place. People were always telling her so. And she would not be able to manage without protection. They were always telling her that, too.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Era indubbio, la vita senza un cane era più facile e immensamente più semplice. Potevamo andare via per il fine settimana senza dover prenotare il canile. Potevamo uscire a cena senza preoccuparci di quale cimelio di famiglia sarebbe stato in pericolo questa volta. I bambini potevano mangiare senza dover fare la guardia ai loro piatti. La pattumiera non doveva più essere posata sul balcone della cucina quando uscivamo. Potevamo di nuovo rilassarci e goderci il magnifico spettacolo di un bel temporale. Io apprezzavo soprattutto la libertà di muovermi per la casa senza una gigantesca calamita gialla incollata alle calcagna.
Eppure, come famiglia, ci mancava qualcosa.”
― John Grogan, Io & Marley

“would flower; and where birds came—and pecked”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

“Julien took breath for a moment in the shade of these great rocks and then started to go up higher. By a narrow, unfrequented path, used only by the goat shepherds, he soon found himself upon an immense rock, where he was sure of being all alone. That physical position made him smile; it pictured to him the moral plane he was burning to reach. The pure air of those high mountains imparted serenity to his soul, even joy.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“For the natural selectivity of the island I will have to substitute a conscious selectivity based on another sense of values – a sense of values I have become more aware of here. Island precepts, I might call them if I could define them, signposts toward another way of living. Simplicity of living, as much as possible, to retain a true awareness of life. Balance of physical, intellectual and spiritual life. Work without pressure. Space for significance and beauty. Time for solitude and sharing. Closeness to nature to strengthen understanding and faith in the intermittent of life: life of the spirit, creative life and the life of human relationships. A few shells.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“When going on a journey it is not just the strength of a man’s legs, but the provisions he prepares for the trip.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country

“The hills in the distance held my life in a bowl filled with everything I could possibly want.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.”
― Lemony Snicket

“It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.”
― John Irving, In One Person

“Sober, gainfully employed, and physically secure once again, Kevin began to relax. His confidence slowly returned. For the first time since the onset of his blindness, he let his guard down and a crack in his carefully constructed veneer formed.
Light flooded in.
And with it, hope.”
― Traci Medford-Rosow, Unblinded: One Man's Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight

“Dan Rosenthal rose happily from his drawing board to shake hands on hearing there was a baby on the way. But after that brief ceremony, when we'd both sat down again, he peered at me reflectively. "How can you be a father," he asked, "when you still look like a son?" ”
― Richard Yates, The Collected Stories

“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“That stood to reason. Life is awfully important so if you’ve given it away you’d ought to think with all your mind in the last moments of your life about the thing you traded it for. So did all those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the safety of the home and the stars and stripes forever? You’re goddam right they didn’t.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“The simple cannot choose their personal heresy, Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land, who passes through their village or stops in their square.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“You can act like a policeman or a soldier, but not both.”
― Tom Clancy, Patriot Games

“hound weren’t the only ones awake that night.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

“Yes. Just now, I was actually trying to rank 'I love you, I like you, I worship you, I have to have my cock inside you,' in terms of relative sincerity.

Did I day that? he said sounding slightly startled.

Yes. Weren't you listening?

No, he admitted. I meant every word of it though. His hand cupped one buttock, weighing it appreciatively. Still do come to that.

What, even that last one? I laughed and rubbed my forehead gently against his chest, feeling his jaw rest snugly on top of my head.

Oh, aye, he said gathering me firmly against him with a sigh. I will say the flesh requires a bit of supper and a wee rest before I think of doin' it again, but the spirit is always willing. God, ye have the sweetest fat wee bum. Only seeing it makes me want to give it yea again directly. It's lucky ye're wed to a decrepit auld man, Sessenach, or ye'd be on your knees with your arse in the air this minute.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“The road was little trafficked, and I was too happy about my escape to feel much fear. I was free of orders.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White