Merry > Merry's Quotes

“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, These Happy Golden Years

“And yet as my eyes turned to Stephen facing the sunrise from Simon in the darkness of my mind, it was as if Simon had been the living face and Stephen's the one I was imagining - or a photograph, a painting, something beautiful but not really alive for me. My whole heart was so full of Simon that even my pity for Stephen wasn't quite real - it was only something I felt I ought to feel, more from my head than from my heart. And I knew I ought to pity him all the more because I could pity him so little.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“He closes his eyes. A jungle in there, inside his head. He opens them quickly.”
― Judith Guest, Ordinary People

“Mary’s childhood was rough. She was frequently beaten and chastised by the nuns who served as her protectors and brutalized by the older girls in the orphanage.

Oh how I wept those first few years of my life. My tears came like tropical storms. Every pore in my body wept. I heaved and shuddered and sighed. Everything around me seemed dark and terrifying.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Jesus told me that he died on the cross so we could go see his Dad” - Colton Burpo”
― Todd burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

“To repeat a prayer-demand over and over again, whether mentally or out loud, with ever-deeper attention and devotion, spiritualizes the prayer; it changes conscious, concentrated repetition into superconscious experience.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Whispers from Eternity: A Book of Answered Prayers

“And I know there are plenty of other "colored" things I could do besides telling my stories or going to Shirley Boon's meetings- the mass meetings in town, the marches in Birmingham, the voting rallies upstate. But truth is, I don't care that much about voting. I don't care about eating at a counter with white people. What I care about is, if in ten years, a white lady will call my girls dirty and accuse them of stealing the silver.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“The three-step farming system that gives our pigs food from our behinds, fertilizer for our dry fields from the pigs’ behinds, and a pig that can eventually be eaten.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women