Lilly Keen > Lilly's Quotes

“come back, come back to me”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

“A grown child is a dangerous thing.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something.
What can she become? I asked.
Why, she said, the mother of his children.
But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you.
You got to fight them for yourself.

I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.”
― Alice Walker The Color Purple, The Color Purple

“I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“She look so stylish it like the trees all round the house draw themself up tall for a better look.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I can't fix my mouth to say how I feel.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“If you was my wife, she say, I'd cover you up with kisses stead of licks, and work hard for you too.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“All womens not alike, Tobias, she say. Believe it or not.
Oh, I believe it, he say. Just can't prove it to the world.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Tashi knows she is learning a way of life she will never live.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple