Tamara Puhuyaoma > Tamara's Quotes

“Isn’t this exciting!”
― A.R. Merrydew, Inara

“Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Didn’t anyone ever teach you to watch where you were going?” he teased.

“Didn’t anyone ever teach you to put your things away so that people didn’t trip over them?” she quickly fired back, irritated that he found the entire situation amusing. “And while we are talking, I truly need to know. Do you ever wear clothes?”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

“I feel his love most strongly when I am confident in his love.”
― Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet
up to this point.
“Indeed. How much will it cost?” asked Brown
“About twenty million Interplanetary Credits,” said Demba. “A modest investment for
a man of your means.”
“Indeed,” said Brown again. That was all the money he had, which started to strike
him as strange, when his thoughts were interrupted.
“We’ll arrange a visit to the mine,” said Ito. “Show you the place itself.”
“Indeed,” said Brown. Or had he said that? The strange waking memory he had fallen
into started to become repetitive. Reality started to flow back in.
Diamonds, thought Brown. All those diamonds in that mine.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“Tantra! You might want to read about it. There’s a reason why feminine energy exists in this world”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“Ever since then, whenever I go through the main hall, I detect a hint of amusement in the empress’s smile.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

“In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?”
― Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“There is a place where the sidewalk ends.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond