Page 113 Quotes

“I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you'd never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“But marriage is not like that, Chief-Inspector. There can be no rapture continued indefinitely. We are fortunate indeed if we can achieve a life of quiet content, affection, and serene and sober happiness.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side

“I intend to be governor of this state. My target is four years from now.” He spoke coolly, agreeably, but there was an underlying hint of power in him that hadn’t surfaced before.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“If I never could buy what Sigurd was selling, this was the reason. My kind of people weren’t going to take over anything. If they were at the bottom of life’s pile, they were mostly mad at themselves. I’m sure my father believed to his very bones, this is a free country and you get as much as you’ll work for. Or little. Period. A man might rail his fist at God or drink himself blind, but his heart will go on telling him the same truth: If you hate what you’re reaping, you should have tended better to sowing the seed. Where I come from, that’s adulthood. The rock-solid belief you’re living the fate you’ve earned. Richer, happier people believed this too, I’d come to understand, from my life on this campus. The deserving of good fortune, I’d felt even from Jon Link and his family, not that we talked about it. I just saw it dyed in their wool, the sense that having money was proof of their industry and cleverness. That wealth and education give you the right to be in charge of people who don’t have much of either. Not just in charge, possibly more favored by God.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita