Page 147 Quotes

“I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his sake, I hope it's the former. For you own, I hope the latter.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magisterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nature's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.”
― Lawrence Millman, Last Places: A Journey in the North – A Classic Adventure Along Ancient Viking Routes from Norway to Newfoundland

“In love. [Her] face was burning. She didn't want [him] to say what she herself never put into words. In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“I couldn't master this kind of apathy, no matter how hard I tried. I was built to care - to notice, to overanalyze, to try - in a way that felt inalterable.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Mama will be pleased to know that her least favourite daughter is to be married."
"To her least favourite man in the world, no doubt. I clearly recall how Mrs. Bennet barely tolerated my presence when I visited Longbourne.”
― P.O. Dixon, Bewitched, Body and Soul: Miss Elizabeth Bennet

“Luke knew how to accept defeat when he met it.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Then, with a smile, she nodded a farewell and went back into the house.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy