Page 223 Quotes

“The temperament of a dandelion or cosmic preservation. Where does wonder begin?”
― Elizabeth Smart, Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart

“Winter was usually the slow season at the menagerie, with so many of the animals hibernating, but that year I was busier than a hen with a double set of chicks.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Across the Great Barrier

“I guess it's the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they're strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.”
― Lauren Oliver, Rooms

“I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism-if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“They got into a conversation. What intrigued Tamina were his questions. Not their content, but the simple fact that he was asking them. My God, it had been so long since anyone had asked her about anything! It seemed like an eternity! Only her husband had kept asking her questions, because love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“His pulses were beating too fast, not in fear but in desperate hope.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man