Hemavathy DM Suppiah-Devi > Recent Status Updates

"Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic."

"Meredith Combs, the social worker responsible for selecting the stream of adoptive families that gave me back, wanted to talk about blame."

I like this book already.

All doors are hard to unlock until you have the key.

When her conscience insisted it was wrong to eat cake honoring someone she detested, and who detested her, she promised the annoying little voice a pink-frosting rose to shut up.

Some folks in Freedom are so mean in spirit they don’t deserve anything better than a good kick. But Miss Delphine, she can look right through their mean spirit and find something the rest of us overlooked.

When she got to Ivy’s back porch, Pearl sat on the steps to catch her breath. She put her chin on her knees, thinking. She wondered which was worse—your mama not wanting you and you having nobody else, or your mama not wanting you and the only other person you have is a wrinkled-up old lady in the bed.

Kirk was as much overcome by the beauty, simplicity and economy of this solution as Copernicus must have been when he first thought of putting the sun in the centre of the Solar System and saw all the planets, instead of describing complicated and ugly geometrical capers, move onward in orderly and dignified circles.

Loving it so far.

Don’t like Amanda, and Janie is a brat.

Already formed a strong dislike of self absorbed Maureen who wants to be a benevolent Mother life figure to everyone, and yet forgets that she’s a mother to Molly too.

When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

"I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand an at is within, we can't understand what is without." Anita Moorjani.

“The effect doors had on people altered as well. Some people claimed to know people who knew people who had been through such doors. A normal door, they said, could become a special door, and it could happen without warning, to any door at all. Most people thought these rumors to be nonsense, the superstitions of the feeble-minded. But most people began to gaze”

On the third day she died.

"I do not want another kind of school, " said Mr Segundus, peevishly.

He was quite certain that he had saved the King from some horrible fate or other. He simply did not know what it was.

Magicians have no business marrying.

"You are no more a milliner than I am... !"
"A magician?"

"Cold at first, hot at last!"

The little finger of her left hand was gone.