Top 49 Maryrose Wood Quotes
#1. You're not where you were, and you're not where you're going. You're here, so pay attention!
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#2. It makes no difference what you wear, really. I'll put you in a dark grey. I believe I have some left over from a funeral. says the dressmaker.
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#3. Truth, terrible truth! It is like an ancient curse, from which there is no escape. The truth will drive one mad. Yet without it, how can one make sense of life's madness?
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#4. Thank you for your bounty, Oleander, Prince of Poisons, I think. Thank you for all that Mr. Pratt has already received, and all that my father is receiving still, as the poison twists like bramble in his gut, burns within his brain, presses like a boulder upon his heart.
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#5. All books are judged by their covers until they are read.
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#6. I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that.
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#7. This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to precipitate unnecessary wars as well as a painful gaseous condition called stock market bubbles.
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#8. The Hawaiian shirts fairly scream to be put on,
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#9. foxglove
IN THE
oleander
RIGHT DOSE
moonseed
EVERYTHING
belladonna
IS A POISON
love.
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#10. If both of your shoes are shined, then your best foot will always be forward.
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#11. ...even in her current nervous state Penelope recognized them as Mineola ferns, native to a long island whose name she could not quite recall" -Penelope
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#12. When the impossible becomes merely difficult, that's when you know you've won. - Agatha Swanburne
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#13. Complaining doesn't butter the biscuit" -Agatha Swanburne
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#14. To do something familiar and succeed is no surprise, but to try something new and fail--why, that is the start of an adventure.
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#15. Then you should be as willing. I know how poison fascinates you. Surely dying from it will fascinate you, too." Leaning closer, I hiss, "It is a pity you cannot take notes.
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#16. If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.
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#17. The plants themselves gave me a cure for that: They taught me to bury myself when I need to regain my strength. It is what they do - return to the ground, rest, and begin again.
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#18. I take my metal canister of tea off the shelf. It is my own mixture of dried lavender blossoms and lemon balm, harvested from my garden and hung in the storeroom to dry. Weed helped me hang these stalks, I think. His hands touched these tender leaves, just as they touch me.
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#19. The girl sounded uncharacteristically bashful as she offered her gift. It was a small, hand-sewn pillow, with one word embroidered crookedly on its front. Loveawoo, it said.
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#21. Weed Rises to his feet. "Nature," he says softly, "makes so many beautiful things. But I did not know until you that nature could make a girl so beautiful.
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#22. Like a milk mustache, faint traces of you persist; love leaves evidence.
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#23. In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.
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#24. I supposed this is what is meant by 'growing up'...Find out the difference between what one expected one's life would be like and how things really are" -Lady Constance
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#25. No hopeless case is truly without hope." - Agatha Swanburne
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#26. Weed, are you familiar with the work of Carl Linnaeus? His Systema Naturae describes a classification system for all growing things."
Weed's eyes dart everywhere, probing every corner. "Unless he visited the madhouse, I never met him," he replies.
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#28. Remember, Weed: The good of one tree is not important. The good of the forest is what matters.
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#29. There is power in words used accurately and well, and tragedy and missed train connections in words used carelessly.
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#30. Plants make the air! Do you understand what that means? Our food, our air, our very lives come from the plants. How could they not be of divine origin, of divine intelligence? How can we deny that, in some essential way, they are no less than you or I?
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#31. Feeling one ought to apologize is not quite the same thing as saying 'I am sorry' -Penelope
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#32. Some stupid fairy tale charecter. Like a cheap plastic toy you'd get get by sending in the top of a lucky charms box plus $3.99 shipping and handling.
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#33. I watch, and wait. And mourn, for what I must now do to save Jessamine's life makes me unworthy of her love. Whether she lives or dies, I know I have lost her.
I have lost her, forever.
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#34. Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.
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#35. To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne
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#36. That which can be purchases at a shop is easily left in a taxi; that which you carry inside you is difficult, though not impossible, to misplace" -Agatha Swanburne
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#37. If you have ever opened a can of worms, boxed yourself into a corner, ended up in hot water, or found yourself in a pretty pickle, you already know that life is rarely (if ever) just a bowl of cherries.
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#39. Lady Constance swept into the room as giddy and foolish as ever. To look at her, you would think that nothing unpleasant had ever happened in the whole history of England.
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#40. When things are looking up, there's no point in looking elsewhere -Agatha Swanburne
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#41. Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.
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#42. If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.
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#43. Clearly, being anxious is a full-time and rather exhausting occupation.
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#44. It is a rare beast that gets such a funeral," Father remarked, sweating and leaning on his spade. "Lucky cat."
Personally I think the cat would have been luckier had it lived. Then again, life for a stray, unwanted thing is not always pleasant, so perhaps Father was right after all.
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#45. He may not answer me at first, but that is no matter. I have someone to talk to, at last! My words will be like sunshine and air. My voice will rain down on him, and then we shall see what glorious orchid may blossom from this shy, unwanted Weed.
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#46. They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will - but only for a brief, little while -
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#47. Listen to the fleshbody," the dropwort retorts. "A mere seventeen turns of the seasons on this ancient earth of ours, and yet he dismisses us.
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#48. [A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.
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#49. A well-organized stocking drawer is the first step toward a well-organized mind.
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