Atonement Emily Tallis Quotes

#1. The queer reminder in her smile. Like we had a meeting, she and I, at some appointed time and place, and she knew I would forget.

Emma Cline

#2. The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#3. I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.

Christina Ricci

#4. There's a superstition among falconers that a hawk's ability is inversely proportional to the ferocity of its name. Call a hawk Tiddles and it will be a formidable hunter; call it Spitfire or Slayer and it will probably refuse to fly at all.

Helen Macdonald

#5. Destruction was calm, almost content- would he next break out in song like a Disney princess?

Gena Showalter

#6. I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.

Joe Namath

#7. One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control.

Antony Beevor