China Doll Quotes

#1. He treated her like a china doll that needed to sit on a high shelf and be admired but never handled. Marietta didn't want to be admired from a distance. She wanted to be touched. Held. Embraced. By him.

Karen Witemeyer

#2. A very ex-boyfriend once described me as a little china doll. He meant it as a compliment. I didn't take it that way. There are reasons I don't date much.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. She looks like a china doll," observed Grandfather as we departed. "I will break just as easily," I muttered.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#4. The expression made her uncomfortable - the look that suggested she was a china doll, easily shattered.

Marissa Meyer

#5. Put some make-up on me and I look not unlike a china doll. Put me in a puffy pink dress and I look delicate, dainty, petite. Dammit.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. Deep under the earth, inside its cardboard coffin, shrouded in the layers of white paper, the china doll with the jagged open crevasse in its skull was crying.

Susan Hill

#7. China doll?" Wade. He spoke softly, coaxing as if she were a timid animal in need of taming. "Where are you, girl? I've come for you." His voice got stronger then faded as he moved around their cabin. "Where are you, doll?

Mary Connealy

#8. Did you know that bone china had real bones in it?" Poppy said, tapping a porcelain cheek. "Her clay was made from human bones. Little-girl bones. That hair threaded through the scalp is the little girl's hair. And the body of the doll is filled with her leftover ashes.

Holly Black

#9. The secret to a happy life is to run out of cash and air at the same time.

Bobby Layne

#10. Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

Peter Coyote

#11. A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

Gloria Steinem

#12. Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus

#13. It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

May Sarton

#14. What can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again.

Stephen King

#15. I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

Stephen Colbert

#16. There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival.

Abhijit Naskar

#17. The only advantage to wearing glasses is that you can do that dramatic removal.

Jim Gaffigan

#18. Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.

Ronee Blakley

#19. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover