Clara Gardner Quotes

#1. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead

#2. It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!

Adolf Hitler

#3. Hasta la vista, baby, he tells me, and I shake my head and smile at how adorably dorky he can be. His Spanish only comes from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Cynthia Hand

#4. And I'm thankful, in that moment, full to the brim with gratitude that Christian is with me. He's here. My partner. My best friend.

Cynthia Hand

#5. One minute you're a happy fourteen-yearold - good at everything you try, popular, fun - the next you're a freak with wings

Cynthia Hand

#6. I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I'll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I'd do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.

Cynthia Hand

#7. Tucker: "Today we ran into a mama grizzly with two cubs at the ridge off Colter Bay and Clara sang to it to make it go away."
Mrs. Avery: You sang to it?
Tucker: Her singing is that bad.

Cynthia Hand

#8. Clara: "I won't hurt you." Be not afraid.
His eyes flashed with anger like i've come right out and called him chicken.

Cynthia Hand

#9. What we have is divine. It's beautiful and good and right. I feel it ... " He presses his his hand to his chest, over his heart. "I feel it all the time. You're in here, part of me. You're what I go to bed thinking about and what I wake up to in the morning.

Cynthia Hand

#10. Are you any good at it?"
"Pulling idiots out of the snow? I'm the best.

Cynthia Hand

#11. Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?

Steven Wright

#12. People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

Michelle Bachelet

#13. I can't leave you," he says hoarsely.
"I can't leave you either," I say, shaking my head. "I can't."
"Then don't," he says, and grabs me behind the neck and kisses me again, and the world is tilting, and everything goes black.

Cynthia Hand

#14. I can't stop thinking about how much better she'd be for him than I am.
But I also kind of want to tear her hair out.

Cynthia Hand

#15. It's been nice knowing you, Clara,
Huh? My brain still a bit shell-shocked.
Say a prayer for me, will you? He gives me a shaky grin.
Because I'm pretty sure my parents are going to kill me

Cynthia Hand

#16. Hey, Carrots," he says.

Cynthia Hand

#17. Nice tree, he says.
That boy has unexpected depth.

Cynthia Hand

#18. She watched you wrestle Toby Jameson, who probably weighs two hundred pounds, without even working up a sweat. And she said to herself, wow, that's a good wrestler, he must be an angel.

Cynthia Hand

#19. I meant it, what I said in hell. You're my glory sword, you know that? My truth.

Cynthia Hand

#20. As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's not just about work, you find that you're able to focus on other things and other people.

George Clooney