Crespi Carmelite Quotes

#1. Well, what did you do, what could you do when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?

Cassandra Clare

#2. Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

Khaled Hosseini

#4. Red-heeled shoes and silk stockings clocked in black. Gray satin breeches with silver knee buckles. Snowy linen, with Brussels lace six inches deep at cuff and jabot. The coat, a masterpiece in heavy gray with blue satin cuffs and crested silver buttons, hung behind the door, awaiting its turn.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. Self-knowledge is not sold on the Rialto. And if it were, few people would buy.

Dorothy Dunnett

#6. While the builders worked on the cottage, Hugh lived in what used to be the stable but was later converted into a guesthouse, the kind you'd have if you wanted to either discourage guests or contain them in one spot while slowly depressing them to death.

David Sedaris

#7. I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.

Luke Evans

#8. Resurrection, he thought, comes not by plan or effort, and should the past ever come alive, it will be a great surprise, in which images and ritual memory will pale.

Mark Helprin

#9. Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

Alice Waters

#10. As I was sitting in my chair,
I knew the bottom wasn't there,
Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,
Ignoring little things like that.

Hughes Mearns

#11. ... she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.

Louisa May Alcott