Dellarobia Quotes

#1. Less the same in her own home, which she'd had no chance to clean. If neither of these qualified in Hester's mind as valid church-excused emergencies, Dellarobia

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. Certain ramshackle aspects of Dellarobia had also gone undercover, it seemed, just like the snow-covered barns. Some defects lurked, but for now her way seemed clear. She'd made plans.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. Dellarobia watched the void of this man where once there had been wonder, and she despaired of her future. In such a short time he had relieved her of a lifetime of illusions, and already she missed them.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. He could construct defeat from any available material and live inside it, but for once Dellarobia didn't go there with him. She was going ahead.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. Sometimes things that make the least sense are the most true. Such is the mystery of life.

Kylie Scott

#7. When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob A. Riis

#8. We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

V.S. Pritchett

#9. I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.

MaryJanice Davidson

#10. The only real mistake here is ignoring the inner voice.

Del Close

#11. CERN is a Monozukuri.

Mehmet Kececi

#12. At 16, I would wear clothes that hid my body; now I've found clothes that fit me rather than cover me. I'm not skinny, but I'm healthy, and you have to embrace what you've been given.

Ella Henderson

#13. Where do we find allies?"
Father Yarvi smiled. "Among our enemies, where else?

Joe Abercrombie

#14. The journey from shame to resentment is the shortest on there is.

Josh Bazell

#15. When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

Bryan Fuller

#16. Meet me at a place where the sun is silent.

Shawn Milke

#17. Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

Paulo Coelho

#18. The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

Jean Baudrillard

#19. How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

Donald Justice

#20. Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

Marco Rubio