Edith Little Edie Bouvier Beale Quotes

#1. Want to try it?" Dad offered, patting the arm of the chair. "Fifteen different kinds of massage. It analyzes your back muscles and makes recommendations. It also grabs and stretches the thigh and calf muscles."
"No, thanks. I prefer my furniture to keep its hands to itself.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. Happiness is seeing Bear Bluff in your rearview mirror, but you better look damn quick.

James Patterson

#3. He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.

Audrey Niffenegger

#4. You make me sound like some kind of heartless ice princess.'
'No, of course not, Belle. I must admit, you have always been uncommonly nice to every pimply-faced boy who has ever asked you to dance.'
'Thank you. I think.'
'It's probably why so many pimply-faced boys ask you to dance.

Julia Quinn

#5. It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

Christina Stead

#6. They spoke to me of people, and of humanity.
But I've never seen people, or humanity.
I've seen various people, astonishingly dissimilar,
Each separated from the next by an unpeopled space.

Fernando Pessoa

#7. I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.

Daniel Hope

#8. We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way when we were in Swat, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns.

Malala Yousafzai