Top 65 Esme's Quotes
#1. They could only stare at Esme's shoes and wonder why she as wearing footwear that was so violent and impractical.
Lemony Snicket
#2. You'll learn there is another rule. Esme's obeyed it all her life." "And what's that?" "When you break rules, break 'em good and hard," said
Terry Pratchett
#3. All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it is not, for many, an easy one to remember.
Hanya Yanagihara
#4. Her grandmother keeps announcing that Esme will never find a husband if she doesn't change her ways. Yesterday, when she said it at breakfast, Esme replied "Good" and was sent to finish her meal in the kitchen.
Maggie O'Farrell
#5. Why do these dumb fucks keep guns around the house? They make the world as ruinous as they imagine it is.
Esme Raji Codell
#6. Laughter! I remember laughter. I did laughter a lot, he thought. These colours spinning around them are matching their mirth, changing from moment to moment, flaring out as they run and throw and catch. There are silver joy-waves rippling about them
Esme Ellis
#7. In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief
Laura Goode
#8. We see a lot of gory deaths on 'Game of Thrones.'
Esme Bianco
#9. Well, you know Esme. She wasn't one for that kind of thing - never one to push herself forward*
* She hadn't ever needed to. Granny Weatherwax was like the prow of a ship. Seas parted when she turned up.
Terry Pratchett
#10. It is only the things that we don't do that ever hold us back.
Briar Kit Esme
#11. My only excuse is that I have no reputation myself, and I am thereby well aware of its ephemeral value. Reputation is worthless.
Sebastian Bonnington's love letter to Esme Rawlings
Eloisa James
#12. Was it really necessary? Was it absolutely necessary to steal that sugar bowl from Esme Squalor?
Lemony Snicket
#13. Laughter can be a form of forgiveness - a gift, cathartic.
Briar Kit Esme
#14. Magrat said she could never make the wand do that and Esme said no because, she wasted time wishing for thinges to happen instead of working out how to make them happen.
Terry Pratchett
#15. Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was needed.
Terry Pratchett
#16. This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable. - Esme from Sister Mischief
Laura Goode
#17. Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished
Esme Raji Codell
#18. The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.
Olivia Williams
#19. Just remember that you can't always do everything, but you can always do everything you can.
Briar Kit Esme
#20. It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together.
Wendy Percival
#21. We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.
Maggie O'Farrell
#22. Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it.
Esme Wynne-Tyson
#23. I bet that dog-walking trollop called the cops on us. - Esme from Sister Mischief
Laura Goode
#24. On the other hand, I have no project. My project is to live until I die.
Esme Weijun Wang
#25. Insolence was spreading like butter across his red and pitted face.
Esme Ellis
#26. Children don't expect words to be used to create false trails. Words to Esme are plain and simple with no hidden codes, no duplicitous underlife. He thinks of the conversations with his wife and how little of what they said was without encryption.
Glenn Haybittle
#27. Something's going on in Cordell's room, but I'm not sure I want to know what it is.
Esme Raji Codell
#28. It's not like I want to get discovered, exactly, the way you hear actresses getting picked off at diners. It's more about my own road to discovery like pecking my way out of a shell. I just want to roll deep with a pack of talented bastards. Doesn't everybody? - Esme from Sister Mischief
Laura Goode
#29. I did start out in witchcraft to get boys, to tell you the truth.'
'Think I don't know that?'
'What did you start out to get, Esme?'
Granny stopped, and looked up at the frosty sky and then down at the ground.
'Dunno,' she said at last.'Even, I suppose.
Terry Pratchett
#30. I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.
Esme Bianco
#31. Marry me, Esme. Please. Honor me. I will honor you as your husband never did. Our marriage would be a remedy against sin, if anyone could ever call it a sin to love you.
Sebastian Bonnington to Esme Rawlings
Eloisa James
#32. The end of times?" said Nanny. "Look, Tiff, Esme tol' me to say, if you want to see Esmerelda Weatherwax, then just you look around. She is here. Us witches don't mourn for very long. We are satisfied with happy memories - they're there to be cherished.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.
Esme Bianco
#34. The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.
Esme Raji Codell
#35. Esme Rawlings is as intelligent as she is dissolute.
Eloisa James
#36. Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God ...
Esme Wynne-Tyson
#37. You are my wickedest mischievous sisters, most beloved friends of my mind. - Esme from Sister Mischief
Laura Goode
#38. Reality, my strange and precious one. Reality is fabric. Fabric is
reality. And your reality here is far easier to live with than where I
was on the other side. So that's why I don't want to go back, and
why you wouldn't like it.
Esme Ellis
#39. The simplest of tasks can create the happiest of moments.
Briar Kit Esme
#40. If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.
Esme Raji Codell
#41. The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.
Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
#42. Esme said no because, she wasted time wishing for thinges instead of working out how to make them happen. What
Terry Pratchett
#43. Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique ... and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books and writers together in a literary trinity - a bookish triumvirate.
Briar Kit Esme
#45. I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.
Esme Raji Codell
#46. I've got so much to do! Go play with Edward. I have to get to work."
She dashed out of the room, yelling,"Esme!" as she disappeared.
Stephenie Meyer
#47. He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights, wired in series, must all go out if even one bulb is defective.
J.D. Salinger
#49. ...'Loving children is what teachers do for extra credit. It's not the main assignment.'
'Seems to me that the extra credit is more important than the main assignment,' observed Cordelia.
Esme Raji Codell
#50. You're saying she doesn't do her work? So take care of your business! Fail her like a normal kid. The failure will be between me and my daughter, then. You won't like it if her failure is between me and you.
Esme Raji Codell
#51. Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief
Laura Goode
#52. And when you go to God's house, it ain't got to be no fashion show. You just come as you are.
Esme Raji Codell
#53. Oh, thank you, Darrell Sikes, for being wild and nasty and rude and getting me out of The Program and making me Normal Dumb, not Special Dumb. I owe you one, Darrell Sikes.
Esme Raji Codell
#54. It's not our job to be liked(teachers)", I reminded her. "Its our job to help them be smart(students)". Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ass if they like us? Sometimes I can hardly stand them!
Esme Raji Codell
#55. It isn't all just kismet. Some of it is serendipity. Some of it is sagacity. A lot of it is doing the right thing simply because we can. The difference between those who don't and those who do, is that those who do, do. It doesn't get any more complicated than that.
Briar Kit Esme
#56. Ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking.
Esme Wynne-Tyson
#57. But certain people just think it's their job to freak out. As long as they're freaking out, they feel busy, like they must be doing work. Getting upset is force, but no motion. Unless we are moving the children forward, we aren't doing work.
Esme Raji Codell
#58. I tend not to share things unnecessarily with those I despise.
Esme Raji Codell
#59. A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!
Esme Raji Codell
#60. Nanny Ogg was about to say: What? You mean not compliant and self-effacing like what you is, Esme? But she stopped herself. You didn't juggle matches in a fireworks factory.
Terry Pratchett
#61. He set a finger beneath her chin and gently forced her head up so she was looking in his eyes. "Good night, my little Esme. I look forward to continuing this tomorrow. Rest well. You'll need it for everything I have planned.
Tracy Anne Warren
#62. The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?
Esme Raji Codell
#63. You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.
Esme Bianco
#64. I like sugar, be it candy, this season's pumpkin chocolate chip bars, or wine. Sugar is bad for me. It just sits on my tummy, causing my middle child Esme to ask if we are having a fourth baby. Rude!
Alicia Coppola
#65. What would you have done?" Esme demanded. "Screamed for help, of course. But it would never occur to you to call for help. You don't just think you're a warrior. You think you're a whole army.
Loretta Chase
