Grace Brisbane Quotes

#1. To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.

Silvio Berlusconi

#3. Holding tight, denying the fact that eventually we all had to let go.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#5. I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look.
"For crying out loud," he said. "It's a racoon."
"Poor thing," I said.
"It could be a rabid baby-killer," Cole told me primly.
"Shut up," Sam said pleasantly.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Shouldn't you be looking at other cars? You know, car shopping usually involves ... shopping."
"I don't shop very well", Grace said. "I just see what I need and get it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out?
Sam: Six years.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

Henri Bergson

#9. Grace," I said, very softly. "Say something."
Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. I wasn't sure if I was charmed by his reluctance to share a bed with a girl or insulted that, apparently, I wasn't hot enough for him to charge the mattress like a bull.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward his nose and took a sniff and then another one. His smile widened though it was still shy. It was absolutely adorable and my breath got caught somewhere in my throat.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. There are times I can't even figure myself out.

Aaliyah

#13. Two late goals, both in the last twenty minutes ...

Jon Champion

#14. The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

Hal Abelson

#15. Sam: "You - you greatly overestimate my self-control."
Grace: "I'm not looking for self-control.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. One thousand ways to say good-bye
One thousands ways to cry
One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside
I say good-bye good-bye good-bye
I shout it out so loud
Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. I broke in swiftly. "How kind of you to renew your offer, your Grace. But I am afraid I must decline. Brisbane is the man for me.

Deanna Raybourn

#18. And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it)
Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming,
so that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes understanding,
Your life is sometimes a stone in you, and then, a star.

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. I'm not looking for self-control.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential

John C. Maxwell

#21. The fog wasn't simply the steamy vapors off the bay caught and penned in by hills, but a soft breath of anonymity that shrouded and cushioned the bashful traveler.

Maya Angelou

#22. Do you feel better?" I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me.
"Yes," he said. He was still a terrible liar.
"Good," I said. I was still a fantastic one.

Maggie Stiefvater

#23. The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

Will Smith

#24. FAITH and FEAR make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

Napoleon Hill

#25. You look like a puppy. Like I'm jingling my keys and you're jumping by the door waiting for your walk"
"Woof.

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

John Pilger

#27. Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#28. It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

Kin Hubbard

#30. I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers Sam, Linger

Maggie Stiefvater

#31. Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night ...
Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits.

Maggie Stiefvater