Top 13 House On Mango Quotes
#1. A long, thin line like steam trailed from the mirror through the room and into the cup of tea. The heat from the tea was warming the egg, steamy tendrils rising, wrapping around its bright spotted shell. Already there were cracks. "Get the egg!" Raven said. Raven
Shannon Hale
#2. You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
Dorothy Parker
#3. I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
Om Puri
#4. Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran
#5. I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.
Sandra Cisneros
#6. There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
Kate Dickie
#7. The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
Peter O'Toole
#8. The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake
let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self.
Victor Hugo
#9. I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.
Delia Sherman
#10. His words filled my heart to the brim. I loved him in a way I'd never be able to express in words. He was part of me. And I was part of him. Tethered together for the rest of eternity.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#11. The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Willa Cather
#12. Yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood
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John Geddes
#13. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.
Abraham Lincoln
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