Jessica Spotswood Quotes

#1. Finns squares his shoulders - which have gotten a good deal sturdier since I last saw him. Or paid attention, at any rate. How long has it been since I actually looked? He's gotten awfully handsome; it can't have happened overnight.

Jessica Spotswood

#2. You don't have to apologize for your feelings. You can't make yourself fall in love with somebody.

Jessica Spotswood

#3. History wasn't just a collection of dates I memorized from textbooks; it was tactile and ever present

Jessica Spotswood

#4. Everybody freaks out at some point. It's how you patch yourself up that counts.

Jessica Spotswood

#5. What's the point of a book you don't enjoy?

Jessica Spotswood

#6. From my vantage point I can see the back of his neck flush pink beneath his collar. He's got freckles there, too. I wonder how many more freckle's he's got. Are they all over, or just where the sun's touched?
Good Lord, why am I thinking of Finn Belastra without his clothes on?

Jessica Spotswood

#7. I have never been this close to a man before. Something stirs deep, pulsing through my body, and its quite like the tug of magic, buts its not the magic; this is something entirely different, just between Finn and me and this moment.

Jessica Spotswood

#8. He may not have said the words, but I know my son. I saw the way he looked at you."
"How?"
"Like he'd do murder for you.

Jessica Spotswood

#9. Nowadays I find so many 'evidences' in the manuscripts, it seems authors are colluding to wipe out the evidence from the written form.

James Oinam

#10. You will eat from where you work with all your strength

Sunday Adelaja

#11. I just want to be me. Cate. Why isn't that ever enough?

Jessica Spotswood

#12. I give Finn a wicked smile. "Don't you think a peg leg would be charming? Like a pirate? The first mate of the Calypso had one, didn't he?"
"It would add a certain rakish factor. Have you got a spare eye patch?"
"Be serious, you two. Gangrene is no laughing matter," Mrs. O'Hare scolds.

Jessica Spotswood

#13. Reading is the perfect escape from whatever ails you.

Jessica Spotswood

#14. The universe has yet to take my wishes under consideration.

Jessica Spotswood

#15. Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

Margaret Sanger

#16. We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult.

Jessica Spotswood

#17. But, every once in a while, even the most normal of people act in ways that surprise themselves, doing things they might never have imagined themselves doing because they're excited, or they're obsessed, or they're in love.

Miyuki Miyabe

#18. And that better be the only wiener you put in your mouth. We do not give blow jobs so that boys will like us! Claire roars, and Connor nearly chokes on his beer

Jessica Spotswood

#19. Brother Ralston smiles fondly, only too willing to believe in my womanly frailty. If it weren't to my advantage, I'd slap the smile from his face.

Jessica Spotswood

#20. I can't see any other reason he would shut down the bookshop, unless it was to help you somehow. He loves books.' She gives me a tiny, owlish smile. 'He must love you more.

Jessica Spotswood

#21. No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.

Jessica Spotswood

#22. Tess focuses on Cyclops's placid, one-eyes face. He lost one of his black button eyes year ago, but she wouldn't let Mrs. O'Hare replace it. She said it made him more interesting, and changed his name from Barnabus.

Jessica Spotswood

#23. Damn, pity I can't bottle him, because I'd make a fortune - after I'd enjoyed him first of course. Her dirty thoughts made her blush even deeper, and she thanked the Dark Lord that the man couldn't read her mind even if her body seemed unable to stop betraying her.

Eve Langlais

#24. I prefer to believe we have some hand in our fates, that our choices matter as much as our stars.

Jessica Spotswood

#25. I didn't want to be DRUNK. IN. PUBLIC. I wanted to be drunk in a BAR. I was THROWN. into. public.

Ron White

#26. Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

Daniel Gilbert

#27. Without the armor of my anger, I feel so vulnerable. Here it is: the truth. She left me, and I have never forgiven either of us for it.

Jessica Spotswood

#28. We'll tell the nurses she's a new student with an interest in nursing. They'll be charmed.'
Tess flips her braids over her should. 'I am particularly adorable today.

Jessica Spotswood

#29. Some things are worth the danger, aren't they? I don't believe anyone should be allowed to dictate what I read or who my friends are. It gives me pleasure t know that I can thwart the Brotherhood in some small way.

Jessica Spotswood

#30. I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.

Michael Ondaatje

#31. Finn lowers his voice to a confidential whisper. 'Arabella was
my first literary infatuation. I had a mad crush on her.

Jessica Spotswood

#32. Am I wrong about love? Is it founded on mutual respect, on like meeting like, not on heart-pounding, stomach-churning nervousness and petty compliments?

Jessica Spotswood

#33. It was the winter after Mother died, and Mrs. Corbett and some of the Brother's wives came to call. They kept bleating on about how sorry they were and my poor dear mother. It was infuriating. They didn't know Mother at all; she never liked any of them. They were just nosy, noisy sheep.

Jessica Spotswood

#34. Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.

Albert Einstein

#35. I feel us tilting toward each other like trees in a strong breeze. I've been craving the sight of him for days, but now its not enough. I'm not sure who moves first. The inches between us are erased until I'm in his arms and my mouth finds his.

Jessica Spotswood

#36. I cannot imagine a life without books.
Without Father's stories of the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, without pirate stories and fairy tales and poems. Without the hope of another way, of freedom and adventure beyond what we have here and now. How dark life would be.

Jessica Spotswood

#37. The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality ... The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a work of art which possesses a lasting cultural value. The method leading to universal form is based upon calculations of measure and number.

Theo Van Doesburg

#38. We need more science in the world. Train me.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#39. I am wicked in many ways.

Jessica Spotswood

#40. We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

Booker T. Washington