Malory Towers Quotes

#1. There is a constant amount of weight in the world. If one person loses weight, another must gain it. If somebody dies, an appropriate number of babies are born. Do not stand too close to a person who is losing weight. That fat is just looming, looking for a person to inhabit.

Robin M. Helm

#2. Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.

Masaoka Shiki

#3. I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Monica Ali

#4. He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

Bret Easton Ellis

#5. There exists a righteous unity between the temple and the home. Understanding the eternal nature of the temple will draw you to your family; understanding the eternal nature of the family will draw you to the temple.

Gary E. Stevenson

#6. Whether anybody was home meant everything to a house. It was more than a major fact: it was the only fact.
The family was the house's soul.

Jonathan Franzen

#7. I am happy and content with and within myself.

David Hope

#8. Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!

Kate Winslet

#9. A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. Someone else's idea of happiness was a lot easier to attain than a happiness I could not envision and didn't think I deserved.

Liza Palmer

#11. An ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

Dylan Thomas