Manec's Quotes

#1. How about peaches, dear? murmurs Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she's eating wedges of wet sunlight.

Anthony Doerr

#2. Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

Charles Spurgeon

#3. If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.

Homer

#4. Be a partaker, it's the period of the end-time harvest

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Sometimes the best person for you is the one you don't want.

Ashley Lynn Willis

#6. I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.

Jill Scott

#7. But she is angry. At Etienne for doing so little, at Madame Manec for doing so much, at her father for not being here to help her understand his absence. At her eyes for failing her. At everything and everyone. Who knew love could kill you?

Anthony Doerr

#8. It is so important to think for yourself.

Jude Morgan

#9. One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

Nick Hornby

#10. No one better say anything bad about Ian around me after today. I officially loved that son of a bitch.

Jeaniene Frost

#11. Marie-Laure hears Madame Manec: You must never stop believing.

Anthony Doerr

#12. I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.

Akira Kurosawa

#13. What are you doing a study on right now?"
"A study on the statistical probablity of love at first sight.

Jennifer E. Smith

#14. He is a ghost. He is from some other world. He is Papa, Madame Manec, Etienne; he is everyone who has left her finally coming back.

Anthony Doerr

#15. The choice, as Eddie saw it, was as simple as it was brutal: get moving and keep moving or stand in one place long enough to start thinking about what all of this meant and simply die of fright.

Stephen King

#16. The grasses toss and shimmy. The horses nicker. Madame Manec says, almost whispering, "Now that I think about it, child, I expect heaven is a lot like this.

Anonymous

#17. In London, I tended to hang with the fallen.

Ken Bruen