Midtones Quotes

#1. Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well ... they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.

Jasper Fforde

#2. We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#3. He knew her. He knew her, this man she'd married, this man she'd committed herself to walking through this life with. He knew her. And - wonder of wonders - he was still here.

Dennis Lehane

#4. The painted forest collapsed into folds and fell soundlessly to the pavement.

Emily St. John Mandel

#5. My names were hand-me-downs too: girl, the creature, or, most often, you there.

Emma Donoghue

#6. Life comes with no guarantees. You just have to live life the fullest.

Ika Natassa

#7. Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

Monica Crowley

#9. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

William Shakespeare

#10. There is a lot of advice on baby feeding, but almost nothing on how to help crying babies.

Harvey Karp

#11. Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Charles Caleb Colton