Top 29 Mosca's Quotes

#1. Once again Toll-by-Night had burst out of its captivity, like a monstrous jack from an innocent-looking box. And this time Mosca was a part of it.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #40616
#2. I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.

Stephen King

Mosca's Quotes #70813
#3. You're a peach full of poison, you know that? Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #83434
#4. Just between you and me,' Mosca whispered, 'radicalism is all about walkin' on the grass.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #147976
#5. Somehow, without noticing, Mosca had become old enough to hear about such things.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #173911
#6. This was thieves' cant. Mosca was a lover of words, and she had a sneaking liking for the grimy panache of cant, and those who wore it like a ragged red cloak.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #231407
#7. Farinata and Tegghiaio, men of good blood, Jacopo Rusticucci, Arrigo, Mosca, and the others who set their hearts on doing good - where are they now whose high deeds might be-gem the crown of kings? I long to know their fate. Does Heaven soothe or Hell envenom them?

Dante Alighieri

Mosca's Quotes #291855
#8. Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Samuel Johnson

Mosca's Quotes #361667
#9. Mosca had preferred it when she could hear the edge in her companion's voice. Now she felt like someone who knows that there is a scorpion somewhere in the room but can't see where it is.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #568467
#10. I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi.

Lauryn Hill

Mosca's Quotes #655900
#11. In Mosca's experience, a 'long story' was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #788239
#12. In 'Seesaw,' I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I don't get to use ... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

Michele Lee

Mosca's Quotes #799831
#13. One of the two of us, thought Mosca, is in a lot of trouble right now. I wonder which of us it is? She isn't turning pale or plucking at her handkerchief. Oh draggles, I think it's me.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #808754
#14. Again Mosca felt she was up in the rafters, watching the mice. Little mouse, witless with fear. Running the wrong way. And here she was, just watching. Becoming a part of it by doing nothing.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1085450
#15. Fear of the Locksmiths and Skellow's thumb-cutting knife flooded Mosca but did not fill her. Somehow there was room in her core for an angry little knot of excitement, tight and fierce as a pike's grin.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1314560
#16. If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.

Gaetano Mosca

Mosca's Quotes #1327386
#17. Mosca sniffed at perfection. Perfection had no pulse and no heart.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1331124
#18. Mosca felt something enormous swell within the knotted stomach that she hid behind her fists. It seemed it must surge out of her like a wild, black wave, sweeping away stalls and strollers alike and biting the plaster from the walls.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1369387
#19. I got all my limbs," Mosca answered quickly. "I been knocked and scraped and chased about but my heart's still beating inside my hide.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1503364
#20. It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1508031
#21. Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1530612
#22. Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

Gary Burton

Mosca's Quotes #1596554
#23. He was bellowing a great many words that were new to Mosca and sounded quite interesting. She memorized them for future use.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1651507
#24. Mosca had never tasted power before. It was a little like the feeling the gin had given her, but without the bitterness and the numbness in her nose.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1756157
#25. That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca's experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1758272
#26. Irrationally, Mosca felt she should have inherited her father's intimate knowledge of Mandelion. His throwaway comments about the city should have magically meshed in her mind, giving her a faultless instinct for finding her way around.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1767021
#27. Kohlrabi's face had no expression at all, and suddenly Mosca could barely recognize him. His face had always seemed so honest, like an unshuttered window through which emotions shone without disguise. Perhaps his expressions had always been a magic-lantern display, a conjurer's trick.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1830390
#28. I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

Emily Mortimer

Mosca's Quotes #1859586
#29. Mosca had come armed with a rich pack of lies, ready to pick whichever seemed to suit Goshawk's mood best. Under the wintry draught of his gaze, however, she felt most of them wither away in her hands.

Frances Hardinge

Mosca's Quotes #1872065

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