Murdstone Quotes

#1. A passing thought occurred to me that Miss Murdstone, like the pocket instrument called a life-preserver, was not so much designed for purposes of protection as of assault. But

Charles Dickens

#2. Philip Murdstone sat considering the phrase 'depths of despair'. Its plural implied that there were, even now, levels of it he had yet to experience.

Mal Peet

#3. Fluke me, Murdstone.

Mal Peet

#4. pain that would extend down his spine into one leg or the other, like a wooden stake set aflame and thrust into him:

Hanya Yanagihara

#5. I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

Serena Williams

#6. I'm the guy who checks the weather report every day hoping for a thunderstorm.

J. Tonzelli

#7. Forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

Deb Caletti

#8. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Mortimer J. Adler

#9. A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.

Jorge Luis Borges

#10. Dare to make a wish that can change your life!

Akanksha Vir

#11. Life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

Katherine Paterson

#12. Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

Gabriel Luna