Top 100 Nell Quotes
#1. But you can't have Nell like you can have other girls. She says she's Southern but she's not on the Grid. She's a different type altogether. Trust me on that one.
Lily King
#2. I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.
Gilbert Harding
#3. Don't be difficult, Denys," Nell chided. "All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?
Paula McLain
#4. Clearly, Nell was going crazy. (Well, she certainly had the hair for it.)
Lesley Kagen
#5. Nell Armstrong was a demi-god, he succeded travelling to space, after numerous deaths.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#6. mind Nell was writing: - ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers - paint on face only
Lily King
#7. But we have to learn to be free. We have to, Nell. Doesn't mean happy all the time, or okay all the time. It's okay not to be okay. I told you that, but I'm relearning it myself. But not being okay doesn't mean you stop living.
Jasinda Wilder
#8. Being a rollerblader for Jesus isn't a dream. It's a goal.
Rae Nell, "Rollerblader for Jesus
Ellen Morris Prewitt
#9. What's an adventure? Nell said. The word was written across the page. Then both pages filled with moving pictures of glorious things: girls in armor fighting dragons with
Neal Stephenson
#10. Hip, I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's
my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
Bret Easton Ellis
#11. Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah's father.
- Nell
Jane Steen
#12. Hoo! You're like a giant mood ring! I wonder if I can make different colors show up depending on where i touch you
- Nell Harris
Katie MacAlister
#13. Away with the joint-stools, remove the
court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save
me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let
the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.
Antony, and Potpan!
William Shakespeare
#14. In a second or two he would get up and join her in the shower he could hear running--consolidate his place with some very passionate seed-sowing and at the same time he would make Nell fall in love with him again.
Michelle Reid
#15. For so long I'd felt that what I'd been trained to do in academic writing was to press my nose to the ground, and here was Nell Stone with her head raised and swiveling in all directions. It was exhilarating and infuriating
Lily King
#16. I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.
Silas House
#17. Most women like to fuss around a wound of your past, pick at the thin scab, comfort you after they'd made it sting. Not Nell.
Lily King
#18. This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade.
Kate Morton
#19. Love is love, Nell, in whatever form or shape it comes and those of us who have found it must not let anything get in the way.
Jane Green
#20. The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.
Julia Barr
#21. Was that what Nell had done, too? Forsaken the life and the family she'd been given, to focus instead on the one she'd been without.
Kate Morton
#22. I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!
Beth Ditto
#23. Nell, I hate to be the one to have to tell you this. But your brother is hot. Like smokin' hot. Honestly, it's kind of impossible to have a vagina and not look." She
Kylie Scott
#24. You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor."
"I don't want to survive it."
"I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice ...
Kate Morton
#25. How could a man become a god?" Nell asked. "By living in an extremely pragmatic society," said Constable Moore after some thought
Neal Stephenson
#26. It's true," he smiled, "not just in love, Nell, but hopeless, there's-no-helping-this-guy kind of in love with you.
Elizabeth Reyes
#27. I'm not just falling in love with you, Nell. I'm falling into you. You're an ocean, and I'm falling in, drowning in the depths of who you are. Like you said, it's scary in a way, but it's also the most amazing thing I've ever experienced. You are the most amazing thing I've ever experienced.
Jasinda Wilder
#29. Aunt Nell used to say it was not decent to have violet eyes, that they were a telltale sign of bad nature, like ginger hair or a hunchback.
Deanna Raybourn
#30. We have had this discussion before. You are my son. I love you. I will always love you. But I also love Nell, and if you give her the chance and stop rejecting her advances, she will take you into her heart as well."
"Oh, yeah, like he's going to allow me to do that," I muttered
Katie MacAlister
#31. NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.
Caryl Churchill
#32. We can't protect her from life, Nell. You know that. She's going to get hurt someday. All we can do is love her, and be there when it happens.
Jasinda Wilder
#33. You done a number on him, Colt. He needs a doctor, or he ain't gonna make it." "He tried to rape her, Split. Then he punched her." "To be fair," Nell puts in, "he only punched me after I put a knife to his throat." Split coughs a laugh. "You what? Girl, you crazy.
Jasinda Wilder
#34. As eyebrows went, Nell's lest one was particularly vocal.
Kylie Scott
#35. He picked up the biscuit box and said, "Come on, Marlene. Back into hiding in case somebody comes looking for you, although only God knows why anybody would."
"Marlene?" Nell said.
"I'm not calling anything SugarPie," Riley said. "That's obscene.
Jennifer Crusie
#36. Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat."
I grinned. "I've noticed."
Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. "It's an equestrian term."
"Really? I thought you were talking about his ass.
Cate Tiernan
#37. You can't Nell. Just... hold my hand. I love you" - Kyle
Jasinda Wilder
#38. Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.
Jonathan Franzen
#39. Listening to your son after you've spent time with a girl will make you wonder when he became Jodie Foster in Nell.
Laurie Kilmartin
#40. One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
Oscar Wilde
#41. Years later, when they were killed in a car crash on the Farm to Market Road, and the Nell-that-never-lived died with them, Olena, numbly rearranging the letters of her own name on the envelopes of the sympathy cards she received, discovered what the letters spelled: Olena; Alone.
Lorrie Moore
#42. The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I'm sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series led to similar tears.
Paul Bloom
#43. You are allowed to make mistakes, Nell. And even though it might seem right now like one mistake is enough to derail your entire future, it's not.
Cora Carmack
#45. I don't see anyone else Nell. All I see, all I want, is you.
Lily Morton
#46. Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.
Neal Stephenson
#47. You're a lot of things, Nell Hawthorne. You're complex. You're cute. You're lovely. You're funny. You're strong. You're beautiful." She seems to be struggling with words and emotions. I keep going. "You're tortured. You're hurting. You're amazing. You're talented. You're sexy as fuck.
Jasinda Wilder
#48. Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.
Kate Morton
#49. The walk back to the subway and the subsequent ride to my apartment in Queens is long, providing me with too much time to ask myself exactly what the fuck I'm getting myself into. Nell is bad news. She's got major damage, a baggage train a mile long. And so do I.
Jasinda Wilder
#51. Drink to me! I just realized that I've slept with everyone at this table! ~Nell
Jennifer Crusie
#52. If ka is a train - and it is, a vast, hurtling mono, maybe sane, maybe not - then this nasty little lycanthrope is its most vulnerable hostage, not tied to the tracks like little Nell but strapped to the thing's very headlight.
Stephen King
#53. Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated.
Nancy Atherton
#54. Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
Alison Moyet
#55. If I bother you so much, why did you let me kiss you again in that hospital? Is the reason to screw up my head more, to see if you still have the knack for it? Because congratulations Nell, you've succeeded yet again.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#56. I thought Nell would go to bed then, but she followed me to the back of the house, where I was planning to make a cup of tea and think of where I could take them to find a decent tribe.
Lily King
#57. I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
Nell Newman
#58. Fatherhood surprised him pleasantly. As a male he assumed no unpleasant duties would accrue to him. He would be responsible for teaching the child conversational skills once it reached its teens.
Nell Zink
#59. It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.
Nell Newman
#60. I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
Nell Freudenberger
#61. Her social position at Safeway was better than it was at home.
Nell Zink
#62. She would see that in England, for reasons unknown, a woman can simultaneously be cute as a bug's ear, a serious rose gardener, and a nymphomaniac.
Nell Zink
#63. You can't hold it in forever," Colton said, apropos of nothing. "Yes, I can." I had to. "You'll go crazy. It'll come out, one way or another." "Better crazy than broken." I wasn't sure where that came from, hadn't thought it or meant to say it. "You're not broken. You're hurting.
Jasinda Wilder
#64. I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.
Nell Newman
#65. I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and then found their way back to heterosexuality as adults.
Nell Zink
#66. If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
Nell Freudenberger
#67. So many men, so little parking.
Nell Zink
#68. Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.
Victor Nell
#69. In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.
Patricia Nell Warren
#70. My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
Nell Newman
#71. When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
Nell Newman
#72. In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.
Nell Irvin Painter
#73. I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.
Nell Newman
#74. He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.
Nell Freudenberger
#75. The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.
Nell Zink
#76. Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
Nell Freudenberger
#77. You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.
Nell Carter
#78. It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper.
Nell Freudenberger
#79. The God Factor Saga is a complex blockbuster in genre of This Present Darkness meets Anne of Green Gables. This saga is a romantic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, and inspirational novel tucked into the stories of children who grow up to be men and women with Divine purpose.
J. Nell Brown
#80. I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.
Nell Zink
#81. My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.
Nell Zink
#82. In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.
Nell Blaine
#83. Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
Nell Leyshon
#84. People lived their lives, carelessly dropping information as if it were trash. The writer moved behind them like a ragpicker. She cleaned and separated their garbage, culled and collected it.
Nell Freudenberger
#85. I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.
Nell Freudenberger
#87. Meg felt her heart constrict. There was so much she wanted to say to him. Things any normal mother would say, like that a one-handed backhand is more versatile.
Nell Zink
#88. Peggy had not forgotten the intellectual and social ambitions she had started life with only a decade before. Years so weary and routine laden, they seemed like a single year that had repeated itself. She wanted to be creative and self-reliant.
Nell Zink
#89. My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.
Nell Casey
#90. What we should see is that there is none among us with nothing to give, and that giving is our purpose.
Nell Gavin
#91. If you have to be bad, be so bad sympathetic hearers just shake their heads and give up. Nobody
Nell Zink
#92. Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there's never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn't require me to write or think.
Nell Zink
#93. Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.
Nell Newman
#94. In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.
Nell Zink
#95. If a woman could win love with her body, the world would have no bastards.
Meredith Duran
#96. What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.
Nell Zink
#97. then decided maybe something was wrong with Sundays. He tried Saturday and saw about two thousand
Nell Zink
#98. It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.
Nell Newman
#99. Have you ever read the back of the Newman's Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.
Nell Newman
#100. My niche will be to support the environment through the growth of organic agriculture.
Nell Newman
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