Nona And Me Quotes

#1. I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

Penelope Lively

#2. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling stands out in my mind as the most significant innovative novel since Ulysses and The Waves. Marguerite Young has added epic grandeur to the philosophical novel. Every page gleams with the poetry of existence.

Nona Balakian

#3. Her unintended striptease was all the more sensual because Belle was lowering her stocking with agonizing slowness not because she had an audience but because she seemed to love the feel of the silk sliding along her soft skin.

Julia Quinn

#4. I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

Bill Bryson

#5. Nona had been bonkers since I could remember. Dad said it was menopause, but I had looked that up once, and I highly doubted that was the case.

Holly Hood

#6. Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Deepak Chopra

#7. I'd take 12 guys who had a strong passion for the game over 12 guys who don't respect the game.

Michael Jordan

#8. It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

Plato

#9. ...it's more meaningful to me to see women who don't necessarily need to articulate how they're feminists, they just exhibit it with everything they do.'
-Una, Twenty-five, Park Slope

Nona Willis Aronowitz

#10. In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch".

Tomie DePaola

#11. You know, Hope is also rather interesting, there's just not two of her, Dad teased Nona

Holly Hood

#12. The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

R.H. Blyth

#13. If she in fact knows magic she needs to do a spell to adjust that shitty attitude she has all of a sudden," Nona said. "I may not be a witch, but I will knock her right off that broomstick if she keeps this up.

Holly Hood

#14. To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

Barry Humphries

#15. Nona needs a very dry martini.

Holly Hood

#16. He didn't want to admit that his daughter was something more now. I raised my hand guiding one of Nona's lawn ornaments across the lawn. Making it dance.
"Hope," Dad warned from inside.
I dropped it on the lawn. "Such a party pooper.

Holly Hood

#17. Why do you paint, Nona?"...

'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world.

Kimberly Stuart

#18. Sex is physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and soulful."

SPIRITUAL SEDUCTION, Novalee Champagne

Nona Day

#19. Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation ... From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life all movement and rhythm time and light, color and mood in short, all reality in Form and Thought.

Hans Hofmann

#20. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

#21. Nona was as wacky as they came.

Holly Hood

#22. On behalf of the King, the guards requested that she stay in the palace rather than with the locals, which Alice declined as she preferred to be treated just like other participants. A

Nona J. Fairfax

#23. I feel like I've won the tournament.

Ben Crenshaw

#24. Your smile is back.' That's what Dante said.
'Smiles are like that. They come and go.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#25. Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.

Nona Mae King

#26. His touch and proximity were starting to arouse me again. Or maybe it was just the thought of Spock, I couldn't be sure.

Shaye Marlow

#27. Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

Ouida

#28. never give up on your dreams.

Nona Raines

#29. Anger had its place, it was a weapon not to be neglected, but so did patience, and Nona decided that control lay in deciding which to use and when. She

Mark Lawrence

#30. I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.

Holly Hood

#31. Nona I don't think your allowed to smoke in here.
Nona exhaled a large cloud of smoke.
Nona keeps their lights on. A little smoke won't hurt them.

Holly Hood