Oh Ramona Quotes

#1. But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each other, fell on her ear, her eyes sought the sky, and she heard a voice saying, Majella!

Helen Hunt Jackson

#2. I feel ill with emotional indigestion: I don't think I've ever felt for Mo the kind of raw, priapic lust I feel for Ramona, but Ramona is a poisonous bloom - off-limits if I value my life.

Charles Stross

#3. I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#4. Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends with those who don't love any books? I'm not so sure of that.

Ramona Koval

#5. Close your eyes," he said, low and soft. "Look inside yourself and don't think for a second, just ... tell me, how did you feel when I kissed you?"
[...]
"Unbroken.

Ramona Wray

#6. True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the books we read introduce us to other books, as if we are at a magnificent party of the mind, being ever welcomed by new friends to join in the conversation.

Ramona Koval

#7. A person who wants to believe lives in a world full of proof.

Ramona Ausubel

#8. It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we open a book to read it again; we can never really experience it in the same way, just as we can never step into the same stream twice.

Ramona Koval

#9. It doesn't always make sense, how you go about loving someone. Sometimes loving means gathering them back, sometimes it means sending them away.

Ramona Ausubel

#10. Just say yes, Lily. Why try avoiding the unavoidable?"
Ah, why indeed!

Ramona Wray

#11. This was a season of worry and joy living side by side in Fern. They did not cancel each other out or blend to create a soft grey. Love could not temper fear and fear could not temper love.

Ramona Ausubel

#12. That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

Ramona Koval

#13. Nothing was more terrifying than what families could do to each other.

Ramona Ausubel

#14. How could you be watching me the whole year?" I asked, sensing my eyes bulging, but unable to control it. "I think I would've noticed."
His smile widened. "What, you mean, since you where always checking me out?

Ramona Wray

#15. I gathered myself in silent pain looking to leave the one way path I was never to come back to

Ramona Matta

#16. Although I had never believed in magic before, on that particular morning the world of magic became alive rather real.

Ramona Matta

#17. Say, who is this Mr. King?" "What Mr. King?" asked Ramona, walking into his trap. "Nosmo King,

Beverly Cleary

#18. You've been following me around."
"No", he denied, without flinching.
"Gosh", I scoffed, "I had no idea the woods were rigged with TV cameras. My bad."
One of the corners of his mouth twitched.

Ramona Wray

#19. How furiously she loved them and how heavy it was to carry that quantity of love, how perilous to care for those delicate bodies in the spinning world.

Ramona Ausubel

#20. The best advice you can give others is to always tell the truth.

Ramona Matta

#21. The moment we were in was a hinge - the past swung on one side, the future on the other.

Ramona Ausubel

#22. Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.

Beverly Cleary

#23. Once upon a time, tomorrow was the first day of the world.

Ramona Ausubel

#24. All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt ... The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake

Beverly Cleary

#25. Ramona grabbed the book. "It's mine. I told you it was mine!" Then she turned to Beezus and said triumphantly, "You said people didn't buy books at the library and now you just bought one!

Beverly Cleary

#26. The things that hurt us the worst in life end up being the same as those that mean to us the most.

Ramona Matta

#27. I will survive, because I have survived.

Julie Murphy

#28. The process of living is to surrender what, for a few glimmering days or years, you have been allowed to hold. But there is no such place as gone.

Ramona Ausubel

#29. Ramona chuckled as she picked up her basket and pruning shears. "You, my dear, are wasted out here where no one but the servants are subject to your wry humor and intelligence." I grinned.

L.R. Olson

#30. You sank my truck, you insulted my sauce, and you violated Ramona!

Vic