Peterkins Estate Quotes

#1. I wondered if your eye color meant you saw the world differently. If the world saw you differently as a result.

Tahereh Mafi

#2. When you move so quickly from innocence to a world of fear, pain and loss, it's as if the flesh of your heart and mind gets cut away, piece by piece, like slices taken off a ham. Finally, there is nothing left but bone.

Leymah Gbowee

#3. In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who is leading who?" Are the moms emulating the daughters? In which case we're going backwards - that's not how it goes - the mothers teach the daughters how to be. It's a very strange thing to me.

Laura Benanti

#4. Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

Maria Weston Chapman

#5. I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it.

Tig Notaro

#6. Settling for not-so-bad sounds okay. But, you know, it's hard when you tried so much to make life really good.

Abigail Tarttelin

#7. Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

Joseph Pilates

#8. Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

James Ellis

#9. Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.

Kathryn Harvey

#10. If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've got to get into the problem first.

Colin Firth