Pett Quotes

#1. Mr Pett, receiving her cold glance squarely between the eyes, felt as if he were being disembowelled by a clumsy amateur.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. She said softly, "You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live."
He didn't have the words. Not when what she said hit him harder and deeper than any kiss.
So he climbed into bed and held her tightly all through the night.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. When you take the bull by the horns ... what happens is a toss-up.

William Pett Ridge

#4. Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect.

Jemima Pett

#5. He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.

William Pett Ridge

#6. Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.

Daniel Black

#7. Trying is something we do when we think we can't do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will.
Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings and the Lost City

Jemima Pett

#8. Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice. And that is why the horse is still part of our lives and will live on. He was here millions of years before man came upon the earth, and if the cycle is completed, he may still be thundering across the world long after man has vanished.

Marguerite Henry

#9. Debs stood in the rain and watched him go, which I am sure she intended to make Wilkins nervous enough to leap from the car and confess, but considering the weather it struck me as excessive zeal. I got into the car and waited for her.

Jeff Lindsay

#10. Flattery was the best medicine, but even I gag on medicine.

Jemima Pett

#11. I'll never play a drum solo you can't dance to.

Gene Krupa

#12. We are lying to ourselves when we're not contradicting ourselves.

Marty Rubin