Quotes About Branwell

#1. there is no shortage of reading material in this house. Charlotte is an excellent writer, but Mr. Shakespeare is better, and if it's Branwell's wickedness you like, Papa says we may read Lord Byron in moderation." Emily

Lena Coakley

#2. Branwell told a cruel lie in silence.

E.L. Konigsburg

#3. But no one was prouder of me or happier for me than Branwell, and I think he would not have been prouder or happier if he had won himself. And I don't know anyone anywhere who has a friend like that.

E.L. Konigsburg

#4. Indeed, it was not unusual for the dais to be littered with panties and boxer shorts after one of Branwell's talks at the MLA." (loc 4363)

James Hynes

#5. Was that Will?" she said finally.
Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested. "It seems possible ... "
For once Charlotte could only find herself in agreement.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.

Markus Zusak

#7. Fortune, how fickle and how vain thou art,

Patrick Branwell Bronte

#8. Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

David Easton

#9. What is more gentle than a wind is summer?

John Keats

#10. Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

Duane Michals

#11. Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things.

Cassandra Clare

#12. How dark are all the ways of god to man!

Euripides

#13. There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.

Beck

#14. I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

Queen Latifah

#15. In the next world I could not be worse than I am in this.

Patrick Branwell Bronte

#16. As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.

Cassandra Clare

#17. All I felt when I saw Vanessa was this weird sensation I used to get when I was a kid, like when you're at a friend's house and your mum comes to get you before you're ready.

Jojo Moyes

#18. And the worst way to treat someone hoping to be heard is to walk in with a clipboard and a checklist.

Nishant Kothary

#19. It is like a dream. I didn't sleep for two nights because I was under so much pressure. That elusive medal is probably what has kept me going. I had none of the self-doubts which have bothered me in the past. I was totally positive.

Michaela Dorfmeister

#20. There is no excellence in archery without great labour.

Maurice Thompson

#21. Eggs," said Henry dreamily, looking at his plate. "I do love eggs. I could eat them all day.

Cassandra Clare

#22. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

Rory Bremner

#23. Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will's voice as he read.

Cassandra Clare

#24. And then you run. Because the only thing worse than her being gone is that you're still here.

Tricia Rayburn

#25. I'm interested in the ideas that sound a little crazy, such as radical life extension, curing cancer, being able to create a simulation of the human brain and map every neuron.

Bill Maris

#26. God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west ... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

Cassandra Clare

#28. Life is a downward journey; all concur in saying it carries us downhill.

Patrick Branwell Bronte

#29. I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing.

Patrick Branwell Bronte

#30. I want it to stop," he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over.

Cassandra Clare

#31. In all my past life I have done nothing either great or good.

Patrick Branwell Bronte

#32. Henry's breath hissed out through his teeth. That ba-bad man, he finished, with a quick glance at Cecily, who rolled her eyes.

Cassandra Clare

#33. He has become a worm. That is what I am telling you."
"I don't suppose it would be possible," said Henry into the silence, "to, er, step on him?

Cassandra Clare