Top 100 Quotes About Clara
#1. Dale: "No, no
curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!"
Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say."
- Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck
Tamora Pierce
#2. Stinging words! You re critical of everyone," observes Iris. "Oh, not everyone," says Clara in an offhand manner. "Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.
Gregory Maguire
#3. When Peter walked into a room he always swept it until he found Clara. And then he relaxed.
Louise Penny
#4. So many stories yet to be told, so many secrets to be unearthed. It would happen soon; Clara would make sure of it, and if Nicholas tried to evade her, well, she still had her daggers.
Claire Legrand
#5. He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even more ways of loving than there are ways of being happy, but it would take another book to explain them all.)
Francois Lelord
#6. I'll be the first to admit it - after the first episode, I wasn't sold on Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor of 'Doctor Who,' with the bewildered Clara following behind like a lost puppy, haphazardly flinging aggression around like cream pies in a 'Three Stooges' marathon.
Rob Manuel
#7. The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.
Walter Isaacson
#8. There came a time when a person had to admit they were insane. Clara reached that point yesterday. Dusting
Janelle Daniels
#9. Once I discovered the theater at Santa Clara and once I got into the theater program, I never got into specific criminal justice studies.
Michael Trucco
#10. Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.
Daniel Suarez
#11. You're powerful, Clara. Or you could be, if you would let go of your fear long enough to realize it.
Claire Legrand
#12. The Doctor: You betrayed me. You betrayed my trust, you betrayed our friendship, you betrayed everything I ever stood for. You let me down!
Clara: Then why are you helping me?
The Doctor: Why? Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?
Steven Moffat
#13. It's nothing for you to worry about."
"Whenever someone says that," Pandora said, "it always means the opposite. Along with 'It's only a scratch' or 'Worse things happen at sea.' "
"Or," Clara added glumly, 'I'm only going out for a pint.
Lisa Kleypas
#14. True, Clara's eyebrows didn't meet. But she was really too pneumatic. Whereas Fifi and Joanna were absolutely right. Plump, blonde, not too large ... And it was that great lout, Tom Kawaguchi, who now took the seat between them.
Aldous Huxley
#15. I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.
Nolan Bushnell
#16. My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#17. I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me.
Carole Landis
#18. Dr. Clara Immerwahr Haber committed suicide the same night.
Richard Rhodes
#19. You've always been the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, Clara." The backs of his fingers ran down the length of my cheek. "That still hasn't changed.
Nicole Williams
#20. Esta bien," Clara called back. They sat in silence a while longer. "You seem pretty relaxed," she said to Billy. "Pretty
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#23. The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a few months because I wanted to work in the countryside and get to know the country better.
Huey Newton
#24. I fulfilled all the requirements for Clara Barcelo to send me packing, but I preferred to think that her blindness afforded me a margin for error and that my crime - my complete and pathetic devotion to a woman twice my age, my intelligence, and my height - would remain in the dark.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#25. Wrap your heart around that the next time you go through a struggle," Clara said. "The goal of prayer is not to change God's mind
Chris Fabry
#26. Tucker: Why would you tell me now if it's against the rules?
Clara: Because I love you.
Cynthia Hand
#27. But Clara's father believed that nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds. He had a good understanding of history and knew that the future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#28. But I'm afraid you've blotted your copybook fatally with Clara.
Louis Auchincloss
#29. All right," Clara said. "We have our swordsman, so let's get moving. Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.
Kristin Cashore
#30. Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."
Clara: "What?"
Tucker: "You.
Cynthia Hand
#31. Clara will break him to bridle," Longmore said. "And if she can't cure his wild ways, who knows? Maybe he'll ride into a ditch or get run over by a post chaise, and she'll be a young widow. Do try to look on the bright side.
Loretta Chase
#32. Happy Christmas, Clara. Xx.
Yes, I know. I know that text doesn't look like much. But ... actually. First note the comma. I feel proud of his comma, and of being his comma's recipient.
India Knight
#33. Mom: 'You could have neon green hair, and it wouldn't take away how beautiful you are,' she said
Clara: 'You're my mother. You are legally required to say that'.
Cynthia Hand
#34. There I go, Clara the parrot. I belong on a pirate's shoulder.
Cynthia Hand
#35. You like me, Clara, he says. "I know you do.
Cynthia Hand
#36. Given this, I believe we have sent the wrong message to young women. We need to stop telling them, "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor." Clara
Sheryl Sandberg
#37. I chose you, Clara, and you chose me. End of story.
Shelly Crane
#38. The fable of us had been rewritten. With a spin that had exposed the truth. Instead of the happily never after we'd been dealt or with the happily ever after that was a lie, we were retelling the ending. Boone and Clara - happily even after. It was a great story. The greatest one I'd ever heard.
Nicole Williams
#39. The Doctor: I've seen bigger.
Clara: Really?
The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!
Steven Moffat
#40. He himself had once been a man of firm opinion, but now it seemed to him that he knew almost nothing, whereas the words Clara flung at him were hard as rocks.
Larry McMurtry
#41. You're very powerful, Clara," Dad says. "Even for a Triplare, you're remarkable. Your connection is strong and steady.
Cynthia Hand
#42. You can make an oyster surrender its pearl," Clara says. "All you need is persistence and a sharp enough knife.
John Langan
#43. It's been nice knowing you, Clara,
Huh? My brain still a bit shell-shocked.
Say a prayer for me, will you? He gives me a shaky grin.
Because I'm pretty sure my parents are going to kill me
Cynthia Hand
#44. His name is Christian," he calls back. "Can you believe that? We came all this way
so Clara could save a guy named Christian."
"I'm aware of the irony.
Cynthia Hand
#45. Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives.
- Clara Bayliss
John Hennessy
#46. I don't know anything about babies," he said. "No, and you've never lived any place but Arkansas," Clara said. "But you ain't stupid and you ain't nailed down. You can live other places and you can learn about children - people dumber than you learn about them.
Larry McMurtry
#47. my lovers had only ever tended to their own needs. I didn't know that romance and sex were different creatures - one of the soul, one of the body. I had no idea that two souls can feel as if they are joined in one body, as it were, no matter the shape of the bodies involved. Clara
Kelly Gardiner
#48. Don't be fooled, Clara. No one's new and shiny. Not really.
Lisa Smartt
#49. Clara was a teenage girl like any other; the object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself, a passion that through its long suppression was now asserting itself with volcanic necessity.
Zadie Smith
#50. Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.
Gail Collins
#52. When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.
Kathryn Lasky
#53. As she got closer, Clara Morrow saw Gamache do it again. He took off his half-moon reading glasses, then
Louise Penny
#54. He thought for a second, then spun to Clara. 'Did you say something cruel to the TARDIS while I was getting changed?'
'No! Of course not!'
'Did you call her fat?'
'What?'
'Because she's not fat. She's just bigger on the inside.
Tommy Donbavand
#55. Clara wore a dress of brown and cream velvet, and her feathered mask, in comparison, made her look like a sparrow
Malinda Lo
#56. No matter what her father wanted, no way was Clara going to partner up with Light Walker. He'd suggested a tarantula for a snack, for heaven's sake.
The were never, ever, ever going to work together.
Dana Marton
#57. It's about time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings. Clara was from somewhere. She had roots.
Zadie Smith
#58. She didn't believe, ever, that Jesus was going to deliver her to anything, anywhere. She said she absolutely did not believe that after two thousand years a white man was going to come back from his own lynching to help out Clara Williams or take her hand or be her friend.
Amy Bloom
#59. Clara tried to give the eulogy, but couldn't speak. Her words stuck at the lump in her throat. And so Myrna took over, holding her hand while Clara stood beside her.
Louise Penny
#60. Take Daddy's hand. And Clara, to Lila's immense relief, merely walked alongside him without claiming his offer.
Sean Platt
#61. Clara," he says quietly. "I think it's time you told me about what happened in Italy.
Cynthia Hand
#62. When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.
Ann Hood
#63. All I know is that you are the only person that has ever made me feel this way. Break my heart and mend it at the same time, make my breathing feel inadequate. You, Clara, make me want more.
Len Webster
#64. Have a nice life, Clara," he says. "You deserve to be happy.
Cynthia Hand
#65. But you knew what would happen. Why would you choose to walk right into a situation where you know the person is going to be hurtful? It kills me to see you do that, and you do it all the time. It's like a form of insanity. - Peter Morrow
You call it insanity, I call it optimism. - Clara Morrow
Louise Penny
#66. Clara looked at Maria and tried to understand what she must do so that Maria would be able to see her. But the little French girl cast all around her the bronze of infinite solitude.
Muriel Barbery
#67. Clara was that rare combination: she was sensible and sensitive.
Louise Penny
#68. But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know where my street is; I don't even know which part of town it's in, which city, which country, so maybe she'll enable me to get my bearings.
Nick Hornby
#69. Maria Clara did not faint, simply because the Filipinos do not know how to faint.
Jose Rizal
#70. The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
[Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]
Sallust
#71. Define normal, Clara?"
I laughed when I tried to figure out the true definition.
"Normal is a function on a washing machine, Alex." I said seriously.
Kathryn Morgan Parry
#72. Clara didn't carry a grudge. They were too heavy and she had too far to go.
Louise Penny
#73. She'd forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Clara's mother, who had dementia)
Louise Penny
#74. Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age.
Jane Leavy
#76. Who hit you?"
"Clara."
"Clara!"
"She whaled me one in return for upsetting you. Well, at least, that was the main reason.
Kristin Cashore
#77. Aunt Clara doesn't take her eyes off her toast. Her delicate jet earrings tremble as her knife scratches at the toast like a cat's paw, buttering every inch. Strange how even the most mundane habits of dislikable people can strike such harsh chords. I even hate the way Aunt butters.
Adele Griffin
#78. As New York careens toward the modernity of the twentieth century when Gibson girls were transforming themselves into working women, Clara Driscoll enters the male field of stained glass artistry and builds a lively, multi-national, multi-class women's department within Tiffany Studios.
Susan Vreeland
#79. You are probably the only girl on the planet that would spend so much time with Dylan Porter, who might just be the single most hottest guy on the planet, and try to get him to date other women," Clara laughed and shook her head in disbelief.
Nicole R. Locker
#80. Had I paused to reflect, I would have understood that my devotion to Clara brought me no more than suffering. Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursing those who hurt us the most.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#81. Clara: My heart doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to Tucker.
Cynthia Hand
#82. Clara," he says, my name sounding different somehow when it passes through his lips. "I'll miss you.
Cynthia Hand
#83. Tonight I want us to simply be Christian and Clara, two college students on a date.
Cynthia Hand
#84. Great. I've been at this school for less than five hours and I've already made two enemies simply by existing.
-Clara
Cynthia Hand
#85. Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
Isabel Allende
#86. After a day spent running around outside, Clara never went home without first slipping through the orchard, where she would stop to pray to the spirits of enclosure to prepare her for her return within four walls.
Muriel Barbery
#87. I'm Clara Lord. I own Bloodline's Tattoo Parlor, have a filthy mouth, no filter, and a really strong
K. Larsen
#88. I'll see you tomorrow, then, around seven,' concluded Clara. 'Do you know the address?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#89. Clara said that Billie Holiday woke up crying. Clara said that if you sing the blues, you know that if you can't make friends with grief, you've got to at least make way for it.
Amy Bloom
#90. Edmund would miss him, if no one else. And there hadn't been a single brown-haired little girl to play peekaboo with during church or an emerald-eyed beauty to watch from a distance. And he lived for the brief glimpses he had of Clara. Sweet, beautiful, loving Clara.
Sarah M. Eden
#91. His eyes shone with an anguish Clara understood well. Loss, horrible loss. Pain and anger, and the world being pulled out from beneath one's feet.
Claire Legrand
#92. It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to," Clara said. "It's just a waste.
Larry McMurtry
#93. Clara: "I won't hurt you." Be not afraid.
His eyes flashed with anger like i've come right out and called him chicken.
Cynthia Hand
#94. O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?
Harry Graham
#95. AWE coordinated with a number of attendees who couldn't make the trek out to Santa Clara to give them time on a Beam, letting them tool around the show floor, chatting with vendors and goofing around with irl attendees.
Anonymous
#96. I would lay down my life to protect you, Clara,
Cynthia Hand
#97. And Clara was devastated. She had as yet grown no hedge around the little rose garden of her extreme sensibility; she was still absurdly vulnerable. She
Louis Auchincloss
#98. Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it."
He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.
Alison McGhee
#99. Tucker: Is it okay to kiss you?
Clara: What?
Tucker: I won't get struck by lightning?
Clara: (laughs) No lightning.
Cynthia Hand
#100. I should have fought for you, Clara, even if I would have had to fight you to fight for you. I should have never let you go.
Cynthia Hand
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