Quotes About Lucys

#1. Etiquette was so confounding in this country. Still, looking at Mirabella-her fists balled together like small, white porcupines, her brows knitted in animal confusion-I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do? I wondered. Then I congragulated myself. This was a Stage 3 thought.

Karen Russell

#2. Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

Madeleine L'Engle

#3. You're telling stories again. You have the disease of telling stories, Roland.

Imraan Coovadia

#4. She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.

Mary Webb

#5. No matter how careful you planned or did your research, the unknowable things would rise up out of the deep and overturn everything. But that was what had drawn him in, wasn't it? The depths of what we don't know?

Sharon Guskin

#6. Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

Alain De Botton

#7. The lake water was reinventing the forest and the white moon above it, and wolves lapped up the cold reflection of the sky.

Karen Russell

#8. I like to go out to different restaurants in New York. I'm a restaurant junkie.

Amy Carlson

#9. Could we betray our parents by going back to them?

Karen Russell

#10. On Sundays, the pretending felt almost as natural as nature. The chapel was our favorite place. Long before we could understand what the priest was saying, the music instructed us in how to feel.

Karen Russell

#11. I was so inspired," she gushed. "The words just flowed out of me." So does crap.

Nenia Campbell

#12. I ignored her and continued down the hall. I had only four more hours to perfect the Sausalito. I was worried only about myself. By that stage, I was no longer certain of how the pack felt about anything.

Karen Russell

#13. You plan to be a challenge, do you?"
Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.

Sarah MacLean

#14. There is a tale of a man who found on the road a large stone bearing the words, "Under me lies a great truth." The man strained to turn the stone over and finally succeeded. On the bottom was written, "Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know?

Eknath Easwaran

#15. Achievement comes from the habit of good thinking.

John C. Maxwell

#16. We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

Muhammad Ali