Quotes About Strassenberg

#1. I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.
~Viktor von Strassenberg

Gwenn Wright

#2. My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

Gwenn Wright

#3. Right under the sign that said WELCOME TO GATLIN, HOME OF THE SOUTH'S MOST UNIQUE HISTORIC PLANTATION HOMES AND THE WORLD'S BEST BUTTERMILK PIE. I wasn't sure about the pie, but the rest was true.

Kami Garcia

#4. You can cower," she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. "But I will stand.

Gwenn Wright

#5. The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

Edith Stein

#6. They don't teach kidnapping at Eton, dad

Gwenn Wright

#7. And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women's rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.

Gwenn Wright

#8. I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.

Kenneth Branagh

#9. Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I am too tall and too wicked looking to capture the heart of any sensible young man.

Gwenn Wright

#10. I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.

LaToya Jackson

#11. You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

Seneca The Younger

#12. A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

Sally Schneider

#13. Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of prayerfulness and that surely she would have immediately broken out in prayer. "Doesn't matter now," he whispered and felt that he could not cry out to God.
~William Drexler the Third

Gwenn Wright

#14. It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.

Gwenn Wright

#15. Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.

Jane McGonigal

#16. The boy was painted in his pain

A.L. Jackson

#17. It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. Viktor, what?

Gwenn Wright

#19. These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady's things - hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.

Gwenn Wright

#20. It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before.
~Katherine Demure

Gwenn Wright

#21. I am an old punk.

Dee Dee Ramone

#22. Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

Gwenn Wright

#23. We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

Gwenn Wright

#24. How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

Gwenn Wright

#25. Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe

Gwenn Wright

#26. If you two had babies would they be like uber-von Strassenbergs? Would they be like eight feet tall?

Gwenn Wright

#27. Authenticity and happiness are the best beauty products out there

Katrina Kittle

#28. Time is the only commodity that matters.

Randy Pausch

#29. He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even if it ate her flesh off.

Gwenn Wright

#30. Different century. It's totally okay.

Gwenn Wright