Quotes About The Penny

#1. I reached for something to hold on to and ended up leaning against the wall behind me

Penny Reid

#2. Some other brown stuff that might not be mud into her tangled hair. All around, villagers wandered with their baskets of brightly colored eggs, looking for the perfect hiding places. Ruth Zardo sat on the bench in the middle of the green tossing

Louise Penny

#3. The only thing money really buys? ... Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.

Louise Penny

#4. Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?

Penny Matthews

#5. When put in a room with both parents, would almost always embrace the abuser.

Louise Penny

#6. Without thinking, I asked, "Are you afraid of temptation?"
He shook his head. "God, no. Just being with you, just seeing you. Fuck." He mostly swallowed the expletive, his hips rolling in a way that made me think the movement was instinctual, then added on a rush, "You breathing tempts me.

Penny Reid

#7. I can't do anything about the fact
that our dreams don't align. And since
I do love you, I want you to live yours.

Penny Reid

#8. The driver asked me where I wanted to go; I wanted to say Las Vegas but I didn't think that would go over very well

Penny Reid

#9. I'm sure you're used to the deafening sound of underwear hitting the floor every time you enter the room.

Penny Reid

#10. I hope you wander into a hornet's nest and die of an acetylcholineoverdose," I spat.
"You say the prettiest things.

Penny Reid

#11. Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.

Fulton J. Sheen

#12. I like the concept of the penny plan - not for the military because the military we have to build up. But we can save probably in many case more than a penny if you look at it. I mean, the penny plan is a pretty good plan, and it's a pretty simple plan.

Donald Trump

#13. One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of the ways to surprise the reader is to set up an expectation that you then veer away from it at the last moment. A stitch in time saves the penny earned. Or something like that.

Douglas Wilson

#14. Quinn, that's the ring from downstairs!" I hissed in a loud whisper because I was afraid of the answer. "Did you steal that ring?

Penny Reid

#15. She almost cried out with relief when she saw the eyes of the boy who had never backed down. She saw the eyes of the boy who had first stepped forward to fight Orc and later Caine and Drake and Penny. She saw Sam Temple. Her Sam Temple.

Michael Grant

#16. We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer.

Penny Reid

#17. Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn't enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and grow
for the better
working to deserve each other, was the key.

Penny Reid

#18. ... the pain of neuralgia ... she knew what they thought. That she was cold. Couldn't feel. But in fact she felt too much. Too deeply.

Louise Penny

#19. They listened with flattering attention. He was filled with enthusiasm. He began at the beginning and tried to tell it as he thought Penny would do. Half-way through, he looked down at the cake. He lost interest in the account.
"Then Pa shot him," he ended abruptly.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#20. Businesses need to define what they need so training providers can offer up the right training.

Penny Pritzker

#21. As a child psychiatrist, I knew too much about the statistics of foster care - less than one percent graduate college with a bachelor's degree, more than fifty percent of foster kids end up homeless after reaching eighteen, and most are dead by twenty-six.

Penny Reid

#22. He reminded me of the Viking god Thor, if Thor had been a reclusive federal game warden from Texas with excellent manners.

Penny Reid

#23. Unable to meet his steady gaze, I shifted my attention to the stream and cursed myself for being a terrible liar. Actually, allow me to clarify that: I'm great at lying to myself. I'm super crummy at lying to others.

Penny Reid

#24. The last thing I remember from last night was blabbing to Penny about how much I love Michael Keaton as Batman before someone must have ushered me off to bed.

Karina Halle

#25. There is a stillness that accompanies the death of a loved one. Everything becomes quieter, but it's not just sound that is dimmed. Movement, action, perception, emotion - everything is distant and removed. Maybe

Penny Reid

#26. No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.

David Hallberg

#27. The truth is that I am not a frump ... I just enjoy being laid back.

Penny Marshall

#28. Be careful. You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite.

Louise Penny

#29. Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he'd taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned, had fallen away. But

Louise Penny

#30. Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.

Louise Penny

#31. I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Louise Penny

#32. No one expects an eighty-five-year-old Navy SEAL stripper. No one. And that was the beauty of George.

Penny Reid

#33. It does not pay away a penny from you to say "am sorry", "I won't do that again"! It does not take away your integrity to appreciate the very little that you have obtained from someone, even if it's not much! True humility speaks "little is enough if God is in it.

Israelmore Ayivor

#34. E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.

Anne Fadiman

#35. [E]very comfort that the saints have in this world is an earnest penny to them of those eternal mercies that the Lord has provided for them.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#36. In America, they think that you become more powerful the more magic you use."
"Just like fossil fuels." Penny glances over at me, then snorts.
"Don't look so surprised," I say. "I know about fossil fuels.

Rainbow Rowell

#37. The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

Joseph Goebbels

#38. ... believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn't.

Louise Penny

#39. The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

Spider Robinson

#40. Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out.

Louise Penny

#41. Duane pulled a chair out for me and claimed the seat adjacent as I sat. Or, I tried to sit. I didn't know quite how to sit. Sitting suddenly felt weird. I was super-conscious of my limbs.

Penny Reid

#42. It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

Louise Penny

#43. Feminism has never just been about liberating women from men, but about freeing every human being from the straitjacket of gender oppression.

Laurie Penny

#44. There's a huge fucking missile launcher in our backyard and apparently the only thing between us and Armageddon is some guy who's afraid of a duck.

Louise Penny

#45. In trying to capture the beautiful mystery, this monk had invented written music. Not yet notes, what he'd written became known as neumes.

Louise Penny

#46. Yep. His epic good looks without succumbing to the adorable label had made him a man-unicorn in my mind. Or a merman. Or a Loch Ness Monstman. He was a mystical creature.

Penny Reid

#47. Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

Gilbert Highet

#48. Nobody prays for the heartless, nobody gives another penny for the selfish

Pierce The Veil

#49. Yeti. Big Foot. There was some old creature his grandmother had told him about. The Green Man. Half man, half tree. This was him. Beauvoir gripped his stick.

Louise Penny

#50. Right ... here's what we'll do: I'll get the kids. You take your shower. After homework and playtime, I'll challenge them to shots until they pass out. Then we'll eat the rest of their Halloween candy while binge-watching Game of Thrones.

Penny Reid

#51. Do you know why we're all happy here, monsieur? Because it's the last house on the road.

Louise Penny

#52. If you ignored a cake's personality the cake would ignore you. It'll be a rude, boring cake. I

Penny Reid

#53. Olivier looked at him blankly. But the Chief Inspector had seen that look before. It was, in fact, almost impossible to look blank. Unless the person wanted to. A blank face to the Chief Inspector meant a frantic mind.

Louise Penny

#54. There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

Louise Penny

#55. Gamache had asked not because he didn't know the answer, but because he wanted to see if Peter would lie to him. He had. And if he'd lie about that, what else had he lied about?

Louise Penny

#56. Absence makes the heart suicidal.

Penny Reid

#57. I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.

Candace Parker

#58. And why did men insist on buying the largest size? Didn't they understand the concept of sizes? Did they think buying a magnum sized condom was going to fool me into thinking their Toyota Camery was an aircraft carrier?

Penny Reid

#59. Armand Gamache found murderers by following the trail of rancid emotions. Beside

Louise Penny

#60. The Aly loafer is our modern take on the penny loafer with a subtle slit across the top. I wear loafers with everything these days- skinny jeans, long skirts and dresses.

Ashley Olsen

#61. I wondered what steps I could take to remove the word 'moisture' or even 'moist' from the English language; I really hated the way it sounded and always went out of my way to avoid saying it. I also really didn't like the word slacks,

Penny Reid

#62. When faced with your imminent death, the wise man reaches into the depths of his soul, grabs his sword, and does what is proper. The gods have a way of treating you like a two-penny whore on payday, but at least you might face the experience with the faintest bit of dignity.

Terry Mancour

#63. I know I just provide the mode of travel for these trips, and this is none of my business,

Penny Reid

#64. Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full of lies. Stories can exaggerate and offend and they always, always matter.

Laurie Penny

#65. Ambrose turned on his heel and stormed off, but before he made it through the door, Elodin burst out singing:

'He's a well-bred ass, you can see it in his stride!
And for a copper penny he will let you take a ride!

Patrick Rothfuss

#66. Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance.

Penny Reid

#67. ... worry is an emotional state that I abhor. It tends to be self-absorbed and short-sighted, and holds no purpose other than to waste energy and distract the mind from what actually matters.

Penny Reid

#68. When we were locked and loaded, he led the way and we jogged in silence.
Actually, I jogged in silence, my feet and movements soundless. Greg jogged like a large man who used to be a Marine.
Crunch.
Crash.
Smash.
Snap.
Crack.
Amateur.

Penny Reid

#69. Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.

Louise Penny

#70. I'd once overheard my daddy tell my momma that the six Winston boys had inherited their father's ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women.

Penny Reid

#71. It was horrible and senseless, and I now felt the sudden need to drink scotch, brood, and read Edgar Allen Poe or the ending to Hamlet. Maybe I would top it all off with some YouTube videos of drowning kittens while listening to Radiohead.

Penny Reid

#72. I felt dichotomously dismayed and dazedly giddy by the prospect.

Penny Reid

#73. Haven't you ever heard of an artist's muse?" the barman asked. "They all seem to either have one or want one. Me, all I want is peace and quiet.

Louise Penny

#74. To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#75. Seriously, big guy, you just need to make like a shepherd and get the flock out of here.

Penny Reid

#76. The secret o' health, happiness and success is deep breathing, buttermilk instead o' beer, your bedroom window open, a penny a week and a mind weel disciplined.

Neil Munro

#77. Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

Philippa Gregory

#78. 95% of penny stocks are junk. I show you how to find the other 5%, and do it all without bribes or vested interests. Just good quality companies.

Peter Leeds

#79. I faced the hallway. My feet and my brain discussed the situation very, very briefly, a la:
Feet: He's right there.
Brain: Go get him.
Feet: Rodger that, we're on our way.
Then my feet moved me toward the open door of the office.

Penny Reid

#80. The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

Louise Penny

#81. In a life filled with great good fortune of health, of creativity, of friends, living in safety and privilege with the loving partner. There was just one bit of misfortune in his life and that was that Peter Morrow seemed to have no idea how very fortunate he was.

Louise Penny

#82. What if the hook-up girl is using you just as much as you're using her? What if she's just having fun? This is the problem with society. When a guy sleeps around, he's sowing oats. When a girl does it, she's a hook-up girl.

Penny Reid

#83. I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

Orhan Pamuk

#84. Relationship never starts with a fist to the face, or an insult. If it did there'd be no second date. It always starts gently. Kindly. The other person draws you in. To trust them. To need them. And then they slowly turn. Little by little, increasing the heat. Until you're trapped.

Louise Penny

#85. Our will is only as strong as our body; the desire for what we need will always trump ideals.

Penny Reid

#86. DEDICATION To my computer: I couldn't have written this without you To the software developers responsible for spellcheck: You are my everyday heroes To Karen: I hope this makes you laugh and makes you proud. To my readers (all 3 of you): Thank you

Penny Reid

#87. The reason "belonging" was so potent, so attractive, so much a part of the human yearning, was that it also meant safety, and loyalty. If you were "one of us" you were protected.

Louise Penny

#88. She knew exactly what he meant. Despite their differences, because of their differences, they were a perfect mismatched set. Two sides of the same tarnished penny. An out-of-step Fred and Ginger. Vaughn was just as fucked up as she was - he was just so much better at hiding it.

Sarra Manning

#89. and volunteering in the community. Mind, body, and spirit, the cadets were told. Over and

Louise Penny

#90. Have you ever seen someone and thought to yourself, Whoa, he's hot! I'd like to screw his brains out. And then, you talk to the guy and realize someone already has?

Penny Reid

#91. What killed people wasn't a bullet, a blade, a fist to the face. What killed people was a feeling. Left too long. Sometimes in the cold, frozen. Sometimes buried and fetid. And sometimes on the shores of a lake, isolated. Left to grow old, and odd.

Louise Penny

#92. Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

Louise Penny

#93. The smith and his penny both are black.

George Herbert

#94. If we were in Victorian England I would have called him dashing;but, since we lived in the 21st century I would have to settle for the wordier GQ model hot.

Penny Reid

#95. Sorry I'm late. I got caught jaywalking and had to give the policeman a hand job or pay a seventy-five dollar fine.

Penny Reid

#96. The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

Harriet Martineau

#97. Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.

Wil Zeus

#98. She had an exciting job, several good friends, her cat, her peanut M&Ms, the mystery novels she was forever reading, and - well, me.

Tom Savage

#99. But when Marie laughed, when her mouth curved in a perfect arch, when her eyes became the combined colors of hydrogen on the visible light spectrum, when the manifestation of happiness as perfect music passed her lips, then time stopped. Just

Penny Reid

#100. I'd been on the precipice of being brave, and nothing can make a person more foolish and vulnerable than bravery.

Penny Reid