Top 27 Sandra Gulland Quotes
#1. If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
Tom Cruise
#2. Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.
Sarah Dessen
#3. You are thinking of the past." I put my arms around her. She'd risen from childbed too soon. "We are the past," she said.
Sandra Gulland
#4. The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head.
Sandra Gulland
#6. I lowered myself into an armchair. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust. All that remained of my life was in my lap. I sat for a time thus, as still as the mute objects that surrounded me. How little it all meant, in the end.
Sandra Gulland
#7. I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.
Laura Bates
#8. He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Orison Swett Marden
#9. You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.
Marcus Garvey
#10. Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narrow streets are mostly safe day and night - just don't try to take pictures of the women working in the windows.
David Hewson
#11. I kissed his cheek. "My King." I swooped into the courtly curtsy he'd taught me as a girl, regally kicking an imaginary train aside as I turned to go. He was laughing silently as I left. For a moment I saw that spark again. I did not say goodbye.
Sandra Gulland
#13. According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch
an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still like us.
Serge Daney
#14. The nearest inhabited village is about seven of your English miles to the left.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#15. I nodded yes. Another deceit. I have become a person I do not care for.
Sandra Gulland
#16. I play out the cards. They say: This is Heaven, this is Hell. It is one.
Sandra Gulland
#17. I confess that I enjoy this vocation, in spite of my sex. I feel a certain thrill, as if I were visiting a lover. But it is money I court, money that woos me, and the intoxicating power to earn a very great deal.
Sandra Gulland
#18. A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.
Sandra Gulland
#19. We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.
Sandra Gulland
#20. I want to go with you," I told him.
"To Egypt?" I whispered.
"Wherever you go.
Sandra Gulland
#21. We playing? Or am I just throwing you down and fucking you?
C.D. Reiss
#22. My other treasure was my virginity, and I'd thought of selling it too, years back, to the steward's hunchback son. I had refrained, holding out -I told myself- for a higher bidder. Now I fancied myself ruler of an impregnable realm.
Sandra Gulland
#23. Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear.
Sandra Gulland
#24. Now I have discovered where it is that she goes. It's the guillotine that draws her, across the river in the Place Louis Quinze- Place de la Revolution now-where daily crowds gather, the vendors selling lemonade, the children playing prisoner's base, the old ladies gossiping as the heads fall.
Sandra Gulland
#26. Don't worry about it. She keeps saying that but I don't know to not worry. I
Emma Donoghue
#27. Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.
Sandra Gulland
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