Skeleton Leaf Quotes

#1. Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.

Kami Garcia

#2. There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.

Juliet Marillier

#3. I just wish the memories would fade. I wish the songs wouldn't bring tears. And, I wish that his name would stop making my heart tremble. I want to forget. I need to forget. I deserve to forget. I have to forget.

Melissa Brown

#4. Sometimes you come to a point where there's nothing more you can do. You love and respect each other, but it's not working. So you amicably decide to part. I don't know what the future holds: a lot of people get back together after they break up.

Drew Barrymore

#5. The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

Ted Kooser

#6. The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Stephen R. Covey

#7. This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don't mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.

J.D. Salinger

#8. I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it's crazy-making.

Rebecca Romijn

#9. One of the things I like to pack, that I take with me all the time, is my Virgensita de Guadalupe. It doesn't take much room in your suitcase. If you have one that isn't so fancy, you can use it on the plane when you're scared.

Sandra Cisneros

#10. Groucho Marx This is not a book that should be set aside lightly - it should be flung with great force.

Groucho Marx

#11. I did not want to cry any more. Instead I felt hollow, empty, as if all the meaning had been sucked out of me and I was drifting, light as a skeleton leaf, at the mercy of the four winds. I was drained of tears.

Juliet Marillier

#12. And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

Paul Horn

#14. I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic
I mean my motion.

Ezra Pound

#15. I think that yoga, it really is a process.

Bethenny Frankel

#16. Tinker Bell exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage.

J.M. Barrie

#17. One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

David Allan Coe