The Hummingbird's Daughter Quotes

#1. Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.

Aaron Copland

#2. She imagined Mg. Thane's hands over her own, guiding her Folds, and squinted in the candlelight to ensure all her edges aligned and all her creases were straight.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#3. As was often the case, the most outspoken man was the least discerning.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. I thought I knew everything. There's the challenge fate loves best, isn't it? I was ripe for a fall and so ... the apple.

Megan Chance

#5. Every moment, the sunlight
is totally empty and totally full.

Rumi

#6. I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to law school because I didn't know how to earn a living otherwise. I tried to ignore the pull, but it wouldn't let me.

Elizabeth Strout

#7. Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey ... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

Casey Stengel

#8. I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#9. A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.
She would make it light enough to float away.
She reached over to open the window.
To float to her daughter.

Sarah Addison Allen

#10. Everything had to be in order for you, everything had to make sense. I hope you've learned that some things don't make sense, no matter how hard you try to make sense of them.

Angela Benson