Tiddely Pom Quotes

#1. WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh.
Just here,' said Eeyore.
Made of sticks?'
Yes'
Oh!' said Piglet.
What?' said Eeyore.
I just said "Oh!"' said Piglet nervously. And so as to seem quite at ease he hummed Tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.

A.A. Milne

#2. The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

Pat Conroy

#4. The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#5. See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

John Ruskin

#6. The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.

Jean Fritz

#7. It was April the season of blood oranges, emotion running like the stream behind my house upstate, turbulent and thawing. I thought about how fragile people get when they withdraw from anything, how they become bloody yolks protected only by the thinnest shell

Chris Kraus

#8. At this stage they were killers. I mean this stage in our mutually culpable history. Who

Peter Heller

#9. People like Eunice just never had quite figured out how to get along in the world. They might be perfectly intelligent, but they were subject to speckles and flushes; their purses resembled wastepaper baskets; they stepped on their own skirts.

Anne Tyler

#10. Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

Stephen Gardiner

#11. Be pissed at me 'cause I fucked you over. That's cool, you got a right, I fucked you over and it was a shit thing to do.

Kristen Ashley

#12. Tango is a truth drug. It lays bare your problems and your complexes, but also the strengths you hide from others so as not to vex them. It shows what a couple can be for each other, how they can listen to each other. People who only want to listen to themselves will hate tango.

Nina George

#13. Where's Jude?' I asked. Martin knelt to get something from his bass case, and then turned to me. His voice was strung tight, savage and bitter. 'He wanted me to give this to you.' He held up a silver case, condensation on the outside, and Jude within.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Kate Douglas Wiggin