Unaccustomed Earth Quotes

#1. Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#2. It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. My priority would be to protect my family
and I would have picked whatever side could keep them safest. I hadn't thought of it as a weakness until now.

Sarah J. Maas

#4. I have the mannerisms of a mannequin. If you want to see me naked, you're going to have to buy the clothes on my body.

Jarod Kintz

#5. A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet.

Dianna Hardy

#6. The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#7. Abortion can never be safe. Any procedure where "success" means the killing of another human being can certainly not be safe.

Abby Johnson

#8. So let me get this straight
May's a virgin, lesbian, doppleganger, wyvern's mate?

Katie MacAlister

#9. Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus ... one of those two doesn't sound right.

Mitch Hedberg

#10. He drinks the life of those who come too close to him. Steals their youth. Also," she said after a pause, "he moisturizes.

Max Gladstone

#11. I was definitely a late bloomer.

Clay Matthews III

#12. I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well.

Alice McDermott

#13. One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

Virginia Woolf

#14. Our minds are so much set on Earth that we are unaccustomed to heavenly thinking. So we must work at it.

Randy Alcorn

#15. I erase the word and start over. I'm working on the "Everything we still don't" list. I'm tempted to write: everything important and also: whether Simon Snow is actually gay. And: whether I'll live forever.

Rainbow Rowell