Abrigar Mary Quotes

Silence cleared her throat, fearful her voice would come out a croak. "Is she asleep?"
He blinked as if he, too, were waking from a dream, and glanced down at Mary Darling. "Aye, I'm a-thinkin' she is - she's stopped fussin' at me."
Silence felt a huge smile of relief spread over her face. "She was fussing? Oh, how wonderful!"
He shot her a look, one eyebrow arching. "Ye've taught the child to bully me, too, now?"
"Oh, no," she said hastily, embarrassed. Did he really think she bullied him? What a silly notion! ~ Elizabeth Hoyt

Forget the garden rake. Remember that time you dived over the desk at that guy in moot court? Had him by the throat in two seconds flat, that's what I heard."
"You heard wrong."
"And they suspended you for how long?" Antonia innocently asked.
"A day. And I apologized. Actually I crawled like a slug and ate dirt," Bree said ruefully. "But that was years ago, and have I pulled a stunt like that again? No, I have not. ~ Mary Stanton

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ~ Mary Wilson Little

There is no such thing as time. There is only our reaction to the inexorable progress of life. ~ Mary Balogh

Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end. ~ Scott Hahn

'cause only the Lord knows the heart of a man. ain't our job to be second-guessing. ~ Mary E. Pearson

Don't follow your heart-follow the One who made it! ~ Mary Kate

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. ~ Mary Karr

Maybe when you're about to die, secrets don't seem so important to keep. ~ Mary E. Pearson

I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved, and miserable in the separation. When it became noon, and the sun rose higher, I lay down on the grass, and was overpowered by a deep sleep. I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery, The sleep into which I now sunk refreshed me; and when I awoke, I again felt as if I belonged to a race of human beings like myself, and I began to reflect upon what had passed with greater composure; yet still the words of the fiend rung in my ears like a death-knell, they appeared like a dream, yet distinct and oppressive as a reality. ~ Mary Shelley

God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody. ~ Mary Kay Ash

But I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers. Such were my reflections as I commenced my journey; but as I proceeded, my spirits and hopes rose. ~ Mary Shelley

These memories descend out of nowhere, giving me pieces of who I was, but their significance is lost. I sigh and resume my walk, not knowing if this memory is important, or just more of the jumbled trivia of Jenna's life, like sock shopping. Maybe that is all any life is composed of, trivia that eventually adds up to a person, and maybe I just don't have enough of it yet to be a whole one. ~ Mary E. Pearson

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination. ~ Mary Wesley

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front. ~ Mary Wesley

You do not dress to please yourself; you dress to please others. ~ Mary Roach

I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me. ~ Mary Gordon

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave. ~ Mary C. Ames

Writing is the only thing that makes me feel alive. ~ Mary Sage Nguyen

He was a thoroughly bad hat, then, but that was the kind, of course, that nice women broke their hearts over. ~ Mary McCarthy

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman. ~ Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

Maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us
~ Mary Oliver

I never met a man half so true as a dog. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

I was in a temper fit to blow the lid off a kettle of boiling water. And who wouldn't be? Since sunup, I'd been doing chores. I'd milked the cow, hauled two buckets of water from the well, fed the chickens, and then fought the hens for their eggs. Now I was down on my knees, sweat-soaked and bug-bitten, yanking weeds from the vegetable patch. My hands were caked with mud, and my nose was burned as red as a strawberry. ~ Mary Downing Hahn

Say to the darkness, "We beg to differ!" ~ Mary Jo Leddy

When the Catholic Church insists that it is more sinful to use condoms in the midst of a sexually transmitted epidemic that it is for the same Church to withhold approbation of the use of condoms, it is less suprising that the sexual abuse of minors was handled unethically. ~ Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected. ~ Mary Ruefle

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. ~ Mary Augusta Ward

No, I do not believe in fate, that some spirits of the heavens weave the laws of the world to make it so. That is dogma for the foolish, for the universe is quite able to deal with such matters herself, to use her natural laws to guide matter and the spirits. Even so, souls within the world can act to naturally shift the cause of events. Magister Brennark did say that 'Nothing happens unless we make it so.' I believe you have made it so, Wolfdon, and how foolish it would be for us to ignore an opportunity that you yourself established, whether you knew you were doing so or not. ~ Mary-Jean Harris

Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I like to cover science and unexpected things happening in labs. Also, theoretical research doesn't work for my style. I need scenes and interactions. Then, humor. I'm having the most fun when I can have fun with my work. ~ Mary Roach

Ah-ha! I knew it! Penis problems"
"Well, it seems that the cause of some of my problems happens to have a penis. Well, two actually,"
"Oh sweet Mary! You're dating a guy with two dicks?"
"Ginger, no! It's about two different guys."
"Oh," she says, obviously disappointed. "Damn. That woulda been kinda cool. ~ M. Leighton

The spirit of Italy has taken over my soul. I'm relaxed, happy, warm. It's as if i'm part of the earth, not just standing out it. ~ Mary Hogan

Some last words should never be said. ~ Mary E. Pearson

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human. ~ Mary Beard