Biddy Leigh Quotes

While Mr Loveday aired my lady's sheets, I set to scratching up a supper. With not even time to change from my own damp clothes I had in one-half hour some welcoming tea steaming and hot brandy to mix a punch. Our bill of fare was the remnants of Mrs Garland's Yorkshire Pie, still sound and savory, fried bacon, and a hillock of roasted rabbits that disappeared as quickly as I made them. The last of the seed cake was eaten too, with a douse of brandy sprinkled over it to warm us.
'She will not eat those beggarly scraps,' said Jesmire, the spiteful old cat, when I took a tray of food to my lady's door. Yet I did see a slice of brandied cake disappear. I knew my mistress well enough by then, and she was a slave to her sugar tooth. ~ Martine Bailey

I think fatigue suits you, Zoya. The pallor. The shadows beneath your eyes. You look like a heroine in a novel. "
"I look like a woman about to step on your foot. "
"Now, now. You're managing remarkably well. And the smiling hasn't killed you yet."
"Yet. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Her voice was gentle, patient - why was it making him want to set fire to something? ~ Leigh Bardugo

Pick up the pace," Kaz said, eyeing his watch.
"If I spill a single drop of this, it will burn straight through the floor onto my father's dinner guests."
"Take your time. ~ Leigh Bardugo

You come back to train with Botkin. I hit big girl same as little girl."
"That's very egalitarian of you." I said, and hurried Tamar out of the stables before Botkin decided to show me just how fair-minded he could be. ~ Leigh Bardugo

We are all beautiful expressions of creative and benevolent universal energy. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I accept the blissful gifts of beautiful flowers and plants. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. ~ Leigh Bardugo

The wider you spread your fingers apart while clapping is equal to the amount of retarded you look while clapping. ~ Christy Leigh Stewart

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know? ~ Jennifer Jason Leigh

If you can't be yourself with yourself, how can you be you with other people? ~ Leigh Newman

I ran track, and basically played every sport. ~ Leigh Steinberg

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be. ~ Vivien Leigh

looking back at me is a woman holding8

a movie based on a book based on her life
and she wonders if the woman she sees
wants to die as much as she does. ~ Leigh Stein

The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated. ~ Janet Leigh

What you want and what the world needs are not always in accord, Kaz. Praying and wishing are not the same thing. ~ Leigh Bardugo

You are mine! Mine by God, and no one but no one will hurt, abuse, or dare to fucking harm what's mine, ever again. ~ Lora Leigh

Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?' ~ Vivien Leigh

You are owed nothing. Steel is earned. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Closer, drüskelle," she crooned, taunting.

He threw an arm over her, hooking her back against his chest. She let out a startled oof and shifted uneasily.

"Stop moving," he muttered. He'd been close to girls - not many, it was true - but none of them had been like her. She was indecently round.

"You're cold and clammy," she complained with a shiver. "It's like lying next to a burly squid."

"You told me to get closer! ~ Leigh Bardugo

I don't hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins. ~ Leigh Bardugo

You were not wrong to dare. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Nina strained to see over the lip of the canal and down the street. "What's taking Matthias so long? Do you think that medik gave him trouble?"
But then she saw him striding toward her across the empty square. He raised his hand in greeting. She leapt from the boat and ran to him, throwing herself into his arms.
"Drüsje," he said against her hair. "You're all right."
"Of course I'm all right. You're the one who's late."
"I thought I wouldn't be able to find you in the storm."
Nina pulled back. "Did you stop to get drunk on the way here?"
He cupped her cheek with his hand. "No," he said, and then he kissed her. "Matthias!"
"Did I do it wrong?"
"No, you did it splendidly.
But I'm the one who always kisses you first."
"We should change that," he said, and then he slumped against her.
"Matthias?"
"It's nothing. I needed to see you again. ~ Leigh Bardugo

I shivered in my kefta, comforted by the soft brush of the fox fur. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Close your eyes!"
"You can't kiss me from down there, Wylan."
"Just do it! ~ Leigh Bardugo

You can only sharpen a blade so far. In the end, it comes down to the quality of metal. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Did you wish upon a star and take the time to try to make your wish come true?
Did you try to paint the sunrise and find the gift of life within?
Did you write a song just for the joy of it?
Or write a poem just to feel the pain?
Did you find a reason to ignore the petty injustices, the spoken barbs, or the envies, jealousies and greed that crossed your path?
Did you wake up this morning and whisper inside, "Today, I'll find every reason to smile, and ignore the excuses to frown."
Today will be the day I'll whisper nothing snide, I'll say nothing cruel. I'll be kind to my enemy, I'll embrace my friends, and for this
one day, I'll forget the slights of the past.
Today will be the day I'll live for the joy of it, laugh for the fun of it, and today, I'll love whether it's returned, forsaken, or simply
ignored.
And if you did, then your heart has joined the others who have as well, uniting, strengthening, and in a single heartbeat you've created
a world of hope. ~ Lora Leigh

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. ~ Leigh Hunt

You're stupid about a lot of things, Wylan, but you are not stupid. And if I ever hear you call yourself a moron again, I'm going to tell Matthias you tried to kiss Nina. With tongue."
Wylan wiped his nose on his sleeve. "He'll never believe it."
"Then I'll tell Nina you tried to kiss Matthias. With tongue. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Patience and gentleness is power. ~ Leigh Hunt

You're very welcome, Nina Zenik. You may repay me in the customary way." "Waffles?" "Lots of them. ~ Leigh Bardugo