Ellen Claremont Quotes

The next slide is titled: 'Exploring your sexuality: Healthy, but does it have to be with the Prince of England?' She apologizes for not having time to come up with better titles. Alex actively wishes for the sweet release of death. ~ Casey McQuiston

You listen to me," she says. Her jaw is set, ironclad. It's the game face he's seen her use to stare down Congress, to cow autocrats. Her grip on his hand is steady and strong. He wonders, half-hysterically, if this is how it felt to charge into war under Washington. "I am your mother. I was your mother before I was ever the president, and I'll be your mother long after, to the day they put me in the ground and beyond this earth. You are my child. So, if you're serious about this, I'll back your play."
Alex is silent.
But the debates, he thinks. But the general.
Her gaze is hard. He knows better than to say either of those things. She'll handle it.
"So," she says. "Do you feel forever about him?"
And there's no room left to agonize over it, nothing left to do but say the thing he's known all along.
"Yeah," he says, "I do."
Ellen Claremont exhales slowly, and she grins a small, secret grin, the crooked, unflattering one she never uses in public, the one he knows best from when he was a kid ~ Casey McQuiston

But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?

Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed. ~ Ellen Ullman

Human nature. I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings. ~ Ellen Glasgow

he came into this world infected with wanderlust ~ Ellen Hopkins

Jake Wexler, standing or sitting when not lying down ~ Ellen Raskin

Grandfather used to say that when a woman got ready to fall in love the man didn't matter, because she could drape her feeling over a scarecrow and pretend he was handsome ... ~ Ellen Glasgow

It was every-happy-person-is-the-same-and-boring-and-every-miserable-person-is-miserable-in-an-interesting-way logic. (Except miserable people are boring, too.) ~ Elizabeth Ellen

We grow stronger together. ~ Ellen Krohne

But you can't stop knowing something, can you? ~ Ellen Ullman

I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing. ~ Ellen Datlow

Capitalism is also incapable of promoting sustainable development, not because it encourages technological advances that are capable of straining the earth's resources but because the purpose of capitalist production is exchange value not use value, profit not people. ~ Ellen Meiksins Wood

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ... ~ Ellen Glasgow

I hear. Nobody thinks so. But I do. Sometimes people whisper. Sometimes they yell. Sometimes they say mean things. I see more than the TV. It's my friend. I don't have any others, like the kids on Barney do. Why are people afraid of me? I don't want to hurt them. I taste only the sweet air, whooshed through tubes to help me breathe. If I'm lucky a bit of flavor comes with the wind or skin or clothes I smell. I wish my mouth would let me tell Mama I love her. Let me tell Daddy I ms him. Let me tell Shane how good I feel when I see him happy with Alex. I like when I swim because when I float, I am free. I like when I sleep because I dance when I dream. I hear, I see, I taste, I smell, I feel, I dream. ~ Ellen Hopkins

Designers provide ways into - and out of - the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. ( ... ) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design's most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading. ~ Ellen Lupton

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. ~ Ellen Tauscher

I want to look after you forever." He whispers, pressing his lips against my temple. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

Ask if they have peanut butter. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality ... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent ... ~ Ellen Glasgow

He wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her to an ordinary man. Maybe they did such a thing once in a while, knowing an ordinary man would treasure her more, love her better. Maybe they even let him keep her - for a while. ~ Ellen O'Connell

All of my friends were seeing a therapist, and I thought something was wrong with me that I didn't see a therapist. So I went to a therapist to find out why I wasn't seeing a therapist. And it turns out I'm very screwed up. Thank God I found a therapist to tell me for $125 an hour. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

Irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay. ~ Ellen Glasgow

Some celebrities, it's interesting, because they're fantastic playing a character when somebody is writing the lines for them, and they're amazing actors, but they're not as comfortable on television in front of a live audience and just having a conversation and being themselves. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

The Song [of Solomon] captures the ecstatic aspect of love that is the main subject of the whole Bible. (pg. 67) ~ Ellen F. Davis

(Humans, take note: You can refer to the Realm as "Faerie" without causing offense, but do not make the mistake of referring to its citizens as "fairies" - unless you want to be punched.) Elfhaeme ~ Ellen Kushner

There feels like no way out.
It's the oddest feeling of tranquillity and terror. She's a young, bright woman with a shining future. Me? I'm a disturbed, twisted arsehole with a black soul and a hard heart. I shouldn't risk infecting her with my demons. Yet at the same time, I'm full of hope that she could be the cure that I haven't been looking for. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny. ~ Mary Ellen Mark

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God. ~ Ellen G. White

Look at Ron and Hermione. Obstacles everywhere. But did Hermione give up on Ron when he was dating Lavender Brown? Did Ron give up on Hermione when he was knocking about with that Bulgarian Quidditch bloke? Did they let the pressure of tracking down the final few Horcruxes tear them apart? No. All the drama they went through made it all the more poignant when they finally got together. ~ Tom Ellen

Because there's no such thing as too much water under the bridge. The only problem is a refusal to deal with the water that's already gone pasts. ~ Ellen Miller

Are you ready to be fucked good and proper, baby?"
"Knock yourself out. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled. ~ Ellen Glasgow

Sudden emotional and physical shocks, bouts of depression, and fear and anxiety make a person vulnerable to possession by ripping tears in his or her barrier of spiritual protection (the aura). The djinn, having no defined form, can slip through these tears and cracks quite easily. It is believed that a person should never go to bed crying or with feelings of fear and worry, as this invites the djinn to attack during sleep. ~ Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before. ~ Ellen Greene

When our video of 'Smooth Criminal' came out, suddenly we started getting all kinds of offers. We were getting calls from TV shows like 'Ellen DeGeneres' and from record labels. ~ Luka Sulic