Emily Nelson Quotes

Often silence is the most dignified response. ~ Emily Nelson

These wrinkles are the hands of time,
The journeys I've been on
They've seen me through a thousand days,
And ev'ry victory won

These fragile hands, With exposed bones,
Are not a fearful sight
But rather, they, my faithful partners,
Rocked babies through the night

These eyes are weak, They see much less,
Than yours they've seen much more
They've guided me through birth, through death,
Through grief, through hurt, through war

These ears can hear so very little,
Yet they've learned to listen much
They perk up not for gossip now,
But for a heart to touch

Those younger often look my way,
With pity looks to give
Yet this old body doesn't mean I am dying,
But rather, that I have lived ~ Emily Nelson

The novel was simple, heartwarming, painful, and lovely, all in perfect doses." -Writer's Digest Review of Emily Nelson's The Locket ~ Emily Nelson

Home is where your soul feels free. ~ Emily Nelson

And then for a long time there is a silence that is so loud it threatens to blow my head off. ~ Emily Barroso

The crew were all of them inclined to cough and sneeze, the boys particularly, and Keynes said, "We ought put them all in the water: to keep the chest warm must be the foremost concern."
Laurence agreed without thinking and was shortly appalled by the sight of Emily bathing with the rest of the young officers, innocent of both clothing and modesty.
"You must not bathe with the others," Laurence said to her urgently, having bundled her out and into a blanket.
"Mustn't I?" she said, gazing up at him damp and bewildered.
"Oh, Christ," Laurence said, under his breath. "No," he told her firmly, "it is not suitable; you are beginning to be a young lady."
"Oh," she said dismissively, "Mother has told me all about that, but I have not started bleeding yet, and anyway I would not like to go to bed with any of them," and a thoroughly routed Laurence feebly fell back on giving her some make-work, and fled to Temeraire's side. ~ Naomi Novik

Edwards's stark presentation of the immanent consciousness of Separation enters the structure of her poems. Each word is a cipher, through its sensible sign another sign hidden. The recipient of a letter, or combination of letter and poem from Emily Dickinson, was forced much like Edwards' listening congregation, through shock and through subtraction of the ordinary, to a new way of perceiving. Subject and object were fused at that moment, into the immediate feeling of understanding. This re-ordering of the forward process of reading is what makes her poetry and the prose of her letters among the most original writing of her century. ~ Susan Howe

If another memo could possibly be sent out, this one specific to smokers: You cannot be both an unwashed bohemian and Cary Grant. ~ Emily St. John Mandel

Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives ~ Emily St. John Mandel

How we see ourselves and what we base our worth on are primary motivators throughout life. ~ Alan E. Nelson

It is finished, is never said of us ~ Emily Dickinson

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. ~ Nelson Mandela

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one. ~ Emily Post

She looked down and saw Genji on his warhorse, and it was he who was out of place, not herself. The incongruity of a samurai in her orchard made her laugh.
Her own laughter brought her back.
Coming back, she began to weep.
"My home was in Apple Valley," Emily said. "Another Apple Valley."
After a time, Genji said, "This place was yours before you ever saw it. ~ Takashi Matsuoka

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death. ~ Emily Haines

I can't figure you out, Emily." His words were tight yet even. "I don't know if I like you or if I just want to fuck you. ~ Laurelin Paige

The DC Universe Animated made for videos, which we do in cooperation with Warner Animation, are very intentionally scheduled at 3-4 a year, depending on whether or not there's a theatrical tent pole release in a given year, in which case we may choose to do four of them a year. ~ Diane Nelson

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again ~ Willie Nelson

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books. ~ Nelson Mandela

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. ~ Emily Bronte

I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games. ~ Emily Browning

Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application. ~ Ted Nelson

The.
World.
Is.
Not.
A.
Safe.
Place. ~ Jandy Nelson

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner. ~ Nelson Mandela

No wonder Satan wants to convince us that we are weak, because once a believer finds strength in prayer, the game is over for Satan. ~ Thomas Nelson

I know from doing portraits that you have to look at someone a really long time to see what they're covering up, to see their inside face, and when you do see it, and get it down, that's the thing that makes people freak out about how much a drawing looks like them. ~ Jandy Nelson

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come. ~ Nelson Mandela

I went about my house hold duties, convinced that the Grange had but one sensible soul in its walls, and that lodged in my body. ~ Emily Bronte

Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn't remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had been cut from an automobile tire, three knives in her belt. ~ Emily St. John Mandel

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that. ~ Emily Perkins

On my way out, I stop to visit with the angel and make my last wish. For Noah and Brian.
Best to bet on all the horses, dear. ~ Jandy Nelson

Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex. ~ Emily James Smith Putnam

I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right? ~ James Carl Nelson

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east. ~ Nelson Mandela

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us. ~ Emily Saliers

I awoke from this nightmare into a freezing cold motel room: the heater had broken at some point during the night, and the fan was now blowing icy air into the room.

At first I tried to keep warm under the crappy motel bedspread by thinking about the man I loved. At the time he was traveling in Europe, and was thus unreachable. I didn't know it yet, but as I lay there, he was traveling with another woman. Does it matter now? I tried hard to feel his body wrapped tightly around mine.

Next I tried to imagine everyone I had ever loved, and everyone who had ever loved me, wrapped around me. I tried to feel that I was the composite of all these people, instead of alone in a shitty motel room with a broken heater somewhere outside of Detroit, a few miles from where Jane's body was dumped thirty-six years ago on a March night just like this one.

'Need each other as much as you can bear,' writes Eileen Myles. 'Everywhere you go in the world.'

I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel - perhaps even to know - that I did not exist apart from their love and need of me.

Of this latter I felt less sure, but it seemed possible, if the equation worked both ways.

Falling asleep I thought, 'Maybe this, for me, is the hand of God. ~ Maggie Nelson

God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you. ~ Emily Dickinson

To be vulnerable, and it's only in being vulnerable that we can be fully loved. ~ Emily T. Wierenga

He knows the names of all those mountains he can see, every name of every mountain except the one he's standing on. ~ Emily Ruskovich