Higginson Quotes

The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free ~ Rachel Higginson

question. On the 20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an unknown sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position when two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air. Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from ~ Jules Verne

I found Reagan in the crowd and chose to stand next to her. I now had a place in her life, this was me stepping up to fulfill it. ~ Rachel Higginson

It's too late for that. Ivy Pierce may be trouble, but she's exactly the kind of trouble I've been looking for. ~ Rachel Higginson

Not that I could really be a sacrifice in this makeshift panic room. But I would someday. I wouldn't have to look for it, I wouldn't have to even think about it. At some point in our future an opportunity would arrive where I could step up to the plate. When the time came, I would know what to do. I would save their lives like they saved mine. I believed that with everything in me. ~ Rachel Higginson

Suddenly living in the Zombie apocalypse didn't feel like the seventh circle of hell It felt possible and full of potential ~ Rachel Higginson

Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Love is more than enough to survive with; its enough to live with. ~ Rachel Higginson

A tear slipped from eye, as I stood helpless beside Kiran. "They have done nothing wrong, except fight for the freedom you have stolen from them, from all of us!" I shouted back, unable to stay silent when my friends stood at his mercy.
"I give you freedom, the freedom to live your life as you please," Lucan challenged, tilting his chin with pride and sincerity. "I ask nothing of you, except for your loyalty. I am the king, it is the least of what I deserve," Lucan turned to address the kingdom, his argument ringing through the air.
"Then why is it only your bloodline that is allowed immortality?" I argued, taking a step forward. "Why do the rest of our people suffer from the separation of races? Why are the Shape-shifters exiled by penalty of death? What have they done? What is their crime? Are you afraid to share true immortality? Are you so scared of a people that realize they don't need a king?" I turned to face the crowd too, hoping to empower them with my words. ~ Rachel Higginson

We might be different people now. But he still knew me better than anyone else. ~ Rachel Higginson

Emma, I have had four children! Four of them! Do you understand the state of my vagina? What kind of man goes out on a date with a woman that has four children? ~ Rachel Higginson

Be real, is salt holding you at gunpoint right now? ~ Rachel Higginson

If you're wondering what's wrong with Fenway Park in the first place, you're not the only one. Fenway is special precisely because it has what modern stadiums lack: seats that, while often cramped, offer the best views in baseball; and the sense that, if you squint, that could be Smoky Joe Wood pitching to Ty Cobb out there instead of Jeff Fassero and Bobby Higginson. ~ - Webmaster Neil DeMause

Part of me, a really bad, objectifying, and dirty part of me wanted to stand them up next to each other and make them pour water over their heads while I watched. ~ Rachel Higginson

Through it all, he began to develop a relationship with Avalon. Slowly they became friends; trust blossomed between them and then the plans to save the kingdom developed naturally. If Kiran couldn't have me, he would end his life in sacrifice so that I could have freedom. I turned my head into my shoulder with the feeling flooding my body that everything Kiran did, he did it for me. His love for me, his undying resolve to live his life dedicated to me nearly swept me away with his intensity. ~ Rachel Higginson

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning. ~ Thomas W. Higginson

In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, - its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, - we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

And you're right, I do love you Eden. I will follow you into eternity, or until after this weekend when we all die gruesome, painful deaths ... But with every breath I have left, I will use it to love you. Because, Eden, I want this ... You; I want you more than life, more than anything. There was a time when I didn't think I was strong enough to face you again, or what is between us. I was too afraid of the heartache, of being shattered again. But now, it doesn't matter, nothing matters except you. I will take an eternity of hardship, of war or fighting my father, or anything, just to hold your love again. You are everything to me, my sun, my moon, the air I breathe. Nothing exists accept you. I love you. ~ Rachel Higginson

These lives we lived were a gift and precious and so short. I wanted to spend my time authentically, surrounded by people I truly loved. ~ Rachel Higginson

The Spell's on You ~ Sheila Sweeny Higginson

He pushed me beyond being delicate, into a place I had never thought I would go again. He made me strong. He demanded that I be anything but weak and broken. ~ Rachel Higginson

Miller pushed her down at his feet and pulled out his small handgun. He checked the clip and then the safety and held it menacingly across his chest. He looked like a little twelve year old gangster. It was adorable. ~ Rachel Higginson

Our story was a complex piece of art that we worked on every day. It wasn't always beautiful in the traditional sense, but it was captivating, and worthy and endless. ~ Rachel Higginson

Life is as inexorable as the sea. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I wasn't falling for it. At least that's what I kept telling myself. ~ Rachel Higginson

Hendrix pulled back from me and stared down with a deeper intensity than I had ever seen from him. "Save me from this," he pleaded with a rough voice. "I can't," I sniffled. "But I can walk through it with you. ~ Rachel Higginson

There are no mistakes, Eden, just different outcomes to our flawed expectations. ~ Rachel Higginson

Whatever happened with Nick does not define you. ~ Rachel Higginson

You were patient all this time. I had to find myself first; I had to remember who I was and become the person I was meant to be. You have been there for me patiently while I searched for you, even when I didn't know I was looking for you, you were there. ~ Rachel Higginson

Aren't you going to rape me?" I demanded a little put out that the thought hadn't even crossed his mind. "What? Do you want me to rape you?" He asked sounding more appalled than before. Good for him; this was a single guy at the end of the world with standards. ~ Rachel Higginson

Not every story has a happy ending. Some only hold a happy beginning. ~ Rachel Higginson

I couldn't let him go.
I didn't want to let him go.
Letting him go meant acknowledging that he would never come back. And I just couldn't. I needed him too much.
I loved him too much. ~ Rachel Higginson

This story is about me learning to live again after love left my life. ~ Rachel Higginson

I told you, E; we should have brought the explosives,' Xander grumbled underneath his breath in good humor. ~ Rachel Higginson

Love that is enough. Love that is big enough for two. Love that is endless enough for more. Love that is just between me and you. ~ Rachel Higginson

I would have wanted you, yes. You're gorgeous and that's just the man in me. But I meant mine, Haley. I would have wanted you to be mine. ~ Rachel Higginson

You make me smile when I've had the worst day. ~ Rachel Higginson

I just stood their frozen, waiting for my opportunity to strike. ~ Rachel Higginson

If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I could feel my tan skin, turning translucent with nerves, ~ Rachel Higginson

I had never been out of the country before. And maybe this trip didn't technically count because, well, America had officially imploded and I hadn't needed a passport to cross the border, but I was more than a little disappointed we hadn't run into a mariachi band yet. Donde esta el Zombies? ~ Rachel Higginson

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten ... but the hurt stays in the heart. ~ Ella Higginson

Yes my love, because Eden, I have loved you avidly from the first moment I saw you and I will love you completely with all that I am until the day I die. ~ Rachel Higginson

All I wanted was my money. Instead, I got you. You, the one person in the world I have to convince I'm charming, and on top of that I find out that my texts are annoying. ~ Rachel Higginson

Whatever dude, just as long as you're ok with carrying this thing out looking like Disco Barbie, it's cool with us. ~ Rachel Higginson

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers ... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. ~ Thomas W. Higginson

I'm not blaming you," he stated firmly. "I'm just trying to think. God, Kate, there are times when I think you hate me. When I think you would do anything to get rid of me. And then ... then there's last night. And all of the other times like it. I have never been more alive than when I'm with you. ~ Rachel Higginson

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

His Zen is genetic. You should meet his parents. You could rob them at gunpoint and they would still ask you to dinner and make sure you got everything valuable in the house, ~ Rachel Higginson

I always imagined the walk down the tall, wooden staircase, to be somewhat magical my first date when I was a little girl. Unfortunately, I never imagined my first date to be with someone who despised me, to a dance where I was sure to make a fool of myself, by orders from a Royal Prince who likes me but has been forbidden to talk to me; but I never had much of an imagination. ~ Rachel Higginson

I think you forget that I'm still alive. It's like you don't expect me to keep on existing now that I'm not in your life every day. ~ Rachel Higginson

And I was next to a boy I'd started thinking of as more than a stranger, more than a friend. He was somewhere in between my future and my present, I just didn't have a word for him yet. Other than safe.
He was my safety.
He was what made me feel protected. ~ Rachel Higginson

If he were cast in my Zombie version of Vampire Diaries, he so would have been Stefan, the very brother I wanted to watch die of something grotesque and gruesome. Team Daemon every single day. ~ Rachel Higginson

We're serious."
I sucked in a quick breath. This was the wrong place and time to have this conversation. "That's not what I meant."
"What did you mean then?" His hand reached over the console to intertwine with mine.
"What do you think we're doing?"
"Making out a bunch?" I dragged my gaze up to meet his and watched his lips twitch.
"That is not what we've been doing," he disagreed seriously. "We're not fifteen anymore."
He could be so exasperating. "Then what would you call it?"
"Foreplay. ~ Rachel Higginson

Seriously though, it did not seem fair that the further into the Zombie Apocalypse we walked, the scruffy-boy thing got sexier while the shaggy-girl thing basically de-evolved society. ~ Rachel Higginson

All ... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

his pounding heart and whispered, "This is forever for me. You are my forever. I don't care about your money or your job, or anything but you. ~ Rachel Higginson

Nevertheless this was life. I could wish that life was fair and that things were different, but this is what it was and I was determined to make the best of it. I needed to move forward, and fight the battles put in front of me and cherish the friendships that surrounded me. ~ Rachel Higginson

I know this freaks you out. And it should probably freak me out too. But it doesn't. It feels right. You and I feel right. So stay with me for just tonight. I promise to return you home in one piece, both inside and out. Can I have this? Just tonight? ~ Rachel Higginson

At the end of this whole Apocalypse thing, I was petitioning to have action figures made of them. ~ Rachel Higginson

I've got everything I need right here." That sentimental thought met a room full of cheesy and sarcastic "aw's" and an empty water bottle thrown at my head. No, stop guys, really. You're embarrassing me. ~ Rachel Higginson

What do you want to know, Eden? Do you want to know how upset I am that you are not going to be around anymore, that I'm going to have to disappear out of your life completely? Would you like to know how scared I am that I won't be able to protect you anymore? Maybe you want to know how terrifying it is that you are choosing to hand yourself over to the monarchy; that you are going willingly to be slaughtered and I get absolutely no say in the matter. Or maybe you wan to know how hurt I am. Is that what you want to know? ~ Rachel Higginson

We're a mess, Kate. ~ Rachel Higginson

I can't take anymore heartbreak," I confessed on a broken whisper.
"Then it's a good thing I'm not going to break your heart." He leaned down and pressed a kiss to my lips. ~ Rachel Higginson

You are everything to me, my sun, my moon, the air I breathe. Nothing exists except you. I love you. ~ Rachel Higginson

We don't have to limit how many people we love. Our hearts make room for as many people as we want to let in. ~ Rachel Higginson

Your brother is such a ~ Rachel Higginson

Excuse me, Ms. Matthews; you are going to be late for class if you don't get going. Can you read the map, or are you already lost?" the stern voice of the secretary pulled me out of my stupor.
"Um, no, I can read," I said, sheepishly, still unable to take my eyes off the mysterious boy staring back.
"Of course, you can read," she said sharply, snapping my entranced head back to reality. "Now, get to class. ~ Rachel Higginson

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. ~ Thomas W. Higginson

The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow. ~ Ella Higginson

You are the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me, Lizzy. His voice was broken and scratchy and a tear slid out from the corner of each of his eyes. ~ Rachel Higginson

I was sure that if he didn't have that damn accent I would have seen through him immediately. Oh, those Brits could be so charming and manipulative with their proper way of talking. ~ Rachel Higginson

You keep saying words like crazy and insane and risky, but Vera, the best things in life are all of those things. You can't reap big rewards if you don't take big risks. ~ Rachel Higginson

I love you more than I have loved anything or anyone. I am with you in this. I am with you forever. ~ Rachel Higginson

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ~ Thomas W. Higginson

Yes. Eden, I fell in love with you, I want to spend the rest of my life with you. But you fell in love with somebody else. And he gets to marry you. And then probably murder you. But you'd still rather be with him than with me, ~ Rachel Higginson

Sometimes I get so sucked into the drama here, I can't remember what's real and what's foreplay between two insane chefs. ~ Rachel Higginson

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I knew that I loved him. I knew that he was the only man I would ever love. ~ Rachel Higginson

And that meant STDs. Why? Because men would always be sluts. Always. ~ Rachel Higginson

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April ... The sun trembles in his own soft rays ... The grass in the meadow seems all to have grown green since yesterday ... though there is warmth enough for a sense of luxury, there is coolness enough for exertion. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

What is this?" Hendrix demanded next to me. "A pool noodle?" I looked over at the long foam purple noodle and burst into more laughter. ~ Rachel Higginson

He groaned as if frustrated and then whispered almost so quietly I didn't hear him, I'm going to keep you. ~ Rachel Higginson

Why are you so nice to me? You barely know me."
A soft smile played on his lips, "But I like what I know so far. And I am excited for what else there is to find out. ~ Rachel Higginson

Why did you come back for me? You could have died, Hendrix. He could have killed you."
He squeezed me against him until it was almost painful. I loved it.
"I will always come back for you, Reagan. Nothing will stop me from getting to you. ~ Rachel Higginson

I think you're pretty face on stage will help draw a bigger crowd. ~ Rachel Higginson

The names Lillian Smith, Eric Dazey, Jon Bullock, and Clari Higginson may mean nothing to most people but the mean the world to me. Of all my years in school, these are the teachers who challenged me to get better everyday and whole-heartedly believed in my dreams. The support they gave me was priceless and life changing. ~ Robert Cheeke

He shot me a cocky smile. "Definitely dibbs." I rolled my eyes because my brother was stupidly stubborn. "Dude, she's not the front seat of mom's old minivan. ~ Rachel Higginson

She's my mom and she's never seen me this happy before. Of course, she thinks I love you."
I braved a look at him. "And do you?"
"If I deny it, will you be able to get through dinner?"
I nodded, ignoring the thin veil of his words over the truth I didn't want to accept. "Then I don't love you. You're the most aggravating woman I've ever met. I can barely tolerate you."
"And my kids?"
"Oh, no," he chuckled. "I definitely love them."
"You do?" An aching affection flooded my body, filling in all of the cracks that fear and uncertainty had left me with. An emotional heat bubbled in my chest and wrapped my stiff limbs with something like hope.
"Yes, I do. But they agree with me about you. You aggravate us all. ~ Rachel Higginson

people again. If he had a ~ Rachel Higginson

Knowing myself… being myself was better than anything else. It was the very best thing. ~ Rachel Higginson

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. ~ Thomas W. Higginson

I'm already following you, Reagan. You already made that call. The difference between me and you, I listened. ~ Rachel Higginson

It's okay to be sad, Mummy." Lucy promised on a know-it-all whisper. "But don't be sad all day. He only went on vacation. He wouldn't leave us forever. He loves us too much. ~ Rachel Higginson

I do love you Eden, with all that I am. I don't believe there has been a more perfect love to ever exist in all of eternity, in fact. And I plan on sharing the rest of that eternity with only you ~ Rachel Higginson

The minivan sounded like Sasquatch singing Ninety-Nine Bottles of beer on the wall after drinking ninety-nine bottles of beer- not pretty. ~ Rachel Higginson