A Quotes
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“And within the house
ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
fury is lapping the walls,
dishes crack on the shelves,
a strangler needs my throat,
the daughter has ceased to eat anything.”
Source: 45 Mercy Street
“And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.”
“And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.”
Source: The Second Sex
“And without delay, turn to the Lord. Exercise all of the faith you have in Him. Let Him share your burden. Allow His grace to lighten your load.”
“And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that”
Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel
“And without even trying, she fell in love.
Not with some guy who sent her an e-mail or posted a profile. No, she'd found someone else. Someone who'd always been around but to whom she'd never really given a second thought.
Herself.”
Source: The Friday Night Knitting Club
“And without fame, a man must spend his life
Only to leave such traces upon earth
As smoke leaves in the air, or foam in the sea”
“And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.”
“And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.”
Source: Lord of Misrule: The Morganville Vampires
“And without forgivness, there is never any peace.I tell you this from the distance of many centuries. My son gave his life. I won't reply to his gift with anger, not even for those who took him from me. Those same poor, sad people will wake up tomorrow grieving their own losses, I think, if they survie at all. How can hating them heal me?”
“And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should now transform into a princess - dazzlingly beautiful, free, and made wise by her hardship.
That is not what happened.”
Source: Mr. Fox
“And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love.”
Source: Spencer Cohen, Book Two
“And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her.”
“And without understanding, could each properly love the other?”
Source: Latecomers
“And woe succeeds woe.”
“And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.”
Source: Women in Love
“And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.”
Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland
“And women like hunting witches too, doing his dirtiest work for you, it's obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together.”
Source: Taylor Swift – Viola Play Along | 2nd Edition with Online Audio | 15 Hits Including Love Story, Shake It Off, You Belong with Me, Blank Space, Back to December and More | Play Along Tracks
“And women never look at you except to catch you looking.”
Source: The Pussy
“And women who came from the sea could do anything and be anything. They felt the ceaselessness of the tides, knew the crash of the waves, and understood the power of the storms. They carried on because the ocean was infinite, an eternity of pain and wind and sun and hope and beautiful, sparkling horizon.
She could tell them about the tiny shack on the outskirts of Aguela, the sound of the waves against her mother’s fishing boat, or the scrape of a good knife against her enemy’s blade under open skies. But none of that meant freedom and power. None of that would the mermaids understand.
“These waters that you call home,” she said. “They are my home, too. And it’s about damn time for the tide to rise.”
Source: A Vision in Smoke
“And women with red shoes and green handbags were never to be trusted.”
Source: The Keeper of Lost Things
“And won’t he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for the world. Ready to one day conquer it. To travel. Get on a train. Go to work. Get blown out of her life.
Maybe she should be having that glass of wine and cigarette after all.”
Source: The Piper's Son
“And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.”
Source: Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde
“and working with the same bewitched slightly off-hand look
as the sea”
Source: Falling Awake
“And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.”
“And worse, far worse – he wasn't just kissing me. He was making me like it! And he was somehow, by some nefarious chauvinistic manly trick managing to make me kiss him back!”
Source: Storm and Silence
“And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.”
“And would could Amarantha possibly have to test me about?'
I didn't balk from that violet stare. Amarantha's whore, Lucien had once called him. 'You lied to her. About Clare. You knew very well what I looked like.'
Rhysand sat up in a fluid movement and braced his forearms on his thighs. Such grace contained in such a powerful form. I was slaughtering in the battlefield before you were even born, he'd once said to Lucien. I didn't doubt it. 'Amarantha plays her games,' he said simply, 'and I play mine. It gets rather boring down here, day after day.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -”
Source: The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
“And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?”
Source: Collected Poems
“And would'st thou evil for his good repay?”
Source: The Iliad ...
“And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name”
“And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.”
“And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.”
“And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.”
“And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?”
“And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.”
“And write about it, Goddess, and about it!”
“And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.”
“And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
With pens of adamant on plates of brass.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
“And writers say, as the most forward bud
Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
Even so by love the young and tender wit
Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
Losing his verdure even in the prime,
And all the fair effects of future hopes.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
“And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus on crafting jokes and trying to make the writing really sharp. At the same time I did improv comedy in college, and that helped with understanding the performance aspect of comedy, you know, because it's different when you improv something vs. when you write it and they're both kind of part of my process now.”
“And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.”
“And writing is not enough for me to declare:
I found my presence filling in absence
and whenever I searched for myself I found others
and whenever I searched for them I found only myself
the stranger
Am I a crowd of one?”
“And y'all scared I can tell
That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell.”
“And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.”
Source: The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1
“And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“and ye shall know the truth, and you still want to be free? aghaghaghaghaghaghaghaghaghaghaghaghaghaghaghagha”
“And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit.”
“And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this!”