O Quotes
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“On her back in the wet sand, winded and dazed, Harper stared at the animal. It stared back, watching with a soulful gaze before nudging its wet nose at her cheek. Something unknown possessed her right then, or fear left her. Rationalising was irrelevant.
She wrapped the giant dog in a tight hug, astounded at his size but undeterred; he was so big that her hands couldn't meet. Blissfully warm and soothed, she naturally found his ears to scratch, and he relaxed against her hold, sighing in a way that begged the question: had he actually wanted her to hug him like a huge teddy bear?”
Source: The Scribemaster Chronicles
“On her bad days, she felt like a dead albatross would be more appropriate headgear for her, suiting her mood and her apparent role in life.”
Source: The Gate of Gods
“On her breast size increase during pregnancy: I even make Jordan look normal.”
“On her dark days, she screamed. On her bright days, she laughed, There was no in between, but every day she felt.”
Source: The Truth About Broken: The Unfixed Version of Self-love
“On her darkest days, the memories of the splintered floorboards crept in, along with the drip, drip, drip of old plumbing that had never been fixed. She still remembered the shouts from the others in the crew and how the mingle of voices was at first familiar and over time had grown as distant as the sea.”
Source: Forged Contracts
“On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.”
“On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl.”
“On her daughter, Jessica: Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, Does Jessica know what happens in book 4? Does Jessica know the title of book 4? And I keep saying, No! There is no point kidnapping her, taking her around back of the bike shed, and torturing her for information.”
“On her daughter: And she's going through all these changes. You know, it's just crazy times.”
“On her daughters: I have a 5 year old and I have a 1 year old.”
“ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.”
Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.
“On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.”
“On her face, a smile does not fade; because she knows that by faith, things will always fall into place. That is a woman of faith.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“On her face, a smile never fades; because she knows that by faith, things will always fall into place. That is a woman of faith.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“On her fifteenth anniversary, she lined up her thirty six dolls and beheaded them with a single swing, proudly announcing the end of her childhood.”
Source: Codex Hyperboreanus
“On her final night before she returned home, Carolina cuddled on the sofa with one of TÃa LuÃsa's dogs. Carolina loved the black mutt. His name was Siete and he had severe separation anxiety, but he always wanted to be near her.
This freedom was what she wanted. What she needed.
And she was going to get it.”
Source: Kiss Me, Mi Amor
“On her last visit, the girl stole one of his family photographs right out of the frame. He thinks this means she is starting to care about him, too. Now whenever he looks at the empty frame, Sawtooth is moved to tears. He has to stare straight up at the ceiling, a loophole that prevents fluid from falling out of the eyes, thus saving a man the embarrassment of crying like a damn fool infant.”
Source: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
“On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.”
“On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know.”
“On her ninth birthday, she'd woken up to find every tree in her mother's garden had branches full of lollipops tied to them with polka-dot strings. There were also gumdrops sitting in the centre of the flowers and overlarge pieces of rock candy laid among the blades of grass to make it seem as if the garden stones had turned to candy in the night.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“On her own, Grace could be effervescent, illuminating the entire room with her intelligence and wit. Around others she seemed to lose her luster.”
Source: Our Chemical Hearts
“On her proud soul, I tell you, I have affixed my seal above; so from your cloister I repel you, this is my kingdom, here I love!”
Source: Demon
“On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was... different.”
“On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.”
“On her [Thérèse's] part she seemed to revel in daring and shamelessness. Not a single moment of hesitation or fear possessed her. She threw herself into adultery with a kind of furious honesty, flouting danger, and as it were, taking pride in doing so.”
Source: Thérèse Raquin
“On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.”
Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
“On ‘Hey Boy’. by A.W.W. Bremont:
“[…] taken to the level of de Sade.
Structurally, the book is quite like an epic poem, with repeated stock phrases for things and people. Imagine the Iliad written via high postmodernism, though, structurally. If William S. Burroughs had taken a crack at The Metamorphosis instead of Ovid.
For a small book, this makes a helluvan impact. I can't wait to see more from Bremont in the future.”
“On Hillary Clinton, who was an ardent Goldwater supporter in 1964: 'If he'd let his wife run business, I think he'd be better off. ... I just like the way she acts. I've never met her, but I sent her a bag of chili, and she invited me to come to the White House some night and said she'd cook chili for me. Someday, maybe.'”
“On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.”
“On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.”
“on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.”
“On hindsight every failure is the best medicine, bitter but effective”
Source: Life... Love... Kumbh...
“On hirvittävän raskasta yrittää päivästä toiseen sulkea silmänsä siltä hirvittävältä tosiasialta, että minä kuolen ja kaikki ihmiset ympärilläni kuolevat myös, sekä ne harvat joita rakastan että ne lukemattomat, joita en tunne.”
Source: Ihmettä kaikki
“On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.”
“On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed any new border security requirements for refugees or students.”
“On his attempt at the Edmonton Oilers empty net: I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line.”
“On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.”
Source: Poetical Works ... With a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave. (The Globe edition.).
“On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.”
“On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.”
“On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.”
“On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: When she was very small I used to say to her, 'tell me Malala, how is the school going?' And she'd say 'it is so-so, you should change this and this...' I trusted her wisdom.”
“On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.”
“On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.”
Source: True Grit
“On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.”
Source: Crystal Nights and Other Stories
“On his face was an expression of absolute love. Melting, soul-touching, raw, unbridled love, the kind of person dies for, sacrifices and suffers for. It was the kind of love that a person would wait two hundred years to see fulfilled. It was True Love in its purest form.”
Source: True Love
“On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.”
“On his first hand he wore rings of stone,
Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.
There were rings unseen on his second hand,
One was blood in a flowing band,
One was air all whisper thin,
And the ring of ice had a flaw within.
Full faintly shone the ring of flame,
And the final ring was without name.”
“On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing
the list so I can milk it.”
“On his good days, he is as bright as the summer. He jokes and laughs, without a care in the world. On his dark days, he is a raging storm, destroying everything in his wake.”
Source: Perfectly Fractured (The Imperfect, #1).
“On his good days, he tried to teach me everything he knew."
"What about his bad days?"
"On his bad days, he generally thought he was an onion."
"That's awful."
"No, it's not. What was awful was when he thought he was a potato masher."
"Oh.”
Source: Jinx's Magic