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“Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.”

Years Children Sometimes Bits Parent Promise Disappointment Step Children

Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

“Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.”

Body Religion Bits Promise Possession Corners Quitting Islands Paradise Imaginary Cheese Tempted Chimneys

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.”

Trying Two Joy Bits Struggle Tree Missing Promise Seasons Weight Violent

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.”

“Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.”

Lost Bits Expression Promise Ideals Noble Unlikely

Book:The Quest for Cosmic Justice

Source: The Quest for Cosmic Justice

“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.”

“The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”

World Firsts Made Might Lost Bits Ability Fire Magic Broken Promise Paper Illusion Lays Rose Dust Ashes Torn Magician Handful Consumed Dove Reunited Broken World

Author:Michael Chabon

“I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.”

Thinking Knows Way Said Stills I Can Bits Hurt Promise Equal Fingers Killing Lips Irony Truthful Cheeks Thumbs Bruised Being Truthful Getting Hurt Promise Me

Book:One Dance with a Duke

Source: One Dance with a Duke

“His black eyes sliced into me, and the corners of his mouth tilted up. My heart fumbled a bit and in that pause, a feeling of gloomy darkness seemed to slide like a shadow over me. It vanished in an instant but I was still staring at him. His smile wasn't friendly. It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.”

Heart Stills Feelings Eye Bits Black Darkness Trouble My Heart Promise Mouths Shadow Corners Staring Instant Friendly Pauses Slides Gloomy His Smile Black Eyes

Author:Becca Fitzpatrick

“Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?”

Ifs Whole Might Would Be Life Is Dies Bits Born Saws Streets Strange Balance Promise Standing Twenties Fifty Afternoon Advise Convenient Twenty One Standing There Helen Main Street Promise Me

Author:Ray Bradbury

“It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.”

Ifs I Can Bits Chance Promise Mates Take A Chance Gamble

Author:Melina Marchetta