Could Quotes (page 286)

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• contentment
• luck
• hand

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. Shirley Jackson

• hand
• rich
• him

He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief that if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth. With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact. His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other... Nathaniel Hawthorne

• black
• giving
• good

I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said."No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards. William Goldman

• thinking
• she
• look

I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking. John Grisham

• expectation
• greatness
• party

That's coral!" she cried in astonishment. "We must be down in the deeps of the sea!"Well, wasn't that what you wanted?" said the trout. "I thought you wished you could see the sea!"I did," said Jane, looking very surprised. "But I never expected the wish to come true."Great oceans! Why bother to wish it then? I call that simply a waste of time. But come on! Mustn't be late for the party! P. L. Travers

• ignorance
• knowledge
• chance

And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge. John Steinbeck

• sea
• school
• bird

If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet. Lewis Thomas

• comforting
• new
• saying

But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper. Ian Mcewan

• people
• lost
• saying

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost? Jodi Picoult

• time
• people
• rich

We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer. O. Henry

• moments
• she
• question

Fred started to follow, but Nita caught him in cupped hands, holding him back for a moment. "Fred! Did we do right?" Even here she couldn't keep the pain out of her question, the fear that she could have somehow have prevented his death. But Fred radiated a serene and wondering joy that took her breath and reassured her and filled her with wonder to match his, all at once. Go find out, he said. Diane Duane

• missing
• find
• findings

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing. Jodi Picoult

• nature
• personality
• world

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world. Anne Rice

• want
• sound
• hear

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear David Foster Wallace

• she
• new
• girl

I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child. Woody Allen