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Quotes For Girls (page 38)

There were dumplings on the train, sold by grim men and women with deep lines cut into their faces by years and worry and hunger and misery. This was the provinces, the outer territories, the mysterious China that had sent millions of girls and boys to Canton to earn their fortunes in the Pearl River Delta. Matthew knew all their strange accents, he spoke their strange Mandarin language, but he was Cantonese, and these were not his people. Those were not his dumplings. Cory Doctorow
…in joy he will invariably dance; when he is in love he will dance, for the czardas helps him to explain to the girl he loves exactly what he feels for her. And she understands. One czardas will reveal to a Hungarian village maid the state of her lover’s heart far more clearly than do all the whisperings behind hedges in more civilized lands. Baroness Orczy
Come on, girl. Don't cry," whispered Frank. "Why not? I can be miserable if I want to. You don't need to try and make it go away. It shouldn't go away. It's just as sad as it ought to be and I'm not going to hide from what's true just because it hurts." Cee wasn't sobbing anymore, but the tears were still running down her cheeks. Toni Morrison
A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek. Ernest Hemingway
Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you! Georgette Heyer
The story was a sleeping girl in a narrow bed. Dark hair thick and wild and twistedlike seaweed across the pillow... Bella's Lullaby Stephenie Meyer
Louisa May Alcott quote: "the little girls wore a grave, troubled expression, as if..."
the little girls wore a grave, troubled expression, as if sorrow was a new experience to them. Louisa May Alcott
Only a girl like thiscan know what's happened to you. If she were here she wouldreach out her arms towardsyou now, and touch youwith her absent handsand you would feel nothing, but you would betouched all the same. Margaret Atwood
Rosie had been a little girl with a dead dad, and there was no getting around that or over that. Even a drunk dad, even an asshole, was better than a dead dad, which shouldn't reflect on you but did, and left a cannon hole in your heart. [p. 121] Anne Lamott
The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge. H. G. Wells
Gerard Way quote: "The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night,..."
The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time. Gerard Way
But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do. Emily Giffin
Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person. Franny was among the first of the girls to get off the train, from a car at the far, northern end of the platform. Lane spotted her immediately, and despite whatever it was he was trying to do with... J. D. Salinger
imagine thatit were given back to me to bethe child who knew departure would be sweet, the boy who drew square-rigged ships, the girl who knewtruck routes from ottawa to mexico, the me who found a door in latin verseand made a map out of hexameters. Marilyn Hacker
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry."
A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry. Laurell K. Hamilton

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