Said Quotes (page 208)

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• horse
• wanting
• wants

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. Henry Ford

• night
• black
• clouds

Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. Victor Hugo

• passion
• leaving
• dead

It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves. Jane Austen

• jealousy
• impressive
• you me

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up? Edward Albee

• nature
• humanity
• alien

Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human. Christopher Hitchens

• good
• parents
• red

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college, Woody Allen

• she
• cold
• stating

Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that. Diana Wynne Jones

• may
• looking forward
• forward

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you. J. R. R. Tolkien

• sister
• growing up
• she

She's growing up," Sister Evangeline said. And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same. Ann Patchett

• disappointment
• equality
• cleared

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality? Judith Butler

• shadow
• ironic
• end

The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back. George R. R. Martin

• funny
• time
• mercy

The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to escape? Neil Gaiman

• world
• hard
• sea

You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.' 'Isn't it hard to be three things at the same time?' 'What's your name?' 'Enn.' 'So you are Enn,' she said. 'And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time? Neil Gaiman

• growing old
• old
• return

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. Sylvia Plath

• him
• god
• thankful

He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually. Voltaire