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Cormac McCarthy quote: "When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry...."
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf. Cormac McCarthy
Converts have it soft," said Mary. "They come to it late, without ever having had the Devil under the bed. They sail in and admire the stained-glass windows. All the dirty work has been done. Mavis Gallant
When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Meg Cabot quote: "But. . . you said we were going to play Parcheezi. . ."
But. . . you said we were going to play Parcheezi. . . Meg Cabot
Which of them said which has never been determined, and does not matter, since they all had the same ideas and expressed them always with the same ponderance and brassy assurance. If it was not Babbitt who was delivering any given verdict, at least he was beaming on the chancellor who did deliver it. (p. 116) Sinclair Lewis
And who are you?" cried one agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light. "I know not" said the second Shape, "I only died last night. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
One night i rode home - it was a confession - and i came staggering across the yard and i fell into the rosebush and crawled up the stairs on my hands and knees and i was sick on the floor beside my bed. In the morning I tried to tell him I was sorry, and do you know what he said? 'Why, Tom, you were just jolly'. 'Jolly,' if I did it. A drunken man didn't crawl home. Just Jolly John Steinbeck
Diana Wynne Jones quote: "Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as..."
Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them. Diana Wynne Jones
Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I... Yes. No. Mercedes Lackey
James Patterson quote: "Holy [Insert your choice of a swear word here]," said Fang..."
Holy [Insert your choice of a swear word here]," said Fang stunned. James Patterson
Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity. Neal Stephenson
I suppose next time I come home I shall find you wearing false moustaches—or are you doing so now?' Poirot winced. His moustaches had always been his sensitive point. He was inordinately proud of them. My words touched him on the raw. 'No, no, indeed, mon ami. That day, I pray the good God, is still far off. The false moustaches! Quelle Horreur!’ He tugged at them vigorously to assure me of their genuine character. 'Well, they are very luxuriant still,' I said. 'N’est-ce pas?... Agatha Christie
I can't help it. I'm just a big gasbag. I still got leftover barbeque gas." She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long far. "Excuse me," she said. Janet Evanovich
I don't know. I only think the Austrians will not stop when they have won a victory. It is in defeat that we become Christian."The Austrians are Christians-- except for the Bosnians."I don't mean technically Christian. I mean like Our Lord."He said nothing."We are all gentler now because we are beaten. How would our Lord have been f Peter had rescued him in the Garden? Ernest Hemingway
Ogbuef Ezedudu, who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve. Chinua Achebe

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