Abigail Quotes

• Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

  Arthur Miller

  Night, Parent, Crucible

  Arthur Miller (1957). “Arthur Miller's collected plays: with an introduction”, Viking Pr

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• I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

  Steve Martin

  Brother, Player, Radio

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• Jess! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Are you all right? Are you alive? Did I hurt you? Jess? Can you speak?” – Abigail “Yeah, I can talk. But I kind of like the attention you’re giving me. You want to grope a little lower, it’d be even better.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Giving, Attention

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.201, Macmillan

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• I killed your friends.” – Abigail “And I’m not happy about that. But your head wasn’t screwed on right. It’s easy to let the enemies in and listen to them sometimes, especially when they’re pretending to be your best friends who only want the best for you. At least that’s what they claim. They’re insidious bastards, telling you what you want to hear and using your emotions to manipulate you think doing their bidding.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Enemy, Bidding

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• Unfortunately, the heart played its own tune, and it was deaf to what the head tried to tell it.’ – Abigail

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Tunes, Deaf

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• All right, everyone. Fess up. Who just shat in their pants? C'mon. Admit it." He raised his hand. I know I did and I'm wolf enough to own it." Jess ignored him. "Are you all right?" he asked Abigail. She was still a little too pale for his tastes. "I think I'm going to own Sasha's question. Definitely put me on your list.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Hands, Littles

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• Didn’t I tell you to stay out of my thoughts?’ – Abigail ‘You can beat me later. Just do it naked.’ – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Naked, Beats, My Thoughts

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• This is getting ugly.” – Abigail “Like my great-aunt’s underpants.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Aunt, Ugly, Underpants

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• [John] Adams's letters to [his wife] Abigail are wonderful. In his letters, he is loving, humorous, preachy, learned, and saucy. He speaks to her with almost complete abandon, revealing all of his sensuous and vulnerable nature.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Humorous, Wife, Letters

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• [John Adams] diary, of course, is even more revealing of his feelings. Both his letters to [his wife] Abigail and his diary tell us what he really thinks about people and events.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Thinking, People, Wife

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• In spite of all the cultural restrictions, in spite of marital or political difficulties, a strong woman continues to create and makes the world go round, such as Abigail Adams and Alexandra Bergson, Harriet Scott, and Emily Dickinson all did. History is full of women creators in the arts, many of whom created under oppressive circumstances.

  Barbara Harbach

  Strong Women, Art, Political

  Source: www.barbaraharbach.com

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• [John Adams] letters courting Abigail Smith are especially priceless. In one of 1764 he addresses her as "Miss Adorable" and says that "By the same Token that the Bearer hereof satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give him, as many Kisses, and as many Hours of your Company after 9 O'Clock as he shall please to Demand and charge them to my Account."

  Gordon S. Wood

  Kissing, Night, Order

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• [John's Adams] description of [Benjamin] Franklin in a letter to [his wife] Abigail in 1775 is laudatory. Only when he experiences all the adulation paid to Franklin in Paris does he begin to change his tune.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Paris, Wife, Tunes

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• Don’t be stupid, Jess.” – Abigail “Brains don’t exactly run in my family. Suicidal lunacy, on the other hand…” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Stupid, Suicidal

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• All right." He straightened up and seemed to be true to his promise to let it go. "I will be a man about this." That lasted until he saw the scratches on the hood from the mountain lion and the front fender, Where Abigail had dragged it off the driveway. Wailing, he went to it and sank to his knees. He sprawled over the hood and laid his head on the damaged fender. "I'm so sorry, Bets. I should of hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something. I had know idea anyone would hurt you so, baby. I swear I'll never let anyone hurt you again. Ayyy, how could they do this to you? How? Oh the humanity!

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Hurt, Sorry

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.260, Macmillan

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• Step aside, boys. I have the evil powers for this.” – Abigail “My lady got mad skills.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Skills, Evil

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• Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?” – Abigail “I can roll my tongue.” – Sundown “I’m serious, Jess.” – Abigail “So am I. Not everyone can do it. It’s a genetic thing, you know.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Evil, Tongue, Serious

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• When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

  David McCullough

  Husband, Grief, Writing

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• Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

  Leon Uris

  Lonely, Loneliness, Book

  Leon Uris (1989). “Mitla Pass”, Bantam

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• You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

  David McCullough

  Argument, Erudition, Ostentatious

  "John Adams' Legacy Revisited in HBO Series". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 15, 2008.

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• Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Hurt, Growing Up, Moving Forward

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• The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.

  Brunonia Barry

  Block, Grief, Healing

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• Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Historical, My Favorite

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• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  Abigail Breslin

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• Because you’re the one. Because I’ve never felt for anyone what I feel for you. I want a lifetime with you, Abigail. I want a home with you, family with you. I want to make children with you, raise them with you. If you truly don’t want any of that with me, I’ll give you the best I’ve got, and hope you change your mind. I just need you to tell me you don’t want it.

  Nora Roberts

  Children, Home, Giving

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Witness”, p.286, Penguin

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