Darling Quotes - Page 13

• Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

  Alice Walker

  Stones, Contradiction, Outcast

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.137, Ballantine Books

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• She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Wicked, Brunette, Type

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). “Novels”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . .

  Jean Genet

  Sweet, Princess, Numbers

  Jean Genet (1994). “Querelle”, p.84, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

  Anais Nin

  Heart, Giving, Fool

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• You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.

  James M. Barrie

  Spring, Kissing, Cleaning

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.129, 谷月社

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• I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press.

  Helen Thomas

  Daughter, Mother, Years

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• I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.

  Peter Mullan

  Hero, Kids, Potters

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• This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice.

  Isabel Allende

  Justice, Needs, Helping

  Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

  Helen Fielding

  Mother, Pardon

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.190, Pan Macmillan

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• I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara) I tried that once. (Nykyrian) And? (Kiara) Darling told me that I could never hold a job as a suicide counselor or hostage negotiator. He said my failure rate would become the stuff of legends. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Suicide, Jobs, Communication

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• My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!

  Amy Lee

  Writing, Dark, Epic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

  Robin McKinley

  What If, Tasks, Use

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• It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Mean, Love Is

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.260, A&C Black

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• For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Death, Dream

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “The Raven and Other Favorite Poems”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.

  George MacDonald

  Mother, Children, Father

  George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “The Heart of George MacDonald: A One-Volume Collection of His Most Important Fiction, Essays, Sermons, Drama, and Biographical Information”, p.31, Regent College Publishing

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• And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. The children waited for her cry of joy, but it did not come. She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still.

  James M. Barrie

  Dream, Children, Husband

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.145, Jazzybee Verlag

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• That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.

  James M. Barrie

  Echoes, Hands, Names

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.9, 谷月社

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• Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Dark, Sea

  Anne Rice (1992). “The Tale of the Body Thief”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

  William Wilberforce

  Years, Purpose, Firsts

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• I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.

  Fiona Apple

  Sweet, Crazy, Fighting

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• The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Princess, Writing

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• I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sick, Faithful, Faults

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.68, Hamilton Books

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• A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.

  Anna Godbersen

  Husband, May, Waking

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “Envy”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Men, Who I Am, Married

  "The Gardener" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2003.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown

  James M. Barrie

  Nurse, Bird, Too Late

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.29, 谷月社

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