Littles Quotes - Page 4

• When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Prayer, Children

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• There is something inspiring and sublime about the little forget-me-not flower. I hope it will be a symbol of the little things that make your lives joyful and sweet.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Sweet, Flower, Sublime

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• The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Dream, Book, Dark

  Algernon Blackwood (2015). “The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories – Ultimate Horror Classics Collection: From one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories, known for The Willows, The Wendigo, Jimbo, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, John Silence, The Listener and Other Stories…”, p.43, e-artnow

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• How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death--a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire--and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather . . . What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday--if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm--would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise?

  Robert Nathan

  Beach, Wall, Fire

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• He winked at her. She giggled. And I threw up a little in my mouth

  Kiersten White

  Mouths

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• I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naively think that with their love they can change the man they love.

  Elif Safak

  Mistake, Night, Men

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• How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him

  Sarah MacLean

  Knowing, Together, Goes On

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• She yearned to see her mother again, and Robb and Bran and Rickon… but it was Jon Snow she thought of most. She wished somehow they could come to the Wall before Winterfell, so Jon might muss up her hair and call her “little sister.” She’d tell him, “I missed you,” and he’d say it too at the very same moment, the way they always used to say things together. She would have liked that. She would have liked that better than anything.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Wall, Hair

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.771, Bantam

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• You should be careful, tossing descriptors like that around in a situation like this. My ‘problem’ isn’t little. Unless you’re drawing some pretty wild comparisons. Please tell me you’re not drawing wild comparisons. Or blood-relative comparisons.

  Rachel Vincent

  Blood, Drawing, Problem

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.281, Harlequin

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• I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Laughter, Nice

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• Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.

  Jennifer Estep

  Jealous, Challenges, Band

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

  Wendell Berry

  Differences, Perfect, Movement

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.12, Counterpoint

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• Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Girlfriend, Introducing

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.237, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

  Frank Miller

  Girl, Men, Old Man

  "Fictional character: John Hartigan". "Sin City", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her well‐shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make‐believe.

  Rob Thurman

  Giving Up, Believe, Kids

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.10, Penguin

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• What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.

  Rob Thurman

  Dancing, Vision, Bed

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.14, Penguin

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• I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman’s legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It’s a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Distance, Suffering, Legs

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• Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.

  William Faulkner

  Fall, Sound, Feels

  William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). “Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

  Party, Wicked, Wizards

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• America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Hurt, Boys

  "Johnny Depp: U.S. is like a stupid puppy". edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2003.

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• Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters. "I hate change," she said. "It's so . . . jangly." "Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year?" I said. "Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?"

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hate, Kids, Years

  "Stargirl". Book by Jerry Spinelli, August 8, 2000.

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• When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.

  Mark Gatiss

  Keys, Years, White

  "Doctor Who: Night Terrors". TV Series, September 3, 2011.

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• There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

  Jeanette Winterson

  World, Way, Wonder

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Tabitha blinked innocently. "Why is your consort speaking to me without my having addressed him first?" she asked Kaia. "Have you not taught him the proper order of things?" So the little man wasn't supposed to speak to the women folk without an invitation? Screw that. "Just stay out of my head, Harpy, or I'll make sure you regret it. By the way, how's the leg?" She hissed at him. Win!

  Gena Showalter

  Regret, Winning, Men

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.92, HQN Books

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• They stood there for a while, not saying anything. Then Eli said: 'Do you want to come in?' Oskar didn't reply. Eli pulled on her T-shirt, lifted her hands, let them fall. 'I'm never going to hurt you.' 'I know that.' 'What are you thinking about?' 'That T-shirt. Is it from the trash room?' '...yes.' 'Have you washed it?' Eli didn't answer. 'You're a little gross, you know that?' 'I can change, if you like.' 'Good. Do that.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Hurt, Fall, Thinking

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