Poppies Quotes - Page 5

• Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Book, Sleep, Doctors

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.211, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mistake, Feel Better, Men

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.256, Macmillan

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• Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mother, Kissing, Hairballs

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.28, Anchor

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• By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

  Kat Duff

  Sleep, Writing, Greek

  Kat Duff (2014). “The Secret Life of Sleep”, p.84, Oneworld Publications

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• Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy Wyatt

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mean, Thinking, Way

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• I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.

  Ty Segall

  Sick, Needs, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• [Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym

  Jandy Nelson

  Girl, Mom, Football

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• I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates kidnapped me and took me to their ship and threatened to make me walk the plank over a shiver of starving sharks unless I told them your secret, I still wouldn’t tell it. If I were tied by a villain and thrown before a herd of stampeding horses all shod in iron, and the only way to keep from being trampled was to tell the villain your secret, I—

  Lisa Kleypas

  Horse, Animal, Sharks

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.54, Macmillan

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• Do you know what a balance wheel is?” She shook her head slightly. “There’s one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It’s what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn’t work. You’re my balance wheel, Poppy.” -Harry Rutledge

  Lisa Kleypas

  Moving, Hands, Balance

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.293, Macmillan

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• I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Book, Hands

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• I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

  Travis Barker

  Littles, Punk, Straight Edge

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