“All right,” I said. “Hold your horses. I don’t want to be poor. But you can not want to be poor and still not care whether you’re rich or not.”
“Yes, and them’s the kind of people that never accomplish nothing,” he said. “They’re just damn mediocre. If you’re gonna try at all, you ought to try for something big.”
LARRY MCMURTRY
But it was her business to be satisfied - and certainly her temper to be happy; and all was soon right again.
JANE AUSTEN
I smiled at Ted. He really was a good photographer. I’d always considered myself grossly unphotogenic: in photographs I saw a crooked smile, sallow skin, and eyes glowing red like Beelzebub. But Ted somehow managed to capture flattering images of me. And this was one of the reasons I had fallen in love with him. He managed to coax all this beauty out of me that I hadn’t known I had.
LEE HARRINGTON
Anyhow, he say, you know how it is. You ast yourself one question, it lead to fifteen. I start to wonder why us need love. Why us suffer. Why us black. Why us men and women. Where do children really come from. It didn’t take long to realize I didn’t hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a woman or a bush it don’t mean nothing if you don’t ast why you here, period.
So what do you think? I ast.
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the morel love.
ALICE WALKER
Nehemiah Trot said, “Ah listen to me young Leander, young Hero, young Alexander. If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
NEIL GAIMAN
When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her he said, “Who is Tinker Bell?”
“O Peter,” she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
“There are such a lot of them,” he said. “I expect she is no more.”
J. M. BARRIE
All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy.
J. M. BARRIE
“Oh, don’t go on like that!” cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. “Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you’ve come to-day. Consider what o’clock it is. Consider anything, only don’t cry!”
LEWIS CARROLL
They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. She pitied him deeply. “What is his sorrow?” she asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the same words as before, “It’s all his fancy, that: he hasn’t got no sorrow, you know. Come on!”
LEWIS CARROLL
“‘Tis so,” said the Duchess: “and the moral of that is - Oh, ‘tis love, ‘tis love, that makes the world go round!”
“Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “that it’s done by everybody minding their own business!”
“Ah, well! It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess[.]
LEWIS CARROLL
