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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6d995a3 | keep my hands still." Richard paused. He drew his hand across his eyes, shuddering. "Milward saw the scratch. He cried out that the cards were marked! Suddenly everyone seemed to be gathered about our table--all talking! Jack had his hand on my shoulder; he and Dare were running through the pack. But all the while I could look at no one but Tracy--Andover. He seemed so sinister, so threatening, in those black clothes of his. His" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 45c4e54 | you, Warburton, I would have | Georgette Heyer | ||
| c7cb13c | At the end of the war I was shipped over to England and Dr. Strange--you've heard of him? He's a marvel--put me right. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 4c2b276 | Whatever should I do if Mama were to arrive while you are gone?' 'Hide in the hay-loft!' he recommended. 'But if she has a particle of commonsense she won't make the smallest push to recover you! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 5e1b9d2 | Oh, my poor Sparrow!' he said, mocking her. 'Never have I encountered so heartrending a sight! A job-horse?' 'No,' replied Phoebe. 'My cousin Anne's favourite mount. A very safe, comfortable ride for a lady, Duke.' 'I beg your pardon! I have not seen him show his paces, of course.' She cast him a glance of lofty scorn. 'He has none. He has a very elegant shuffle, being just a trifle tied in below the knee.' 'But such shoulders!' Gravit.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 9e756d9 | It was strange how the dullest party could be enjoyed because there was one person present whose eyes could be met for the fraction of a second, in wordless appreciation of a joke unshared by others: almost as strange as the insipidity of parties at which that person was not present. | parties | Georgette Heyer | |
| 47892d2 | Sir Nugent] wore so many rings on his fingers, and so many fobs and seals dangling at his waist, that he might have been taken for a jeweller advertising his wares. | regency | Georgette Heyer | |
| 0ecf59a | Mama -?' 'But of course! Outside, in my curricle.' Then he saw that she had turned perfectly white, and said: 'Don't be such a goose-cap! You can't suppose I would drive your mother-in-law thirty yards, let alone thirty miles! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ebda7e6 | In any event, I could hardly have remained, when his lordship was suddenly called away, could I?' 'No, your grace. Particularly seeing as how you wasn't wishful to. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ca8a874 | Wearing Nametags- On Others I enjoy reading nametags and calling people by their names before we have officially met or been introduced. It provides an instant icebreaker. Walking up to someone and saying, "Hi Brenda! I'm Susan!" creates a quick connection that might not have happened were her name not displayed." | customer-service-quotes employee-engagement first-impressions-quotes motivational-leadership-speaker networking-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes speaker-susan-young team-building | Susan C. Young | |
| fec506c | Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane. | optimism | Susan Cooper | |
| 2a8227f | He was among trees then, spring trees tender with the new matchless green of young leaves, and a clear sun dappling them; summer trees full of leaf, whispering, massive; dark winter firs that fear no master and let no light brighten their woods. He learned the nature of all trees, the particular magics that are in oak and beech and ash. | Susan Cooper | ||
| b4cd06e | the sky dark with wheeling birds. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 7b857d1 | the house and everyone in it lay in a sleep that would not be broken. | Susan Cooper | ||
| aeb311f | You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction... | opinions racism | Susan Cooper | |
| 91e424d | The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 3c9e753 | Jane clutched her mug like a talisman of reality; then suddenly jumped so hard that she spilt half the cocoa on the window-sill. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 6a54f63 | The surface of the iron was irregular, but though it showed no sign of having been polished it was completely smooth--smooth in a way that reminded him of a certain place in the rough stone floor of the kitchen, where all the roughness had been worn away by generations of feet turning to come round the corner from the door. | Susan Cooper | ||
| c2a7215 | For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world. | christmas-quotes | Susan Cooper | |
| 703cca5 | I remember it was a damn funny thing for a stranger to say," Stephen said. "Old Ones, we Old Ones. With capital letters-- you could *hear* them." | Susan Cooper | ||
| 388f5e9 | Where did they go?" "Where the leaves go in autumn," Will said. Bran looked at him and seemed suddenly to relax; he grinned. "There's poetic, now." Will laughed. "It's true. Of course, the trouble with leaves is, they grow again..." | Susan Cooper | ||
| f699100 | Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the comfortable noise made him cheerful, and he even remembered what they were supposed to be. | simon-drew | Susan Cooper | |
| d0a18cd | And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 389a589 | Honest. I know. But all the same... woo!" It was a head-back, beaming, yelping shout of joyful excitement, spontaneous and startling, and every face turned; their apprehensiveness faded for a moment, and even Merriman, stern for the first instant, laughed aloud. "Yes!" he said. "We need that as much as the sword, Barney." | Susan Cooper | ||
| a20c8e8 | In a way," Great -Uncle Merry said. His eyes seemed dazed, unable to focus anywhere, but there was a twitching at the corners of his mouth. Somehow, without smiling, he looked happier than they had ever seen him look before. Jane thought, watching: it is a sad face usually, and that's why there is such a difference." | Susan Cooper | ||
| d54d955 | maybe because the dark can only reach people at the extremes-- those bound by their own shiny ideas or locked up in the darkness of their own heads. | Susan Cooper | ||
| be07290 | the dark tree, the cold sea" although I know you can never be found although I know that from the highest height you cannot be seen you are not hiding from me or are you is it how you look now or maybe how I look now all these years gone by places seen people met not knowing at any time who I was or how others saw me or did not see me and how are you wherever you are if I write you a letter | Susan Cooper | ||
| bd78eb7 | Great-Uncle Merry, coming back towards the car from the Grey House, had suddenly stopped in his tracks in the middle of the road. He was gazing down at the sea; and she realised that he had caught sight of the yacht. What startled her was the expression on his face. Standing there like a craggy towering statue, he was frowning, fierce and intense, almost as if he were looking and listening with senses other than his eyes and ears. He could .. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 787a825 | Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner. | father gratitude sacrifice | Susan Cooper | |
| 3dd87f0 | They came generally from people writing theses on fantasy or on the Dark Is Rising books. They were full of questions I'd never thought about and false assumptions that I didn't want to think about. They would ask me in great detail for, say, the specific local and mythical derivations of my Greenwitch, a leaf-figure thrown over a Cornish cliff as a fertility sacrifice, and I would have to write back and say, "I'm terribly sorry; I made it .. | Susan Cooper | ||
| d020936 | including him in the words. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 7ade2a0 | I think something quite dreadful has been happening to criticism in the arts, particularly in America, during the last twenty years. In an age which is so much dominated by technological advance, the methods and even the jargon of science and engineering have mistakenly been adopted not only by fringe disciplines like psychology and social studies but by many arts scholars who should have known better. | Susan Cooper | ||
| ae83b20 | President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation among people. | Susan Chritton | ||
| 3df9985 | By cooperating, Verizon Wireless is implicitly promising that the FiOS service will spread no farther; Comcast and Time Warner, for their part, are implicitly promising that they will not go into the wireless business. | Susan P. Crawford | ||
| 1c22438 | The cooperative approach has politically progressive roots--the theory is that students take ownership of their education when they learn from one another--but according to elementary school teachers I interviewed at public and private schools in New York, Michigan, and Georgia, it also trains kids to express themselves in the team culture of corporate America. "This style of teaching reflects the business community," one fifth-grade teache.. | Susan Cain | ||
| dfbec36 | The three generous men of the Island of Britain. Nudd the Generous, son of Senllyt. Mordaf the Generous, son of Serwan. Rhydderch the Generous, son of Tydwal Tudglyd. And Arthur himself was more generous than the three. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 8950121 | Bran said, "Why should some of the Riders of the Dark be dressed all in white and the rest all in black?" "Without colour...." Will said reflectively. "I don't know. Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes-- blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads." | inspirational philosophy susan-cooper | Susan Cooper | |
| 8c4211c | The man was tall, and wore a dark cloak that fell straight like a robe; his hair, which grew low over his neck, shone with a curious reddish tinge. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 93988f6 | Susan was frustrated and angry with her disease, which she survived for more than nine years. And my father became the receptacle for her vitriol. 'She screams and carries on when the going gets tough,' he wrote, 'knowing that I understand and will never reproach her, never abandon her, whatever!'' He even encouraged her to use him in this manner, suspecting that once she was drained, she became more rational, placid, and cooperative regard.. | Barron H. Lerner | ||
| 461384c | People seemed to me to fill life with shadows that should not be there. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 63b04d2 | La montana mas desprovista de vida y mas esteril sobre la faz de la Tierra, con el sueno ininterrumpido de anos y anos cubriendo su soledad, sigue conservando en su cabeza callada la emocion de una pasion poderosa. | Susan Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 274720a | those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun.' Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. 'At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, | Susan Cooper | ||
| 0366210 | At the centre of the Light there is a cold white flame, | Susan Cooper | ||
| 0bc5b96 | He was tall, and straight, with a lot of very thick, wild, white hair. In his grim brown face the nose curved fiercely, like a bent bow, and the eyes were deep-set and dark. | Susan Cooper |