Quotes - Norman Bankey (Basking Ridge, NJ) Showing 1-11 of 11

#1

“Marco opened the walkway gate just as a sprightly grey lizard skittered across the stone path. A bougainvillea vine laden with a riot of purple blooms scaled the right side of the house, and the heady scent of gardenias saturated the air.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: gripping, longing, patriarchal-society, perseverance, political-fiction, regret, social-justice, tropical-island, u-s-puerto-rico-relations, vivid

115 likes

#2

“But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: gender, humour

438 likes

#3

“May your day be filled with joy with a sprinkling of positivity on top.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: explore, happiness, imagination, joy, love, magic, pride, wander, writing

75 likes

#4

“I'm not into this whole "move with the times" thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: cynicism, humour, life, philosophy, writers-life

204 likes

#5

“Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: find-oneself, friendships, learning, life-lessons, love, personal-identity, philosophy, teachings, truths, value

155 likes

#6

“But he got to his feet, his brows contacted in a frown. "You weren't speaking seriously?"
I moved towards the door, "It doesn't pay to be serious," I said. "It only means that people laugh behind your back, instead of to your face.”
― Nevil Shute, Lonely Road

tags: bitterness, disenchantment

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#7

“Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

tags: equal-rights

55 likes

#8

“You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

626 likes

#9

“How do you feel when I smile at you?" he asked - and then he did smile at her, just a little.

Not like myself, Cath thought.

"Like an idiot," she said softly. "And I never want it to stop.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

tags: smile-smiles

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#10

“Cucumbers are technically a fruit and in the same family as pumpkins, melons and squash, so it may benefit those markets, although, to be honest, giant melons don't strike me as potentially that commercial.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

tags: humor, puns

9 likes

#11

“My story and my stories are all, in one or another, the same, tales of solitude and the grand pursuit of connection, of success and the inevitability of defeat.”
― Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs

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