Jaime Misumi > Jaime's Quotes

“On the end of my bed. He’s short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout on the top of his head,’ Bryony said. ‘You flatter me,’ came the snide male voice. ‘But it’s a valve.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“ONE of the most distinctive features of the human mind is to forecast better things. “We look before and after
And pine for what is not.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland

“Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all.
You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story.
Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
― Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

“She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.”
― Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown!”
― Rachel Caine, The Dead Girls' Dance

“I made my life, the same way it looks like you're gonna make yours—out of pride and stubbornness and too much anger. You better think hard, Ruth Anne, about what you want and who you're mad at. You better think hard.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina