Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

Excellent Women

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

Excellent Women

What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?

The Flame Alphabet

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

Fly Away

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

The Flame Alphabet

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

The Forgotten Garden

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

The Forgotten Garden

And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she'd never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.

Fallen

It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.

Firefly Lane

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

Fairest

People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.

Fated

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.

Fables, Vol. 14: Witches

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You

as the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the Lord our God.

Gold Cord

The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it.

The Gypsy Goddess

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

The Goat-Foot God

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ...

A Girl of the Limberlost