Quotes of: Emily Keyword

What’s that around your neck?” asked Emily. “It’s a golden star.” Said Reed. “What did you get it for?” “Chemistry class.” “What’s the star for?” the shadow asked, Usually stars represent a straight A student. “You get it fo...

Rumi Antoinette

[first lines] [Brendan answers the pay phone] Emily: Brendan. Brendan Frye: Emily. Emily: Yeah-h... How's things? Brendan Frye: Status quo.

Brick

Emily: [over the phone] I screwed up real bad, you know? Brendan Frye: Screwed up how? Emily: Look, I did what she said with the brick. I didn't know it was bad, but The Pin's on it now for poor Frisco, and they're playing it all on me. Brendan Frye:...

Brick

I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear Emily - I hope I have understood.' Emily's poems are sometimes difficult, often abstract, on occasion flippant, but her mind i...

Helen Oyeyemi

The Poets light but Lamps- Themselves-go out-

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Your present is what you live, but your past is what you carry.

The Circle of Six: Emily's Quest

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

The Circle of Six: Emily's Quest

Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?

The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson

some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI

The Sufi's Garland: A Tribute to Emily Dickinson, Antonio Porchia and Rabindranath Tagore

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.

A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson

Emily Posa: Do you wanna play a game? Ben Thomas: What game? Emily Posa: The "what if" game. Ben Thomas: The "what if" game. Emily Posa: What if... my pager goes off... and it's a heart... and... it works? And my body doesn't reject it? And... what i...

Seven Pounds

Emily: Brendan, I know you're mad at these people because you think I went away from you and went to them but, you need to start seeing it as my decision. Stop getting angry because where I want to be at, is different from where you want to be at. Br...

Brick

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.

The Circle of Six: Emily's Quest

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

Poems by Emily Dickinson Third Series

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson

Finbar McBride: I'm retired, actually. Emily: Aren't you a little young to be retired? Finbar McBride: No, dwarves retire early. Common fact. Emily: Yeah, *lazy* dwarves.

The Station Agent

It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

Emily Climbs

An Alabama-faced man with a Georgia body once told me I had the smile of an Emily. That made me grin, which is definitely not how an Emily would react, so I knew it couldn’t be true.

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