They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found ...
[it] isn't something you just get over. You don't go back to being who you were. It's more like a snow globe. War shakes you up, and suddenly all those pieces of your life - muscles, bones, thoughts, beliefs, relationships, even your dreams - are flo...
Ron Weasley: You did everything you could. No one could win against that old hag. Hermione Granger: Even Dumbledore didn't see this coming. Harry, if it's anyone's fault, it's ours. Ron Weasley: Yeah, we talked you into it. Harry Potter: Yeah, but I ...
Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.
Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.
Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
Vimes awoke with a noseful of camel. There are far worse awakenings, but not as many as you might think.
People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.
I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.
Eavesdropping is a deplorable habit, but I have developed worse ones since.
Secrets were never good. They were supposed to protect people, but they never did. They always made things worse.
Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—
The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.
I'm going to do something bigger and better, bigger and better and bolder, but first, I'm going to do something smaller and worse.
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.
