Quotes of: Mrs Keyword

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly cherished creatures, made his own selection, and began to read.

Martin Chuzzlewit

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.

Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

Mr Galliano's Circus

I should be glad to see a good change in anybody, Mr. Godfrey.' she answered, with the slightest discernible difference of tone, 'but it 'ud be better if no change was wanted.

Silas Marner

Mr. Pot drank ten pots of coffee, even though I only made eight. That’s a savings of 20%! 

So many chairs, and no time to sit

Mr Martinek turned back to Jana. 'Thirty-eight per cent alcohol, sixty-two per cent fire - all the way from Karlovy Vary.

Take Me to the Castle

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

Out of My Mind

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

The Mythical Mr. Boo has several eagle feathers, or “Freedom Feathers,” as he likes to call them, that he staples to his chest in protest of any kind of bloodshed.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

My heartbeat’s so loud it’s like a tap dancer in my chest. No, it’s more like Mr. Morse, tapping out the code of love.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large....” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.

Twenty Weeks

They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be." --"Mr. Z

While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, "You feel what, Tiny?".

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

A Woman of No Importance

Foolishly romantic, yeah, sure, maybe: but she'd rather have dreams of Prince Charming than the reality of Mr. Wrong.

Wake Unto Me

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

A Wrinkle in Time

I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn't wear any underwear.

Mike Nichols