Explore Book Quotes

I loved the way that six-year-old Matilda could observe so much without always being able to make sense of what she saw. I felt for Frances and hoped that Elizabeth would be okay.

“It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption.”

“When people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.”

“The quilt welcomed me, Patricia, into the world and it was the tablecloth for my first birthday party.”

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”

It was marvellous, a feast for the eyes, this complication of coloured tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiastic colourist!

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.”

Below me in the ocean lay a cluster of black specks, which undoubtedly were islands.

“‘You bear many names, and so I shall name you as well.’ Her hand rose to Celaena’s forehead and she drew an invisible mark. ‘I name you Elentiya.’ She kissed the assassin’s brow. “I give you this name to use with honor, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, ‘Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.””