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Wells Quotes by Libba Bray
- We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend…
- The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.
- But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and…
- All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a…
- Learn to master yourself-to understand both your fears and your desires. That's the key to magic. Then, no one shall have any hold over you.…
- You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after…
- How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go,…
- Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who told you this?"…
- Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do-well, a grand before and after…
- Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are…
- Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of…
- A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about…
- ...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works-- groundbreaking,…
- You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals." "Totally. Well, not…
- I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures to you.†Daisy’s…
- She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies:…
More Wells Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson