"And as the years flowed by, some villagers……" — Emma Donoghue
"And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts."
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76 Quotes by Emma Donoghue
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The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can…
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Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.
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She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap,…
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Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm…
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When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about…
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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
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Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.
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Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and…
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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
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More Battlements Quotes
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It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that…
— John Owen
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Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow…
— Ann Radcliffe
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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments,…
— John Owen
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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees,…
— John Milton
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With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.
— William Wordsworth
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What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs…
— Joaquin Miller
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The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of…
— Bill Vaughan
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in…
— Bram Stoker
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From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle…
— Cornelia Funke
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The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing…
— Catherine Fisher
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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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