Clara Quotes

Dad thinks I'm ready to fly around the country as the Ambassador of Hope, but Mom thinks I'm a frail little bird with broken wings.

Hope is made of air, and wishes. An empty box wrapped in shiny paper.

My father is using me as a message of hope. My sister is using me as a message of fear.I don't want to be used by anybody.

When life gives you a lemon, chuck it right back.... and add a few lemons of your own.

With the balcony doors completely open and folded up, his small room acquired an infinite vista. Somewhere on the horizon, water finally worked up the courage to embrace the sky.

His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie, ' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.

She told herself there had been nothing outside, nothing peering in at her from the darkness. Nothing at all.

Light, show yourself pure and strong, Save a man from evil's throng, Take a form, small and white, Give this girl the strength to fight.

Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.~The Moon Master

Emmerich's heart in his throat, he could only stare down at Monica, who looked up at him with glassy eyes as she shivered with pain and choked on blood.

Oh-ho, so you are a witch. More like a witchling, as you're too small to be a full witch.” (Emmerich)

Do it double, because some can't do it at all.

Something contracts in my chest. The air shifts, grows heavy and dense as mud. Alexa twists her hair around her finger and whispers, "Didn't you even try to escape, Charlotte?

I say to my sister, "I thought you were doing the things in our Dream Book. I was sure of it." "Why would I do that stuff without you?" "Because you could.""Well, you were wrong.

Knowing what I know today about how deeply the word feminist threatens the existing social compact, to say radical feminist now seems to me almost redundant. (Robin Morgan)

[I]n America, wrongs can be righted, warriors can wear skirts and blouses, and the bravest heartsmay beat in girlsonly five feet tall.

I guess sometimes the truth just isn't worth believing... Personally, I've always felt that life's too short for truth. I'm just here to be entertained.

The trouble with believing conspiracies is you start seeing them everywhere, right? And everything becomes a part of them. But, of course, the trouble with not believing them is becoming a dupe.

Life is about trust. Nothing happens until you take a step out. The universe gives nothing to those who do not trust.

Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives. - Clara Bayliss

And she cries even more, for the way the universe keeps throwing her together with the players in her son's tragedy, like handfuls of dust.

Visitors come and go.Daily I read tea leaves for signsof the approaching century:a raven perched on a crossa sword piercing a cloud--A Victorian Life

There had only ever been two roads home: there was the long road and there was the sea road, and tonight I would take the sea road.

HECKLER: Say something funny!COMEDIAN: I don't do requests.

Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.

He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt)

It is not love that transforms the world, but pity.

I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette.

Oh, how magical it will be to have winter come every year.

Explanations are for cowards.

Truth cannot be changed. When all the flowers of the world are dead, there will still be a true thing that is a flower.

Lancelot and Guinevere – they looked like two flowers, bright enough to turn to each other for sunlight.

I may be compelled to face danger but never fear it and while our soldiers can stand and fight I can stand and feed and nurse them.

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

Until I die I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.

Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.

The door that nobody else will go in at seems always to swing open widely for me.

Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.

Economy prudence and a simple life are the sure masters of need and will often accomplish that which their opposites with a fortune at hand will fail to do.

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.