Ma Long Quotes

Don't you find it strange that your mother would leave you?' Becky said. 'I can't imagine my other leaving me.'I'd never thought of it like that before. 'I don't think she knew what else to do.

Grown tall, like a ruddy weed, on his food.

Don't let the meanies get you down.

Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs.

Only two things kept her from loathing him.The expression on his face when he'd said, "France." And the expression on his face when he'd said, "home.

He wished for access to all the world's languages at once, for then he would have a better word for how he felt and what she was.

Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

All the things I’ve done to my body, I’ve done out of love.

There are few things more dangerous than a zealot with discipline

Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say

Death was painful, not because people couldn't see their loved ones anymore, but because they couldn't communicate with them anymore.

The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!

A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.

Does life teach us anything more, I wondered, than not to cry over all there is to cry about?

So what, you assumed you’d show up before the dance and I’d magically be ready to go? I need warning to get beautiful.

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live

Her laugh was wonderful. It was mischief made musical.

For if light had a sound, it was that laugh.

But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us.

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time, ” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

Standing there, that day, I felt like Sally was being torn from my skin and there was no way I could ever fly free, without her right beside me.

The town isn't big enough for two homicidal maniacs.

His heart beat so rapidly it might burst

We fear what we long for. This is the paradox.

It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. ("Interval In Sunlight")

With sports, you have no time to reflect. You just do.

A pier is a disappointed bridge

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

The key to contentment was to never ask why

Action is the spark that ignites potential.

Mulled ale for the frozen man, And mulled ale for the weary:For mulled ale is the body's friendAnd makes the sick heart merry.

The ski club was a frugal and intergenerational group. It gave dime-store trophies for speed and agility within categories of gender, age, and experience, and so eventually everyone got a trophy.

Look in his eyes. He has died a thousand times these last moments...You defeated him utterly the moment you saw fear in his eyes. All else is redundancy.

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.

I will die, however, ” he said quite seriously, “if you leave me again. Just watch me.

The hall erupted into punches, blows, and kicks. The dancing ended but the band played on. The older men escorted the women from the premises and so ended a bloody-good night.

A woman will always remain as princess as long as she keeps her childhood innocence and goodwill

I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women

Juices of fruits and vegetables are pure gifts from Mother Nature and the most natural way to heal your body and make yourself whole again.

My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was "surprised with thunder" that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the sea".

I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.

She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.

She was talking to a tree. Just talking to a tree. Totally normal. People probably did it every day here. They're only trees. She fought an insane urge to laugh.

Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.

If you don't quit and don't cheat and don't run home when trouble arrives you can only win.

My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.

Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.