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Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze  (Were Quotes) They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could get  (Were Quotes) It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things. When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things, can you?  (Were Quotes) Didn't I tell you, don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?  (Were Quotes) Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world  (Were Quotes) Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself  (Were Quotes) The answers were maddeningly absent - it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back  (Were Quotes) Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing  (Were Quotes) Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining sybmols made meaningless by nothing more than time  (Were Quotes) The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were  (Were Quotes) Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something  (Were Quotes) Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without words, and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?  (Were Quotes) Some problems - take Ireland - were insoluble, but you would never get the Americans to admit anything was insoluble  (Were Quotes) We were secret sisters with a plan for world domination, potential bubbling around us like champagne  (Were Quotes) In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's  (Were Quotes) I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing and bombs dropping and bodies blowing up and war sucking  (Were Quotes) Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should be kept from the morning service of Thanksgiving in the church  (Were Quotes) It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction were coincidental with attainment  (Were Quotes) There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant  (Were Quotes) This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away  (Were Quotes) I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon  (Were Quotes) When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty  (Were Quotes) The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man  (Were Quotes) The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and begging to be read  (Were Quotes) Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration  (Were Quotes) Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?  (Were Quotes) Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were decievers ever, one foot in the sea and one on shore, to one thing constant never  (Were Quotes) I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong  (Were Quotes) Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again  (Were Quotes) The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were  (Were Quotes)
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