Maggie Stiefvater quote: "Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks."

Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have gro...
DANIEL CRAIG

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

We had a lot of question marks. I had no idea what to expect. So, I'm pretty pleased with finishing ...
BRAD BEVIS

Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, tha...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

. . . there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up o...
ALAN BENNETT

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in...
BOBBY BROWN

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very impo...
LEONARD NIMOY

There is no good word for the opposite of lonesome.
One might be tempted to suggest togetherne...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no ...
JOHN WILMOT

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no t...
JOHN WILMOT

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no t...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to n...
ANNE FRANK

Are you really going to work in that?" Maura asked.

Blue looked at her clothing. It invol...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbi...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the sa...
KEN GRIMWOOD

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a rive...
A.A. MILNE

Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself ou...
RACHEL JOYCE

We were so torn, because as adults, as teachers, we had grown up with the space program and knew tha...
BRUCE STOUT

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so ...
COLIN HAY

By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write ...
ELLIE GOULDING

Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people:...
BILLY BALDWIN

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
GEORGE ELIOT

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be ad...
C.S. LEWIS

After college, I started working in the gallery and found myself surrounded by a whole new set of pe...
SARA BAUME

Growing up she had become used to allowing men the ability to curve themselves into question marks a...
R. Y.S. PEREZ

I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued wit...
EDWARD ZWICK

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. ...
DAN JENKINS

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the b...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

I know when I'm awake and when I'm asleep," Ronan Lynch said.
Adam Parrish, curled over himself...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when ...
NORA EPHRON

Sometime excess pain that we experience may be best reason for birth of our talent and sometime our ...
RAJENDRA OJHA

She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE

Maggie slept with him because she wanted to hurt Rose, to get back at her, ... Also Rose had just ki...
CAMERON DIAZ

He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’...
J.K. ROWLING

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father h...
CLIVE ANDERSON

She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan ...
MEG WOLITZER

I think the girls did a good job collectively executing and moving the ball around. It was imperativ...
WILLIAM ANDERSON

I am an equation that only she solves, These X's and Y's by other names called, My way of division i...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

You're not that girl,' Cole said, sounding tired. 'Trust me, I've seen enough of them to know. Look....
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very ...
TONI MORRISON

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I fi...
ROSEANNE

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
JEREMY IRONS

It's almost 12 feet high. They had to be that big, because the gasoline had to be delivered by gravi...
RICK BURKHOLDER

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was...
MARK SPITZ

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
CARL JUNG

Years later, we added up the time we had spent together before we got married and discovered that it...
JUDY MORGAN

I had thought about changing my mind before we knew which coach was coming in. But as soon as I hear...
DALILA ESHE

When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was ...
NENIA CAMPBELL

So I take it you and Gansey get along, then?” Maura’s expression was annoyingly knowing.
�...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it
MARK TWAIN

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
DALAI LAMA XIV

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it ha...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.
BRUCE FEIRSTEIN

When I was younger, I was very princessy. I always wanted to be blond-haired and blue-eyed. This was...
GRACE LIN

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three chi...
JOHN WILMOT

When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can ...
DASHANNE STOKES

There's probably more question marks on this depth chart than we've had the last few years.
TOMMY TUBERVILLE

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
ETHEL WATERS

We've always stood up well in comparison with our competitors in technical tests but users disliked ...
JON VON TETZCHNER

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
ADELE FABER

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in t...
CLARENCE THOMAS

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an impe...
NEIL GAIMAN

We had heard about it and decided to make the trip.
DIANA MILLER

Radio was the greatest training ground. You had to be very quick and you had to be very versatile......
JUNE FORAY

We still had a long way to go and it was imperative to retain continuity in our efforts,
JIM WHITAKER

She had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

I had a dream about you. You were crying, and I couldn’t tell if it was because you were sad or be...
DORA J. AROD

Drugs?"
"Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?"
"No. But maybe rituals."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and tim...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

We were just so pumped up, had so much adrenaline after we got up by one. It was so hard after that ...
KATHRYN STOCKBOWER

I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grow...
KAPIL SHARMA

So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theo...
JOHN WILMOT

In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which sid...
J.P. ROBINSON

In order to understand more, it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which si...
J.P. ROBINSON

We were always hearing on the street, 'Where can we hear some live blues music?' No place in town wa...
BILL LUCKETT

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had th...
GERRY COONEY

We've had a lot of people asking about them. People would just come up to me and ask me about them, ...
ANGIE JAYNES

Lisa's baby was due about now. I've decided she had it and it was a girl. I've named her Rachel.
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and...
GEORGE GROSZ

I retired about five years ago. I was working at the Riviera and decided I had had enough.
FREDDIE BELL

He had grown so fast and so tall. We had to strengthen his stomach muscles. He hasn't had a problem ...
TOMMY TUBERVILLE

Children and teens are surrounded by unhealthy options.
BRYN AUSTIN

He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought wa...
MERVYN PEAKE

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.

He didn't think he was good enough, and he was ready to give up on himself. The supporting cast arou...
BOB HURLEY

I don't believe until this came up anybody had gone to the trouble of checking name by name (for dea...
ED WILLIAMS

Many parents were told by doctors that their children had problems because of something that happene...
MARC WILLIAMS

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those ...
JACK WAGNER

His steady gaze held hers. His blue eyes were very dark, uniquely so. She had known people before wi...
CASSANDRA CLARE

I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative...
PORTIA DE ROSSI

Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.

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Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.

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