don't worry, someone else already said it better.: February 2012

Jake was like a book, and if Amanda were to get to know him, it would have to be one page at a time.

[Tell Me How the Wind Sounds; Leslie Davis Guccione; 1989]

The trouble with lip reading was that he had to look right at Amanda. He had to search her face and watch her mouth, and there weren't enough calluses on his heart to do it painlessly.

[Tell Me How the Wind Sounds; Leslie Davis Guccione; 1989]

Sometimes his deafness felt like drowning. He could save himself if he knew what words to use, if he dared put his feelings into sign. If they were alone together, Amanda might figure it all out herself, but not here, never here.

[Tell Me How the Wind Sounds; Leslie Davis Guccione; 1989]

It was as if being with her pulled him closer to everything he'd missed. Deafness was like swimming under water and Amanda Alden was there, on the surface.

[Tell Me How the Wind Sounds; Leslie Davis Guccione; 1989]

He isn't handicapped. He just can't hear [ ... ]

[Tell Me How the Wind Sounds; Leslie Davis Guccione; 1989]

She looked much better than the last time he'd seen her, but the sadness in her eyes was unmistakable. She was doing her best to look bored, but he knew better.

[Tell Me How the Wind Sounds; Leslie Davis Guccione; 1989]

The earl's nostrils flared. Quite remarkably really, for the man resembled a horse to the point that Lucien was surprised no one had offered to halter the fellow.

[Seduced; Pamela Britton; 2003]

I've always thought you shouldn't judge other women by a previous lover's cover.

[spoken by John Thorsen in Seduced; Pamela Britton; 2003]

I do wish this cravat looked more full. If that poor sod Brummell were still around, he would be aghast at the state of it. It's as floppy as a fisher wife's breasts.

[spoken by Lord Lucien St. Aubyn, Duke of Ravenwood, in Seduced; Pamela Britton; 2003]

By God, she was full of surprises. If he hadn't been married to her, he would have found himself liking her.

[Seduced; Pamela Britton; 2003]

I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?

[spoken by Nathaniel Eaton in The Witch of Blackbird Pond; Elizabeth George Speare; 1958]

Kit gave her yarn an impatient jerk that sent the ball bouncing across the floor. Too tardily William bent to catch it and had to get heavily down on his knees to retrieve it from under the settle. Now some men, Kit reflected, could pick up a ball of yarn without looking ridiculous.

[The Witch of Blackbird Pond; Elizabeth George Speare; 1958]

Remember, [ ... ] only the guilty ones stay afloat.

[spoken by Nathaniel Eaton in The Witch of Blackbird Pond; Elizabeth George Speare; 1958]

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

[North and South; Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; 1855]

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than destroying a cathedral.

[spoken by Frederick Anton Reiker in Summer of My German Soldier; Bette Greene; 1973]

By the end of that first day the word useful had taken on an alarming meaning. Work in that household never ceased, and it called for skill and patience, qualities Kit did not seem to possess.

[The Witch of Blackbird Pond; Elizabeth George Speare; 1958]

A man is loyal to the place he loves.

[spoken by Nathaniel Eaton in The Witch of Blackbird Pond; Elizabeth George Speare; 1958]

Once when I was a kid, we went ashore at Jamaica, and in the marketplace there was a man with some birds for sale. They were sort of yellow-green with bright scarlet patches. I was bent on taking one home to my grandmother in Saybrook. But father explained it wasn’t meant to live up here, that the birds here would scold and peck at it. Funny thing, that morning when we left you here in Wethersfield – all the way back to the ship all I could think of was that bird.

[spoken by Nathaniel Eaton in The Witch of Blackbird Pond; Elizabeth George Speare; 1958]

In war the dead pay the debts for the living.

[My Brother Sam is Dead; James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier; 1974]

I asked myself what Sam would do if it were him … he'd do something daring. The most daring thing to do would be to track down Father … Then it came to me that even though rescuing Father was the daring thing to do, it wasn't the smartest thing. So I asked myself another question: what would Father do?

[My Brother Sam is Dead; James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier; 1974]

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.