Said Quotes - Page 51
I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.
Verses (1910) "The False Heart"
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.161, Random House
What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.283, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harold Brodkey (2011). “Stories in an Almost Classical Mode”, p.287, Vintage
Reported in Donald Sutherland, Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work (1951). Stein's companion Alice B. Toklas, who was with her at her death, reported Stein's words as, "What is the answer? ... In that case... what is the question?" (Alice B. Toklas, What Is Remembered [1963]), and did not identify these specifically as the last words.
Shepherd's Hunting, 1615.
Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.115, Macmillan
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.27, Hamilton Books
Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.
Erle Stanley Gardner (2011). “Top of the Heap”, p.206, Titan Books
Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.97, Simon and Schuster
Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.75, Pan Macmillan
Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.57, Open Road Media
Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.
Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.81, Pan Macmillan
Dirk Bogarde (2014). “A Postillion Struck by Lightning”, p.171, A&C Black
Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”