Quotes for the Week:
“This gleaming obsidian shard. I safeguard above all the others.”
-A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
-The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’”
-The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknoledged.”
-Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that it had begun.”
-Pride and Pejudice, Jane Austen
“What a lark. What a plunge!”
-Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
“MRS. DALLOWAY said she would buy the flowers herself.”
-Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Scarlett: “Sir, you are no gentleman.”
Rhett: “And you, miss, are no lady.”
-Gone with the Wind, the movie
