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Lizzie QUOTES

Lizzie QUOTES

1 " Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking-
glass, that night when he got back to his room. He gazed at
himself long and curiously. Who are you? What are you? Where do
you belong? You belong by rights to girls like Lizzie Connolly.
You belong with the legions of toil, with all that is low, and
vulgar, and unbeautiful. You belong with the oxen and the drudges,
in dirty surroundings among smells and stenches. There are the
stale vegetables now. Those potatoes are rotting. Smell them,
damn you, smell them. And yet you dare to open the books, to
listen to beautiful music, to learn to love beautiful paintings, to
speak good English, to think thoughts that none of your own kind
thinks, to tear yourself away from the oxen and the Lizzie
Connollys and to love a pale spirit of a woman who is a million
miles beyond you and who lives in the stars! Who are you? and what
are you? damn you! And are you going to make good? "

― Jack London , Martin Eden

2 " Jackson," he mused. " Not a name either one of you was born to." Lizzie answered, " No. But beyond a certain point, names become accessories. We swap them out as needed, for the sake of peace. You understand?" " I understand. Though I disagree. Names aren't hats to change a look, or a suit to be swapped at a whim. Words mean things." " Then we must agree to disagree. "

3 " Consider me your rescuer, not your jailer," he said to Frankie, without looking at her. His gut told him that, on the criminal mastermind scale, this one landed closer to Tinker Bell than Lizzie Borden. "

4 " And what sort of choice is fall in love with me, or you’re a pig?”
“Justice.” Lizzie twirled a lock of hair around her little finger. "

― Ursley Kempe , Witches Monstrous

5 " Her time has come," answered Miss Lizzie. " That's why I didn't marry Harvey - long ago when he asked me. I was afraid of 'that'. So afraid." " I don't know," Miss Lizzie said. " Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than just to be safe." She waited until the next scream died away. " At least she knows she's living. "

6 " Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run—but it could just as easily cost you everything. "

― Joanna Shupe , Magnate (The Knickerbocker Club, #1)

7 " Sweet allowed her pregnancy to get the better of her and simply sat down. Reenie’s lips set into a straight, emotionless line. Mawu no longer talked back, the words she did speak taking on an air of vapidity. Philip was chained at night, no longer trusted. So it was no wonder that Lizzie sought out the white woman then. "

8 " Maggie had a sinking suspicion that those stories her Aunt Lizzie told her, the ones that sent her to bed with her head full of leprechauns and fairies, may be more than fairytales after all. "

― Sara Humphreys , Luck of the Irish (Leprechaun's Gold, #1)

9 " I didn't wave my daisy. I felt small, the way an ant must feel looking up at a field of wildflowers. I was nothing. I was trapped below flowers, buried under them, while girls like Lizzie Lovett danced overhead. That was life. We all have a place. "

― Chelsea Sedoti , The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

10 " (backpacker having conversation with Lizzie the Australian main character)
Backpacker: 'What's the drinking age in Australia?'
'eighteen'
'is that enforced'
Lizzie thought for a second before answering seriously, 'yes, they make us drink "

― , The Happiness Show