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1 " That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents. "
― Ursula Hegi
2 " The three of you are enough to drive a mara mad.'She can wear my shirt," she growled in an imitation of Nash." No,she can wear my shirt," she said switching to Tod's smoother tone.Then Sabine took off down the hall without a glance at any of us." I have a spare.Come on, Kaylee,before I choke on testosterone and melodrama. "
3 " When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Diary
4 " Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard— "
― Gena Showalter , Twice as Hot (Tales of an Extraordinary Girl #2)
5 " Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators. "
― Ann Patchett , The Magician's Assistant
