#orr

He wants a fifteen thousand pound settlement." "Fifteen thousand!" "He says you're a great deal of trouble." She hesitated for one startled moment before choking back a laugh. "I am." "I thought so." He leveled Drew a look. "If I pay you the fifteen thousand, do you swear to keep her?" Drew reared back his head. "Forever?" Her father scowled. "Forever." "Oh, I suppose." He gave a long-suffering sigh. "If I must." She bit the insides of her cheeks to keep from laughing outright. ↗

— Deeanne Gist

#bride #brides #christian #christian-romance #connie

You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair. ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#mourning #sorrow #inspirational

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#remains #renunciation #sorrow #though #willingly

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast. ↗

— Joan of Arc

#always #best #blood #body #did

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#both #ever #humbling #i #little

I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#like #me #people #story #worried

I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's not the person you want to fight, even now! You look at him, and you don't want to mess with him. He would still take you down. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#clint eastwood #down #eastwood #even #even now

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#faculty #i #instrument #myself #possess

A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world. ↗

— Tom Kane

#horror #paranormal #change

Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#day #every #every day #last #live