#told

I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#foretold #rose-hathaway #vampire-academy #rose-hathaway

What must I do now?” Mrs. Muller considered her silently for a while. “You are still a child. You must go where you are told and do as you are told. But it won’t always be so. Soon you will be in charge of yourself. Until that time: Be aware. Listen. Look. Touch. Smell. And remember. But for now, you must go home. ↗

— Masha du Toit

#children #do-as-you-re-told #growing-up #home

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#had #i #made #me #said

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. ↗

— Donna Rice

#before #believed #between #boat #choice

It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want ↗

— Kami Garcia

#change

Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#again #ask #be kind #his #husband

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of. ↗

— Amy Tan

#both #care #concert #concert pianist #day

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#amateur #bit #charm #first #involve

Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go. ↗

— Benh Zeitlin

#me #movies #once #passport #someone

They had always told me that I wrote like a man. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

#had #i #like #man #me