William Shakespeare Quotes

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!

But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.

If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He opened his knife drawer. "It goes here," he said, "until you return."(That's how you leave: by never saying good-bye.)And I learned that: to return. I came back the following year and the year after that. I hope to return every year (after all, I may never have the chance to learn so much), until I have no one to return to. (301)

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

The idea of family is really one of the only things we can all say we have and we can't run away from. Whether you like your family or not. Whether it's complicated or not, there's something - call it spiritual, call it existential, whatever - that's in you.

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

But by blood, no wolf am I

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

Don’t start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.