Book of Quotes

Something Upstairs

Something Upstairs by Avi

- "Mrs. de Winter: Mrs. Danvers must be furious with me.

Maxim de Winter: Oh, hang Mrs. Danvers! Why on earth should you be frig htened of her? You behave more like an upstairs maid or something, not like the mistress of the house at all.

Mrs. de Winter: Yes, I know I do. But I feel so uncomfortable. I try my best every day, but it's very difficult with people looking you up and down as if you were a prize cow."

- "Oh, give me something to remember you by. "

- "Something told the wild geese

It was time to go.

Though the fields lay golden

Something whispered--"Snow."

- "What was that whiteness?

Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something."

- "Say something! And it says, "I burn." 

- "When at times the mob is swayed

To carry praise or blame too far, 

We may take something like a star

To stay our minds on and be staid."

- "There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation makin g such a claim. The pursuit of happiness ... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase "the pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world."

- "Love still has something of the Sea,

From whence his Mother rose; 

No time his Slaves from Doubt can free,

Nor give their Thoughts repose"

- "It's okay to be a bad writer if you have something to say."

- "See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make both ears of anyone who hears of it tingle."

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It's a little short I know; but, it's not a very long book if you read it.  

~ Alexis