It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her.
– Eowyn Ivey
Related Quotes:
- A boy trying out a man’s language. – Eowyn Ivey
- Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I’d never let anything happen to you. You know that, don’t you? – Eowyn Ivey
- Why was it always the woman’s fate to pace and fret and wait? – Eowyn Ivey
- It was right that she was now staying at the ranch. She belonged there. – She belonged with him
- A rough diamond is still worth more than a polished pebble. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. – Confucius
- For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed. – Joe Dunthorne
- A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I’ve got a nickle in my pocket. – Groucho Marx
- If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector? – Nicole Fende
- Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called Arthur. – Michael Chabon
- Sleep came on him as a thief, consciousness stolen like a forgotten coin from his pocket. – Jasmine Silvera
- The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered. – Sunday Adelaja
- When I discovered music -” when I discovered the craft of shaping a song -” my being fell into place. – Charlotte Eriksson
- Wisdom is not always discovered in a book, true wisdom is discovered in the knowing that you know nothing. – Pasha Cook
- I don’t think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970’s. That’s when I discovered it anyway. – Craig Ferguson
- You’re paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs. – KyungSook Shin
- We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it’s tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche. – KA Laity
- Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do. – Max Lucado
- God sometimes moves mountains one pebble at a time. – Rebecca Barlow Jordan
- It’s been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love. – Heather Blanton
- There’s only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean. – KM Douglas
- I’d forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living. – Jim Thompson
- When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten – that may be called true forgetting. – Zhuangzi
- Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten. – Amit Kalantri
- Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- It’s like they’ve forgotten everything important, isn’t it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist. – Katherine Rundell
- I lived to be forgotten because I’d forgotten how to live – Joseph Meyering Sr
- Remember that the one person who can make you joyous and happy is YOU! You do not have to put the key to your own happiness in someone else’s pocket! – Sanchita Pandey
- Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men. – Carsten Jensen
- Her heart was leading her where it belonged. To him. – Farrah Naseem
- It was bittersweet and lovely how this thing called family could make you feel belonged, wanted and complete. – Diyar Harraz
- Nothing belonged to her. She had no home. With no home and no place and now freedom coming to her, she felt an unusual surge of courage. – Michelle Athy
- He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn’t realize it yet. – Michelle M Pillow
- Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts – PG Wodehouse
- This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life. – Henry V ONeil