Brock Quotes

1. "You wanted a blue rose," Brock said. "Didn't you? Wasn't that the whole point?""Doesn't everyone want what they cannot have?"(Elinor)"Here's what I think: it's the quest that matters."(Brock)"
Author: Alice Hoffman

2. "In the dewy wood tinselled with bewildering moonlight, the bumbling, tumbling babies of the fairy creche trip over the hem of her dress, which is no more nor less than the margin of the wood itself; they stumble in the tangled grass as they play with the coneys, the quick brown fox-cubs, the russet fieldmice and the wee scraps of grey voles, blind velvet Mole and striped Brock with his questing snout - all the denizens of the woodland are her embroiderings, and the birds flutter round her head, settle on her shoulders and make their nests in her great abundance of disordered hair, in which are plaited poppies and ears of wheat."
Author: Angela Carter

3. "...there's me, Gurth, Dotti, Grenn an' about a hunnerd shrews. If'n we wants to lie 'round for a day or two then you'll find yore prob'ly outvoted!"Lord Brocktree's eyes told the otter that he was not about to have his decision overruled. Swinging forth his battle blade, he stuck it quivering into the ground. "Lets's be reasonable about this, friend. Let me explain the rules. One Badger Lord carries two hundred votes and his sword carries another hundred. Agreed?"Ruff looked from the sword to the badger. Sunlight gleamed from the blade lighting Brocktree's eyes with a formidable gleam. He smiled nervously at his huge friend. "Reason, that's wot I likes, mate. Vote carried. We go after brekkist tomarrer!"
Author: Brian Jacques

4. "Her grave is in Brocklebridge Churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a gray marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word 'Resurgam'."
Author: Charlotte Brontë

5. "It was a pity Mr. Brocklehurst could not see them too; he would perhaps have felt that, whatever he might do with the outside of the cup and platter, the inside was further beyond his interference than he imagined."
Author: Charlotte Brontë

6. "We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going."
Author: Danny DeVito

7. "But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catching. Mrs. Brockington was further on the road Ellen wanted to travel, and because Mrs. Brockington had got there, Ellen felt she might get there too."
Author: Dorothy Whipple

8. "Shepley shook his head. "No way. No fucking way, Trav. The guy's a maniac!""Yeah," Travis smiled, "but he's not fighting for his girl, is he?" Travis cradled me in his arms, kissing the top of my hair. "You okay, Pigeon?""This is wrong. This is wrong on so many levels. I don't know which one to talk you out of first.""Did you not see me tonight? I'm going to be fine. I've seen Brock fight before. He's tough, but not unbeatable.""I don't want you to do this, Trav."
Author: Jamie McGuire

9. "I leaned over to whisper in Brock's ear. "I just want you to know I'm a big fan, even though you're kind of a prick and a cheat. So don't take it personally when you get KTFO'd tonight."
Author: Jamie McGuire

10. "Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time."
Author: Jane Mayer

11. "For a long moment, while Brock stood off observing them, Ned and Barley appraised one another as only Englishmen can who are of the same height and class and shape of head."
Author: John Le Carré

12. "I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with."
Author: Johnny Marr

13. "Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf."
Author: Jules Verne

14. "I am the Colombus of this nether world!Dr. Leidenbrock"
Author: Jules Verne

15. "Well, maybe, you should. Because frankly, Brock, you're being a jerk and you know it." "I'm blind. Why can't you people see that?"
Author: Katherine Owen

16. "Brock 'Slim' Lucas looked at his oldest son, his eyes moved to his youngest son and then they slid to his wife.And when his eyes hit her shining ones he realized he had not one thing to wish for. Not one. There was nothing he wanted.He had it all right here."
Author: Kristen Ashley

17. "When my phone rang at the bakery, this usually meant someone wanted to order a birthday cake. When Brock's rang at the Station, this usually meant someone had a cap busted in their ass.My job was WAY better."
Author: Kristen Ashley

18. "You're wrong,darlin', I got wild in me. And I'll never lose it. It's just that my wild is a safe place for you and it will always be." - Brock"
Author: Kristen Ashley

19. "You wanna tell me, sweetness, how dessert for seventeen people translates into seven pies and two cakes?" Brock asked."
Author: Kristen Ashley

20. "No, it was because Hawk, Brock and Mitch stormed that house at Tack's side. This meant, to Tack, they were different kinds of brothers. Not of blood. Not of the cut. But that bond was unshakable all the same."
Author: Kristen Ashley

21. "Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up at Nash's feet and dropped from the saddle. The two brothers threw their arms around each other and embraced hard.Shortly thereafter he stepped into the healing rooms and leaned in the doorway, looking across at her quietly. Brocker's son with the gentle gray eyes.She abandoned all pretense of decorum and ran at him."
Author: Kristin Cashore

22. "When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them."
Author: Kristin Cashore

23. "Rolling orange fire silhouetted him from behind, backlighting the warrior's broad shoulders and casual, long-legged stride. As he strolled away from the inferno, the ends of his loose black coat winged out behind him like a cape befitting the prince of darkness himself. "Holy hell," Brock murmured. "Tegan."
Author: Lara Adrian

24. "Jenna." Brock stroked the underside of her chin very gently, lifting her face up toward his. "Would it be all right if I kissed you?"
Author: Lara Adrian

25. "I wished I'd known weeks ago that we didn't have to be chaperoned. I remembered my old daydreams: the prince and I, alone together, cuddling and whispering... I probably would have wised up and brocken the engagement sooner."
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

26. "A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy."[Interview with Emma Brockes, The Believer, November/December, 2012]"
Author: Maurice Sendak

27. "Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest."
Author: Rickey Henderson

28. "Bottom half of the seventh, Brock's boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry's heart was racing, he was sweating with relief and tension all at once, unable to sit, unable to think, in there, with them! Oh yes, boys, it was on!"
Author: Robert Coover

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