Earl Derr Biggers Quotes

“Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.”

“Despair? I don't despair. I have never once in my life despaired anything. I make a point not to go further than resignation.”

“I want to keep you. I want to lock you up and not let anyone near you. I don't want others touching you, I don't want them to smell you. I want you hidden and safe. I want to hoard you and never share you with anyone again. I would shape my entire life around your every want and desire, around pleasing you and satisfying you, keeping you where I am not just the centre of your world but all of it.”

“Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be the hearth everyone turns to for warmth.”

“Though never as complex as we fear, life is also never as simple as we might wish.”

“The entire place smelled like the bastard child of a florist and a perfume shop.”

“He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that.""Thank you," she said."As good as a man's," he added."Oh, now you've spoiled it!”

“Did you see Grace is back with us?"Megan did see me. She saw me jump off a cliff and crawl under an Iranian fence. Megan has seen plenty. And I can't help but hold my breath, waiting on her answer."Hi," Megan says, turning to me. "Welcome home."Home. The word hits me. I've spent all my life thinking that I didn't have one, but now that I'm back I can't deny that I've spent more my life on Embassy Row than in any other place-that maybe it just wasn't my mother's childhood home. In a way, it's mine, too.”

“Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard bringsmore satisfaction in the end.”

“Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.”