Quotes About Ward

Mac's navy-regulation crew-cut had grown out into a mop of dirty-blonde hair, his hawkish hazel eyes sporting a few more stress lines since their shared three month stay together in the mental ward where they had met seven years ago. The boyish twinkle was still present.

I have to say, your technique is really different. Curran hammered at the spell until it broke. You just talk. Help me out here, what's the strategy? Are you hoping the ward will get tired and kill itself so it won't have to listen to you anymore?

Far beneath the rusty Baltimore dawn, stirrings in the maximum security ward. Down where it is never dark the tormented sense beginning day as oysters in a barrel open to their lost tide. God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again and the ravers cleared their throats.

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

Out of the blackness of the ward, a half-open file drawer of pain each bed a folder, come cries, struck cries, as from cold metal.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Did you set a blood ward around us, so you could scream at me uninterrupted?" "YES!

Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.

Had the mission system proved successful—and by the 1830s it had had more than sixty years to do so—a steady stream of Hispanicized Native Americans should long since have been transferring into the civil population of California. This never happened. Either the Indians died off, or they became permanently missionized (which is to say, wards of the Franciscans), or they fled into the interior. Mission culture remained volatile

His blush was the color of Valentine's Day and she had to tell her heart to calm the fuck down as it started to beat fast.

You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her.

With gunmetal-gray piercings in his ears, and an ahstrux nohtrum teardrop under his eye from when he had served as John Matthew's protector, he caught stares wherever he went. Perhaps

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

Any more motherly attention and I could end up strapped to a table in Ward B singing 'I Gotta Be Me.

what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?

It is entirely unacceptable that I should have no voice in the political affairs of my own country, for I am not a ward of America; I am one of the first Americans to arrive on these shores.

When my invitation centered on how the Church would interest them, Tom wasn't interested. But when I asked for help, Tom said, "Sure." He and his wife have become wonderful members of our ward.

the mad conjurer at the ward whose pet obsession was that gravity had something to do with the blood circulation of a Supreme Being.

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Memory was talisman and ward for him, gateway and hearth. It was pride and love, shelter from loss: for if something could remembered, it was not wholly lost. Not dead and gone forever.

Can you enjoy being on a psychiatric ward, caring for people living through the worst moments of their lives? Unless your empathy button's broken, he's not sure you can. You can love it, maybe, but you're not going to find it fun.

Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.