28 Quotes About Maurice

Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled

Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

-while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.

Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did not misbehave. The rest he left to the parents, and did not speculate how much the parents were leaving to him. Amid mutual compliments the boys passed out into a public school, healthy but backward, to receive upon undefended flesh the first blows of the world.

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.

Papa! You painted my nose!""I certainly did," her father said."But why?" Belle tried to see the purple dot on her face.Maurice grinned. "Because that mark makes you even more beautiful. Different and special from the inside out, just like your fantastic doll. And just like your mother, who you look and act more like every day."Belle eyed her father suspiciously. "A purple mark does all that?""Yes. Because it's yours and only yours," Maurice said.

Too late... everything's always too late.

Whether by chance or not, Maurice began to see the pretty girl with the blond hair everywhere. He always managed to pick her out of the crowd, though she didn't always have blond hair.Or green eyes.Or that height.Or that color skin.It was bewitching.