Ivie Anderson Quotes

I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring at her, trying to make her look at me. That happens in movies--people can feel it when oother people stare at them and they just have to turn around and say something. Either Ivy has a great force field, or my lazer vision isn't very strong....

Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.

Weigh a leaf in your palm. Imperceptible. A green whisper. A cool nothing. Weigh it again in your lungs, with the iron in your blood. Feel your genes clinging to those soft green cells like ivy on an oak.

It’s the people who have suffered that make the world fit to live in.

She had the soul of charity; it had been given her by her suffering, and she never blamed anybody for anything.