#polly

Once I saw Graham - wholly unconscious of her proximity - push her with his restless foot. She receded an inch or two. A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it had been pressed, and softly caressed the heedless foot. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#graham #polly #unrequited-love #villette #love

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#genetic #hopeless #i #mother #pollyanna

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#anyway #boat #compete #crime #find

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on. ↗

— John Gay

#keeping #kissed #men #might #off

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#i #less #now #pollyanna #probably

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. ↗

— Eleanor Porter

#childhood #got #me #personal #pollyanna

She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4. ↗

— Mark Millar

#death-wish #epic #girl-power #hardcore #john-rambo

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#along #better #certainly #directives #earth

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#city #get #got #grateful #greatest

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type. ↗

— Dan Savage

#i #i am #idiot #pollyanna #sort