In Other Words - 1/30/11

We hope you're enjoying our new meme here at Reading Lark - In Other Words! Each Sunday we bring you a collection of literary quotes selected by our awesome blog team centered around a different theme or topic. Enjoy - and feel free to share YOUR favorite quote about this week's theme in our comments section!


This week's topic: Influence


Julie: "Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life."
—Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Andrea:
"What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives,
and especially upon their destinies, as what they do."
—Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"We ought always to try to influence others for good."
—L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Tevya:
"Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions
makes a vast and stupid mistake."
— Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan


"Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry."
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

Paula:
"I am a part of all that I have met."
—Lord Alfred Tennyson

Next week's topic: Truth