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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 526e90a | My "do" now consisted of some really nifty spikes on top. I looked like a punker, but it was kind of fun, if you want to know the truth. Next thing I knew I'd be getting my ears pierced and chewing gum in public, social sins my auntie had always warned me about, along with red nail polish and dingy bra straps." | Sue Grafton | ||
| 05e2299 | Results for "I looked as respectable as the bum they were booking. I fancied I smelled better, but perhaps not. I've noticed that most of us don't have a clue what we smell like to other people. It's almost as though our noses blank us out in self-defense." | Sue Grafton | ||
| 17a10ad | She knew that most men desired her because she was attractive and she was smart, but also because she was a drunk and she was easy. This one? She hoped for his sake he wasn't as different as he seemed, because she always disappointed those men quickly or broke their hearts over time. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| f7b2c22 | People have rejected me all my life. Sometimes it's death or desertion. infidelity, betrayal. You name it. I've experienced every form of emotional treachery there is. Well, big deal. Everybody's suffered something in life and so what? I'm not sitting around feeling sorry for myself, but I'd have to be a fool to lay myself open to that shit again." Excerpt From: Grafton, Sue. "M Is for Malice." Macmillan, 1996-04-15T17:29:10+00:00. iBooks. .. | kinsey-millhone rejection | Sue Grafton | |
| 40563ed | I truly hate being a guest in someone's home...Worst of all, you have to 'make nice' at all hours. I don't want someone across the table from me while I'm eating my breakfast. I don't want to share the newspaper and I don't want to talk to anyone at the end of the day. If I were interested in that shit, I'd be married again by now and put a permanent end to all the peace and quiet. | spinster | Sue Grafton | |
| 6aed04d | So far, I felt like I had a lapful of confetti and the notion of piecing it all together to make a picture seemed very remote indeed. | Sue Grafton | ||
| c57ac41 | we understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 4eabd21 | The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 4b34331 | Sometimes these kids are ADHD and sometimes not--but they're always unemotional. They might have tantrums, but what looks like fury is pure manipulation. They have no empathy and they have no desire to please. They don't care about punishment. They don't care about other people's pain and suffering. It just doesn't interest them." "You" | Sue Grafton | ||
| 0113967 | I stood when she reached the table and we did that fake kissing thing, looking like a pair of budgies about to peck each other to death. | Sue Grafton | ||
| a26d1a4 | As it is, we could not call mine a beautiful puss, but it does the job well enough, distinguishing the front of my head from the back. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 3cbba5e | I've given this a great deal of thought and what I've realized is that revenge doesn't have to be an eye for an eye. Retaliation can take any number of forms. It doesn't need to be crude or obvious. The point is, the pain should be equivalent; not tit for tat but something comparable. | Sue Grafton | ||
| e3a987a | I find it so liberating when other people are rude. It makes me feel mild and lazy and mean. | rudeness | Sue Grafton | |
| 0825709 | The Copse at Hurstbourne is one of those fancy-sounding titles for a brand-new tract of condominiums on the outskirts of town. 'Copse' as in 'a thicket of small trees.' 'Hurst' as in 'hillock, knoll, or mound.' And 'bourne' as in 'brook or stream.' All of these geological and botanical wonders did seem to conjoin within the twenty parcels of the development, but it was hard to understand why it couldn't have just been called Shady Acres, wh.. | Sue Grafton | ||
| d7d26e0 | Everything happens for a reason but that doesn't mean there is a point. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 9cb9d59 | The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene, | Sue Grafton | ||
| 2f87253 | She was right about one thing: the harm in the world is done by those who feel disenfranchised and abused. Contented people (as a rule) don't kite checks, rob banks, or kill their fellow citizens. | Sue Grafton | ||
| e4742e7 | pretending to do something when you're doing nothing is an art form in itself. | sue grafton | ||
| d99fb37 | Haven't you ever heard of compromise?" "Oh sure," I said. "That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours. I've done that lots of times. It sucks." | Sue Grafton | ||
| 34c9c6e | Some death is as silent as the flight of a bird, some prey as unprotesting as a knot of rags. The | Sue Grafton | ||
| 4c2ea46 | The Universe keeps track of our sins and exacts devious and repugnant punishments, like dates with unknown men. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 87b6f63 | I was determined to run, but my body thought otherwise. (Kinsey Millhone) | Sue Grafton | ||
| 1e3852f | panic inspires gross errors in judgement (Kinsey Millhone) | Sue Grafton | ||
| 2ac2fd4 | The great evangelist D. L. Moody once said, "The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives." -- | Rick Warren | ||
| a9dc420 | I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real. | Rick Moody | ||
| a1c8df0 | Normally, I am a little insecure about myself without a shirt on, as my days of being attractive are now behind me. | insecure | Rick Moody | |
| f5fa462 | The thing you did to alleviate the loneliness was to take off your clothes and touch someone, even if you didn't really know the person well. | Rick Moody | ||
| 14a727c | Never the romance without the bloodshed! | romance | Rick Moody | |
| 6938b48 | I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute. | happiness material-goods things | Rick Moody | |
| 18ba36e | What a dreadful experience for a young boy who just wanted the company of his dad, who just wanted to whack at baseballs in the backyard with the old man, who just wanted to be taught to use a circular saw, who just wanted to learn the rudiments of five-card stud or blackjack, who just wanted to understand the precise location of the clitoris or how to pronounce clitoris, or who wanted to learn how to order meat from a waiter, or who wanted.. | Rick Moody | ||
| 0e52466 | He seemed as though he were habitually preparing himself for something awful, and this was justified because many awful things had happened to him. | Rick Moody | ||
| c6c3dc8 | when any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| d286eb5 | Bill Clinton told the story in 2015, he had to ask his girlfriend to marry him, and come to Arkansas where he was pursuing a political career, three times before she said yes. He recalled telling Hillary Rodham, "I want you to marry me, but you shouldn't do it." Instead, he urged her to go to Chicago or New York to begin a political career of her own. "Oh, my God," he remembered Hillary responding at one point. "I'll never run for office. I.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 247671f | And in order for a new white wokeness to be integrated effectively into a contemporary movement, it must not take it over; there must be acknowledgment that white women are late to the party. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 623ddd8 | Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica. | libraries | Karen Cushman | |
| 9c88236 | The message, if you think about it this way, is all about taking chances because fate or destiny or God will protect you. Take a risk, have a little faith. It's all about life, not death. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 1d8cabe | More lady-lessons. It is impossible to do all and be all a lady must be and not tie oneself in a knot. A lady must walk erect with dignity, looking straight before her with eyelids low, gazing at the ground ahead, neither trotting nor running nor looking about nor laughing nor stopping to chatter. Her hands must be folded below her cloak while at the same time lifting her dress from the floor while at the same time hiding her mouth if her s.. | Karen Cushman | ||
| acda510 | we were too young- and the ground too muddy- for our small part of the earth to move. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 786fe30 | we have on earth exactly the amount of time that has been allotted to us, no more and no less. We really have precious little control. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 4918403 | America, I knew that Negroes had never been allowed to catch the full spirit of Western civilization, that they lived somehow in it but not of it. And when I brooded upon the cultural barrenness of black life, I wondered if clean, positive tenderness, love, honor, loyalty, and the capacity to remember were native with man. I asked myself if these human qualities were not fostered, won, struggled and suffered for, preserved in ritual from on.. | Richard Wright | ||
| a5f345e | quiet. But when no one was looking I would slip into Ella's room and steal a book and take it back of the barn and try to read it. Usually I could not decipher enough words to make the story have meaning. I burned to learn to read novels and I tortured my mother into telling me the meaning of every strange word I saw, not because the word itself had any value, but because it was the gateway to a forbidden and enchanting land. One | Richard Wright | ||
| 2ef73d2 | I knew what was wrong with me, but I could not correct it. The words and actions of white people were baffling signs to me. I was living in a culture and not a civilization and I could learn how that culture worked only by living with it. Misreading the reactions of whites around me made me say and do the wrong things. In my dealing with whites I was conscious of the entirety of my relations with them, and they were conscious only of what .. | Richard Wright | ||
| d0e0adf | As I, in memory, think back now upon those girls and their lives I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a bigger and tougher America than any we have yet known. I feel that America's past is too shallow, her national character too superficially optimistic, her very morality too suffused with color hate for her to accomplish so vast and complex a task. Culturally the Negro represent.. | Richard Wright | ||
| 6e5c4f8 | She twisted from him and ran, nude, to the opposite wall. When he came at her this time SShe screamed again and ran into the kitchen. She flicked on the light and stood nude amid the white refrigerator, the white gas stove, the gleaming sink, the white-topped table. | Richard Wright |