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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4c400a9 | Best would have been if I'd died, I guess, but there wasn't much chance of that, not right off anyway... Next best was to make me want to die, but I had enough spite in me to want to live, usually. | Isabel Miller | ||
| da66542 | It breaks my heart to think of childhood, everybody bigger and whacking and shouting and teaching you not to reach for anything or look at anything, and not letting up on you till you get over wanting to. | Isabel Miller | ||
| 01b9d5c | A tic in Angel's cheek testified to the cost of her restraint, and Sarah fought an impulse to just let the eruption happen. But caution held her back. Maybe another time. Another place. Away from here. | Maryann Miller | ||
| d663bce | Would she have enjoyed a more natural parent-child fit if she'd been an introvert herself? Not necessarily. Introverted parents can face challenges of their own. Sometimes painful childhood memories can get in the way. Emily Miller, a clinical social worker in Ann Arbor, Michigan, told me about a little girl she treated, Ava, whose shyness was so extreme that it prevented her from making friends or from concentrating in class. Recently she .. | Susan Cain | ||
| 649a0cc | Just as she placed herself daily between the children and the hazards of the house and yard, Charles stood between all of them and everything beyond the bounds of their claim. | Sarah Miller | ||
| 6240609 | Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. - Joshua 1:9 | Sarah Miller | ||
| 6569fe8 | But gracious, it was beautiful, that glass. Clear and cool and smooth, and ever so faintly blue, like ice. Caroline lifted the top pane to the firelight, and the edges seemed to glow. She put a hand to her chest, to keep from floating away. Four panes for the east, four for the west. He had bought her sunlight and moonlight, sunrises and sunsets. She would be able to see clear to the creek road and the bluffs beyond, all winter long. Come s.. | Sarah Miller | ||
| 9e33d1d | Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. - Philippians 4:6 | Sarah Miller | ||
| bf24084 | and there was a smile on his face. He was enjoying this. "Rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, 'Son of David, have mercy on me!' Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came" | Sarah Miller | ||
| 964c596 | a wedding is just a party by another name. | Sarah Morgan | ||
| 39fa6aa | There ought to have been layer cakes, and cookies, and squiggles of boiled sugar candy, Caroline thought as she sat vigil by the bake oven. Swedish crackers, vinegar pie, dried apple pie. The cabin should be heady with brown sugar and clove, and the rich velvety scent of beans and salt pork lazily bubbling in molasses. At the very least, a dried blackberry pie. | Sarah Miller | ||
| db9f8e6 | tried to look strong as she walked to the house. She knew she could not kid her | Sarah Miller | ||
| 32b9d95 | The girl seriously creeped Sarah out. The guy was bad enough. Here was this teenage girl who should be out texting her friends, playing on Facebook, or playing sports. What she should not be doing, is hanging out in weird ass dungeons torturing and eating people. That's fucked up shit for grown-ups, let alone kids. | Tim Miller | ||
| 5330f3f | L'emozione di aver ritrovato Ash Miller lo aveva messo al tappeto, consapevole che la cattiveria con cui lo aveva trattato tanto tempo prima era ancora in grado di provocare dolore. | quixote-edizioni sarah-bernardinello | Sarah Bernardinello | |
| cfd2e74 | How much of what they loved in her was real, and how much was fashioned from what they envisioned her to be? | Sarah Miller | ||
| 162fe03 | Faith is the belief that this life is not our only chance. Wavering of faith means beginning to believe in this life and wanting to live it, denying all duties and dashing off uncontrolled. | Isabel Miller | ||
| 1410932 | She had kept her sadness so carefully lidded these last two days that it had thickened into a stock so rich she could smell the salt before she tasted it. Caroline's throat narrowed so she could scarcely draw breath. Only a long thin note, too high to hear, seeped steadily through to warm the roof of her mouth. | Sarah Miller | ||
| 16fa30f | TOM ... Go on, jump in there. (Prompts her.) Be brave. HELEN You're absolutely sure it's dead, right? Because if it's just holding its breath, then I'm ... LaBute, Neil (2004-11-29). Fat Pig: A Play (p. 27). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition. | Neil LaBute | ||
| 7c37095 | things get worked through...or work themselves through, we probably don't have all that much to do with it. we like to think we do, though, right? | Neil LaBute | ||
| 725b5f5 | see, we been doing things wrong for so long now that it all starts to feel okay after a while, you know, like this is how it oughta be. | Neil LaBute | ||
| e53f229 | HELEN You, too, Tom. You're a good man. (Kisses him back.) Good and strong and brave and ... ummmm ... lots of nice things ... TOM ... mmmmmm. I love it when you talk dirty. | Neil LaBute | ||
| eb4f8c0 | but sometimes you can go along, years even, and not feel like you're growing up at all, and then there's times when you age a ton, like, in a couple 'a seconds, you know? | Neil LaBute | ||
| 5ad02c8 | MAN No doubt about that--I can't even call 'em "girls" without getting hit by a lawsuit, so ... (Grins.) You're a librarian? WOMAN Yeah. Well, we don't really use that term anymore, but, ahh ... MAN Sure, of course! It's probably, like, "printed-word specialist" or something now, I suppose ... WOMAN Exactly." | Neil LaBute | ||
| e71b89d | JEANNIE It's not like she's ... She's really fat, Tom! A fat sow and you know it. I can tell you're aware by the way you're acting, which is really the puzzling part ... TOM I-like-her. End of story. | Neil LaBute | ||
| a10a895 | WOMAN Really? Handsome guy like you and that's all you're good for ... to look at? MAN Pretty much. WOMAN Good to know. (Opens a pudding.) You want one? MAN Nah, I shouldn't ... WOMAN Why? MAN Excellent question. Okay. | Neil LaBute | ||
| 1326782 | CARTER It's whatever. Truth. People are not comfortable with difference. You know? Fags, retards, cripples. Fat people. Old folks, even. They scare us or something. | Neil LaBute | ||
| 49c863f | CARTER Come on, be honest! The thing they represent that's so scary is what we could be, how vulnerable we all are. I mean, any of us. Some wrong gene splice, a bad backflip off the trampoline ... too many cartons of Oreos! We're all just one step away from being what frightens us. What we despise. So ... we despise it when we see it in anybody else. | Neil LaBute | ||
| c2f0d7d | TOM Come on! Seriously ... HELEN Okay, okay ... I'm ... (Beat.) You have my hand there, you know. TOM Yeah, I ... is that not ...? HELEN It's fine. Just wanted to ask and see if it was an accident or not. TOM Umm ... no. It wasn't, no. But ... now you're making me self-conscious. | Neil LaBute | ||
| fb9da32 | this was a thing you keep up on in high school, girls you secretly like but can't get at 'cause they're dating somebody, maybe a friend, and so you file 'em away and hope the guy joins the army and gets sent to laos or something... | Neil LaBute | ||
| d8ab536 | Look, you're not French, let's face it . . . and who wants to be, anyway, in this day and age? Being French is way past cool. | Neil LaBute | ||
| c1eef15 | WRITER Actors come and go, pal--you guys are the furniture, okay? What I write is the house. Let's not get all precious about it . . . | Neil LaBute | ||
| f62c374 | WRITER So, go on then, get all smart about it--can you deny what I'm saying? Huh? Jesus was not some . . . Indonesian guy! He just wasn't. ACTOR I'm not Indonesian! Jesus Christ! | Neil LaBute | ||
| ff99678 | What's the South African thing that I always mix up with "apathy"? (Thinks.) "Apartheid!" That wasn't me, so just get down off your high horse, okay?" | Neil LaBute | ||
| 8fae679 | WRITER Right, but no offense, you guys eat dogs for lunch and many of us in the West here find that disgusting, so . . . ACTOR I'm not Korean, you prick! I'm of Chinese descent but I was born in Idaho! I-da-ho. You got that? / My God . . . | Neil LaBute | ||
| cd838a2 | MAN 3 . . . fuck, I'm glad I'm a guy! You know? MAN 5 Yeah, why's that? Pause. MAN 3 . . . because then I don't have to date 'em. | Neil LaBute | ||
| cff7f5d | TOM Old people, though? Come on. We're all gonna age. It's ... CARTER Not me. I hope I'm a goner before then. The elderly make me sick ... | Neil LaBute | ||
| ef56df8 | Listen, I speak from experience when I say . . . just because some man doesn't have one does not necessarily mean that he can't be one. | Neil LaBute | ||
| 450717a | What the fuck do I mean? I mean . . . (Beat.) Well, I, shit, I dunno! But you see what I'm getting at, don't you? | Neil LaBute | ||
| ac3b1a5 | WAITRESS 1 Actually, the last thing I want is to be alone, but . . . the other last thing is to be with someone. | Neil LaBute | ||
| ee71bfd | I mean, I'm as fucked up and miserable as the next person, but I don't let it get me down. You know? | Neil LaBute | ||
| 87a7f3d | WAITRESS 2 Then, the topper . . . an elbow to the ribs . . . "Hey, you make it?" Really sensitive, like we've got a fucking recipe for an orgasm!" | Neil LaBute | ||
| ebe678d | WAITRESS 1 What do I hope for in a guy? Everything . . . Pause. WAITRESS 1 What do I expect? Not much . . . Pause. WAITRESS 1 What'll I take? Usually . . . anything . . . | Neil LaBute | ||
| 406ee94 | I get a bunch of productions in, like, Germany and Poland . . . It doesn't matter, places. | Neil LaBute | ||
| c4771d1 | When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it. | Lawrence Block |