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"If your brains were dynamite at that place wouldn't be plenty to blow your hat off." ― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
"Correct before the game, she strolled upward to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain." "Will yous finish calling me that?" She knows I hate that proper noun, mostly because I never accept a good improvement. She's the daughter of Athena, which doesn't give me a lot of ammunition. I mean, "Owl-head" and "Wise Daughter" are kind of lame insults." ― Rick Riordan, The Demigod Files
"I'd heard you were dead." "I heard you wear a ruby lace corset," I said affair-of-factly. "But I don't believe equally of nonsense that gets rumored about." ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
"Peter to Austin: "Hard-ons don't make you think less. They brand you recollect stupid. Which makes me remember you must have one 24/7." ― Dani Alexander, Shattered Glass
"People who repeatedly set on your conviction and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you lot are non." ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
"Mousedung!" ― Erin Hunter
"I don't mind if yous don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long wintertime evenings." ― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
"The sun never has an inferiority circuitous. It shines the aforementioned whether above or below." ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
"Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was simply trying to put us downward over again. Maybe zippo did work out right for her, only that doesn't mean nosotros are doomed. Let'due south go forth tomorrow with no keen expectations of finding perfection. And then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't be disappointed." If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, skilful for him. But later all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a mountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day frontward, I vowed to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, or dominate me in whatsoever manner. From this day forward, I was my own person, to have what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'd been kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed, deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... only all that was over at present." ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
"I should adopt that you do not mention my name at all in connexion with this case, as I choose to exist only associated with those crimes which nowadays some difficulty in their solution." ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Chance of the Paper-thin Box
"You are mean considering inside you're tiny. And so tiny you cannot concord up the weight of your own body. You must inflate your ego just to fill up the skin. You float around like a helium balloon. Blown up and bloated and gassy and empty." ― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts
"[Jean Harlow] 'Say - aren't you Margot Asquith?' (pronouncing the difficult 't') [Margot Asquith] 'Yes Dear, But the 't' is silent, equally in Harlow." ― Margot Asquith
"Little people demand to belittle." ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
"I'm not sure I've turned your Commander inside out, only I tin assure you if that iron skillet was empty, I would bring him down a peg or two." ― Julia Mills, Her Dragon To Slay
"Cathy, don't wait so defeated. She was but trying to put u.s. downwardly again. Maybe naught did piece of work out right for her, but that doesn't mean nosotros are doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't be disappointed." ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
"I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. Nonetheless, I was beaten down past the lamentable fears of my gender- women who didn't permit you lot to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless information technology fell beneath how they thought about themselves." ― Shannon L. Alder
"Your perfume. . .' His tone held a faint hint of surprise. 'I'd somehow expected you to wear something more. . .sultry. I don't recognize this fragrance.' 'It'south new," Courtenay said tersely. 'It'south called Get Lost. Y'all've probably never encountered it before." ― Grace Light-green, Winter Destiny
"A joke sounds like a joke. An insult sounds like an insult. Nigh people, nowadays, trying to be funny, smuggle insult into jokes." ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Volume of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
"...And where's Margaret Pier? I know she's not dead, even if she's most as old equally I am and twice as stubborn."
"She said she'd never set foot inside this house once again. Not afterwards what you said the final time."
"Did I say something dreadful?"
"Y'all said blind Republicanism like hers was an inherited social disease, like syphilis. You said it. I heard you lot myself." ― Helen Hudson, The Listener and Other Stories
"He is only a hole in the air." ― George Orwell
"In my experience, insecure people constantly need to show that they are superior to others, whether they are or non, and they will ofttimes stoop to unscrupulous tactics to reach this, the about mutual being to persistently mock, criticize, and put others down, the objective being to lower the status of the other person in the eyes of others, thus easing their own feelings of insecurity, and inadequacy. Secure people, on the other hand, exercise not accept this need." ― Robert Black, Laowai
"I should detest to exist employed and have no time for my needlework and my painting and playing the piano and seeing people. I find I take little enough spare time as information technology is." "Rubbish, caro, 1 tin find time for important things if one makes an effort." conversation between Georgie and Lucia" ― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant
"Critic vent spleen to eviscerate the more competent." ― Stewart Stafford
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