Big Sister Sorority Quotes & Sayings

Tick's strategy for dealing with lying adults is to say nothing and watch thee lies swell and constrict in their throats. when this happens, the lie takes on a physical life of its own and must be either expelled or swallowed. Most adults prefer to expel untruths with little burplike coughs behind their hands, while others chuckle or snort or make barking sounds. When Mr. Meyer's Adam's apple bobs once, Tick sees that he's a swallower, and that this particular lie has gone south down his esophagus and into his stomach. According to her father, the man suffers from bleeding ulcers. Tick can see why. She imagines all the lies a man in his position would have to tell, how they must just churn away down there in his intestines like chunks of indigestible food awaiting elimination. By the Tick suspects, lies seek open air. they don't like being confined in dark, cramped places. — Richard Russo

Awakened by the oppressive midday heat, Zach opened his eyes to see a small blue and tan lizard doing what looked like push-ups about a foot away from his face. — Pamela Clare

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance. — C. JoyBell C.

Carl was just saying good-bye," Mom said.
"Really," I said. "He must speak in tongues. — Neal Shusterman

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion. — Chloe Grace Moretz

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown. — Erma Bombeck

A map shows maybes. — Catherynne M Valente

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. — E. O. Wilson

They talk o' rich folks bein' stuck up and genteel, but for iron-clad pride o' respectability there's nowt like poor chapel folk. Why, 'tis as cold as the wind on Greenhow Hill
aye, and colder, too, for 'twill never change. — Rudyard Kipling

Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world's last banana. — Philip Kerr

Rumors spread fast, and they grow. I know. You want to either deny them, or disarm them — L.J.Smith

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years. — James Montgomery