Boxful Storage Quotes & Sayings

What if I said I wanted a friend?' The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. 'Or a lover? That's how you make a person, yes? By affection and intimacy. By touches like knives in a salted bed. — Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life. — Gough Whitlam

Love, why have you sought the horde
of spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford? — Hilda Doolittle

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'Yes, OK, but so what if I was!' Interrupted Jane. 'What if I was! That's my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?'
Madeline found herself without words. To be fat and ugly actually would be the end of the world for her.
'It's because A woman's entire self-worth rests on her looks,' said Jane. 'That's why. it's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a women can do is make herself attractive to men.
. — Liane Moriarty

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. — William Shenstone

There's no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You can't go round looking like a rag. — Gin Wigmore

Some people are just right for you. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

I couldn't have articulated this process at the time; I just sort of did it instinctually. But now when I talk about this with my students all the time, it's one of the first things I address in memoir classes - that you have to put it all in because you're writing your way into the ending of your own story. Even if you think you know what the story is, you don't until you write it. If you start leaving things out you could leave out vital organs and not know it. — Melissa Febos

My good sense bitch slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback. — Ben Marcus

The Confederate flag was the flag of the American South during the civil war. It was the flag of people who were fighting against their own government in an attempt to retain slavery. It was the flag of people who thought slavery was no problem, who thought slavery was a good thing. — John Niven