Cassimango Quotes & Sayings

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother. — Robyn Peterman

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing. — Jim Crace

No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses. — Irvine Welsh

Bellgrove, eminently lovable, because of his individual weakness, his incompetence, his failure as a man, a scholar, a leader or even as a companion, was neverless utterly alone. For the weak, above all, have their friends. Yet his gentleness, his pretence at authority, his palpable humanity were unable, for some reason or other, to function. He was demonstrably the type of venerable and absent-minded professor about whom all the sharp-beaked boys of the world should swarm. — Mervyn Peake

An utter walkover with a man who can pen a pretty email — Mhairi McFarlane

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. — Charles De Lint

Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of treating their adolescent child like a nonperson ... Adolescents deserve the same civility their parents routinely extend to total strangers. — Laurence Steinberg

As tough as I've been on anybody, as hard as I've ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By far. — Charlie Trotter

As long as I live I will have control over my being. — Artemisia Gentileschi

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun. — Bob Schieffer

I didn't ask for your help," I muttered, too exhausted to properly argue. "So fuck you."
An alarm bell went off in my head and I bit back a sigh. I swore I sensed the mischievous grin that inevitably crossed his lips.
"I already did you."
It was going to be a long drive. — Natasha McNeely

It may be all right, you may have talked about it and agreed it was all right, but that's not how sex works, is it? It's where the unsayable is king; it's where madness and surprise rule; it's where the cheques you write for ecstasy are drawn on the bank of despair. — Julian Barnes

So much depends on our expectations of what our life should be. The less you expect, the more content you are. — Lucinda Riley

Blood was shed that you three might breathe the good air of life, and if that means you have to miss out on a Zibzy game, then so be it. Part of being a man is putting others' needs before your own. — Andrew Peterson