Catty Cornered Quotes & Sayings

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant. — Juvenal

I will not share you." Still holding his gaze, she drove her body down onto his. Tiny threads of lightning danced over his skin in a shocking web of blue-white light. He gave a choked cry. His spine arched. His buttocks clenched tight. The tendons in his neck stood out like cords of steel. His hips surged again, powerfully, rising up to meet her downward slide. She felt the shock of it to her bones.
"I will not share," she cried out fiercely, one final time as both of them shattered. — C.L. Wilson

Poor Elinor! Willoughby on one side, Brandon on the other. She is quite entre deux feux. Prudie had a bit of lipstick on her teeth, or else it was wine. Jocelyn wanted to lean across and wipe it off with a napkin, the way she did when Sahara needed tidying. But she restrained herself; Prudie didn't belong to her. The fire sculpted Prudie's face, left the hollows of her cheeks hollow, brightened her deep-set eyes. She wasn't pretty like Allegra, but she was attractive in an interesting way. She drew your eye. She would probably age well, like Angelica Houston. If only she would stop speaking French. Or go to France, where it would be less noticeable. — Karen Joy Fowler

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career. — Helen Fielding

I nodded and grasped the woman by the arm; the cataphracts released her and turned away like silver automata. — Gene Wolfe

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. — Arthur Miller

Failing is often the best way to learn, and because of that, early failure is a kind of necessary investment. — Chip Heath

Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania. — Pam Houston

Because ultimately only the witness
and not the actors
knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi) — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

People with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. — Frank Herbert

Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy? — Laurell K. Hamilton

Many of us have caught a glimpse of our life's greatness - a grander vision that calls us to release our false 'security' and re-engage life. We begin to see life as a heart-beating, truth-telling, sweat-pouring, straight-from-the-gut adventure that makes us, and everyone around us, feel fully alive. — Jim Warner

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'. — David Bronstein

When someone dear to you is lost within the arms of the heaven,they tell you to live without them. But when someone sucks the oxygen out of you, no one can dare to ask you to live without them. — Andy Flynn