Eventuating Quotes & Sayings

Motherhood makes you a dealer in death. No one tells you this beforehand. You will become obsessed with all the ways a person can go because while it might be easy to deal with the fact that you will one day die, it's not at all easy - totally unacceptable - to deal with the fact that one day your child will die. Do — Samantha Hunt

As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book. — Steven Curtis Chapman

Hubert complains that the electric wastebasket has been overheating. I haven't noticed it but that's what Hubert says and Hubert is rarely wrong about things that don't matter. The electric wastebasket is a security item. Papers dropped into it are destroyed instantly. How the electric wastebasket accomplishes this is not known. An intimidation followed by a demoralization eventuating in a disintegration, one assumes. It is not emptied. There are not even ashes. — Donald Barthelme

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. — Mark Twain

**A Dedication from Brent Weeks to his older Brother**
For Kevin, because it's a big brother's job to make a little brother tough. What you taught me, I've needed. (But I never have been right since that dirt clod incident.) — Brent Weeks

For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud. — Marie Lu

On previous trips the pirates have stolen valuables, killed people, raped and abducted girls ... the women work frantically to ugly themselves up by smearing black charcoal paste on their faces and bodies. With ashen faces, some of the younger, prettier girls reach into the bags we have vomited into and scoop out handfuls of it to smear on their hair and clothes. — Loung Ung

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity. — Mike Leigh

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of. — Shannon L. Alder