Figwood Vista Quotes & Sayings

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. — Margaret Mahy

Nobody in this band was a musician when they joined up, but everybody was in some kind of trouble. Play con entusiasmo, as loudly as you can, and trust the good will and bad ear of the gringo hellraiser. — Thomas Pynchon

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted. — J.M. Coetzee

I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter? — Denis O'Hare

You always blush when you lie."
"I do not." I felt the flush spread down my neck.
"If you keep lying, I think I will have to leave," he threatened halfheartedly. "I don't feel like my virtue is safe."
"You're virtue?" I huffed. "Whatever."
"I know how you get." His eyes closed. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party. — Julian Critchley

Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch — Gena Showalter

According to Robert Pape, who has created a database of every suicide terrorist attack in the last hundred years, suicide bombing is a nationalist response to military occupation by a culturally alien democratic power.62 It's a response to boots and tanks on the ground - never to bombs dropped from the air. It's a response to contamination of the sacred homeland. — Jonathan Haidt

Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc - where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme. — Amanda Ripley