Fishwife Seaside Quotes & Sayings

Are you quite certain you won't mind having a virgin on your hands?" Not that she imagined she would remain that way for much longer. The penis pressing against her seemed to say that her time as a virgin was down to mere minutes. — Hope C. Tarr

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. — Franz Kafka

Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy ... The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose. — Phil McGraw

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work. — Tony Kushner

You fight them, his father had said.
You don't trust them. His father had been right. And his father had been ready. Rabatians were cowards and deceivers, they should have scattered when their duplicitous attack met the full force of the Akielon army. But for some reason they hadn't fallen at the first sign of a real fight, they had stood firm, and shown metal, and, for hour upon hour, they had fought, until the Akielon lines had begun to slip and falter.
And their general wasn't the king, it was the twenty-five year old prince, holding the field.
Father, I can take him, he'd said.
Then go, his father had said, and bring
us back victory. — C.S. Pacat

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country. — Wilfred Owen

I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home. — Cressida Cowell

ADULTERINE (ADU'LTERINE) n.s.[adulterine, Fr. adulterinus, Lat.]A child born of an adulteress:a term of canon law. — Samuel Johnson

I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance. — Echo Bodine

I just wish I could walk into my Senator's office and say, "Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko scientists ... "
But then again, I don't think we have a Senator, do we? Is there a state where mutant freaks are represented? If so, let me know. — James Patterson

He felt the muscle of his heart rip apart, and there was nothing he could do but watch it bleed all over the dreams he had never meant to have. — Anne Osterlund

Progress is learning to control your world. — Brandon Sanderson

I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty. — Tana French