Flournoy Quotes & Sayings

Mothering had come so naturally to Maureen. It was as if another woman had been waiting inside her all along, ready to slip out. She knew how to swing her body so that a baby slept; how to soften her voice; how to curl her hand to support his head. She knew what temperature the water should be in his bath, and when he needed to nap, and how to knit him blue wool socks. He had no idea she knew these things and he had watched with awe, like a spectator from the shadows. It both deepened his love for her and lifted her apart, so that just at the moment when he thought their marriage would intensify, it seemed to lose its way, or at least set them in different places. — Rachel Joyce

A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her. — Angela Flournoy

[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to take it or leave it, in whole or in part; believers in astrology, Marxism and virgin birth abound. But no one can become a scientist unless he presumes that the scientific doctrine and method are fundamentally sound and that their ultimate premises can be unquestionably accepted. — Richard Rhodes

The truth, when finally revealed, is sticky like wet dough. The majority of it stays in place as one handles it, but pieces break off and adhere, making certain facts seem larger, more portentous, than others. — Angela Flournoy

He look like the type to bring a list with him into the bedroom, and he ain't done makin love till he check off everything he got in his mind to do. — Angela Flournoy

Says you and your family. Sooner or later you're gonna realize that just cause a Turner thinks a thing is normal doesn't mean it is. Not at all. — Angela Flournoy

Opting out of telling her that he'd also been lost in thoughts of imprinting on her, Dante instead said, "Give me a number between one and twenty."
Unable to see where this was going, she shrugged. "Eleven."
"You lose. Now strip off your clothes."
She laughed, adoring how roguish he could be sometimes. Despite being a naturally good-humored person, he was only ever this playful with her. — Suzanne Wright

Here is the truth about self-discovery: it is never without cost. — Angela Flournoy

Slavery. Did there ever exist a more annoying way to try to make a modern-day black man feel like his troubles were insignificant, that he should be satisfied with the sorry hand society dealt him? Cha-Cha thought not. The line of reasoning was faulty; it was precisely because his grandfather's father was born a slave that he should expect more from life, and more from this country, to make up for lost time at the very least. "I'm — Angela Flournoy

It was frustrating, the way this siblings worshipped their parents. What part of their worlds would crumble if they took a good look at their parents' flaws? If there was no trauma, why not talk about the everyday, human elements of their upbringing? Call a spade a spade. — Angela Flournoy

The same quality that read as dependable and even-keeled in his youth had crusted over and become stubborn and pitiable. — Angela Flournoy

I don't just sit around hopin for nothing. I do shit. It's the 'hope' part that fucks that line all up. You should change it to somethin like, 'We fight for better things,' or 'We work for better things.' Or 'We plan for better things.' That's what's wrong with this city; it ain't about the mayor. Too many people busy hoping shit will get better to actually figure out a way to make shit better. — Angela Flournoy

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least. — Ken MacLeod

That was how he existed in their lives: suddenly there, on his own time, — Angela Flournoy

ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally. — Michele Flournoy

The words settled on her shoulders like a curse, and one thing was clear: there was no one to save her but her. — Angela Flournoy

You got a child to feed and a life to get on with. — Angela Flournoy

Cha-Cha favored short, earnest prayer, and he often wondered what took others so long., It had something to do with excess supplication, he suspected. He never presented a long list of specific requests to God, had always felt uncomfortable with the presumptuousness of "Ask and you shall receive." This might have been a result of pride, or his own middling ambition, but mostly Cha-Cha's prayers were a series of thank-yous and I'm sorrys. — Angela Flournoy

the loud voice young people who feared the elderly used. — Angela Flournoy

Where do the homeless make toast? — Angela Flournoy

There ain't no haints in Detroit. — Angela Flournoy

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing. — Martha Wainwright

Humans haunt more houses than ghosts do. — Angela Flournoy

The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction ... the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a ready-made weapon or fabricate something improvised that would have a catastrophic effect for us. — Michele Flournoy

You're worried about her forgiving you...but you need to be worrying about why you're acting up in the first place. — Angela Flournoy

It was a particular sort of Turner weakness: self-sabotaging self-righteousness masked as self-reliance. — Angela Flournoy

The things we do in the name of protecting others are so often attempts to spare some part of ourselves. — Angela Flournoy

The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Everybody else cain't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you. — Angela Flournoy