Garters And Hose Quotes & Sayings

When she reaches down to touch his shoulder - a gesture only a few species and a million or so years removed from lifting a leg and marking him as her territory with a stream of urine - enough bracelets and bangles to lay track across the Australian Outback slide down her arm and come to a jangling stop at her wrist. — Elle Lothlorien

I drove out of Dartmouth and after a while Start Bay emerged out of the brightening gloom like the end of a set of parentheses in a book about the natural world. Inside the parentheses was a story about the sea. Outside them, the land: green, red and brown fields, and hills curling over the landscape. I saw small, delicate clumps of snowdrops, big rough patches of gorse, and along the thin road, houses with yellow roses and mimosa growing in their gardens. — Scarlett Thomas

I am afraid of Mr. Powell. I am more afraid of him than I have ever been of shadows or the thunder or when you look through the little bubble in the glass of the window in the upstairs hall and all of the out-of-doors stretches and twists its neck. — Davis Grubb

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man. — Philippa Gregory

The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated. — Victor LaValle