Grapefruits And Blood Quotes & Sayings

You were never really my father, he might say, or You were the only father I ever knew. Both statements were equally true, no matter how contradictory. When — Cassandra Clare

John Mandrake was an attractive young man, and the scent of power hung about him, sweet and intoxicating, like honeysuckle in the evening air. — Jonathan Stroud

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. — Robert Plant

I read on the Internet that I was dead. — Fiona Apple

But then I realized, they didn't mean their own mothers. Not those weak women, those victims. Drug addicts, shopaholics, cookie bakers. They didn't mean the women who let them down, who failed to help them into womanhood. They didn't mean the mothers washing dishes wishing they'd never married, the ones in the ER, saying they fell down the stairs, not the ones in prison saying loneliness is the human condition.
They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of a fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled, someone deep and rich as a field, a wide hipped mother, auwesome, immense, women like huge soft couches, mothers coursing with blood, mothers big enough, wide enough, for us to hide in, to sink down to the bottom of, mothers who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, mothers who would fight for us, who would kill for us, and die for us. — Janet Fitch

It is far easier to be wise for others than to be so for oneself. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If I masturbate while Googling myself, which part is more redundant? — Dana Gould

To preserve one notion of goodness and righteousness you destroy another. To uphold one principle you sacrifice another. — Krishna Udayasankar

I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick. — Lita Ford

You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live. — Raphael Saadiq

I'm so lucky to have a family, adopted or not! I'm so lucky to be alive! Judy Ellis Taylor tells her three school-age girls ... They roll their eyes. — Shireen Jeejeebhoy

America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language. — James Traficant

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here. — Barbara Kingsolver