Mail Merge Quotes & Sayings

A few years ago, long after it had been closed, Eli said he saw a girl swimming in it, coming out of the water in a bikini, laughing at her frigthtened boyfriend, seaweed snaking around her. He said she looked like a mermaid.
Deenie always pictured it like in one of those books of mythology she used to love, a girl rising from the foam gritted with pearls, mussels, the glitter of the sea.
"It looks beautiful", her mother had said once when they were driving by at night, its waters opaline. "It is beautiful. But it makes people sick."
To Deenie, it was one of many interesting things that adults said would kill you: Easter lilles, jellyfish, copperhead snakes with their diamond heads, tails bright as sulfur. Don't touch, don't taste, don't get too close.
And then, last week. — Megan Abbott

Government is not a warfare of interests. — Woodrow Wilson

If we in the church want a cause to fight, let's fight sin. Let's reveal its hideousness. Let's show that Jeremiah was correct when e said: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" [Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV]. — Billy Graham

What we should lament is not the loss of houses or of land, but the loss of men's lives. Men come first; the rest is the fruit of their labour. — Thucydides

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? — Henry Ward Beecher

I very much feel like I'm part of the makeup of 'Once Upon a Time.' — Jamie Dornan

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders. — Thomas Sowell

Fifteen minutes, a myriad of cups, kleenexes and freshly-vacuumed floor mats and seat cushions later, Kay had the interior of the limousine looking ship-shape. Inching backward out of the car on her knees, she caught a glimpse of one last bit of trash she'd missed hiding under the driver's seat. Lowering her chest to the floor, she stretched her arm under the seat as far as it would go. She grabbed the item and pulled it out and raised herself up from her crouched position. She took one look at the used condom swinging from her fingers, screamed and flung it across the top of the front seat, where it stuck to the air conditioner vents on the dash. She knelt there staring at the thin latex mess, a million scenarios racing through her mind. — Delora Dennis

You're a nice boy," she chuckled harshly. "You must come round here one evening. I'll teach you something you didn't know before. — Christopher Isherwood

The future generations will look at the leaders of our time and laugh at their arrogant conviction on their ignorance. — Daniel Marques

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. — Josef Albers

The trouble with most people is they think there's only one right way to do anything. — Velda Johnston

You know how writers are ... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves. — Orson Scott Card