Paste Special Quotes & Sayings

Women are sensitive to it, to the weight of the desiring gaze. — J.M. Coetzee

She would be very much annoyed," he said to himself, "if she should see that ... she would cough most dreadfully, and she would pretend that she was dying, to avoid being laughed at. And I should be obliged to pretend that I was nursing her back to life
for if I did not do that, to humble myself also, she would really allow herself to die ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

He turned up the car radio and punched buttons until he found something loud and thumpingly exultant, some piece of jolly stupidity from AC/DC. — Tad Williams

What on earth was she doing with her life? Could she just get up and leave? — Kate Atkinson

One thing you can say about daughters and mothers - like it or not, they know the truth about each other. — Deb Caletti

A thousand years of dominion went ringing across the Thames like a trumpet blast. Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Norman ancestry combined in a chord that had deafened and conquered nations. It expected the moon to bow the knee. If not, so much the worse for the moon. — Ariana Franklin

We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same. — Marianne Williamson

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do. — Garth Ennis

What a person cares about most of all determines the quality of his life. — Sunday Adelaja