Pearled Onion Quotes & Sayings

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it. — Sue Grafton

What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud. — Alice Hoffman

Whereas the staff, of course, was devoted to the idea that weak people should be helped as much as possible, that nobody should die. — Kurt Vonnegut

For Padilla the shared act of smoking was basically a staging of loneliness: the tough guys, the talkers, the quick to forget and the long to remember, lost themselves for an instant, the length of time it took the cigarette to burn, an instant in which time was frozen and yet all times in Spanish history were concentrated, all the cruelty and the broken dreams, and in that "night of the soul" the smokers recognized each other, unsurprised, and embraced. The spirals of smoke were the embrace. — Roberto Bolano

He liked her not knowing. I could tell. He liked her not knowing. Her ignorance woke a pleasure that melted on his tongue, like a lick of toffee. — Alice Munro

By choice or by chance, we must actively test our limits to know our capabilities. — Marian Deegan