Perentie Quotes & Sayings

Mind you, with all this emphasis on the householder now being able to use 'reasonable force' to protect their home, I wouldn't even consider it. I mean, look what that Farmer Tony Martin did to those creepers! — Stephen Richards

Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again — Saddam Hussein

I like writing fiction better than anything, because just being a writer of fiction gives you an absolutely unassailable protection against reality; nothing is ever seen clearly or starkly, but always through a thin veil of words. — Shirley Jackson

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded. — Nellie Bly

We're both broken people looking for a safe place to land. Maybe this time we've actually found solid ground — Alyssa Rose Ivy

I watch his lips moving and he doesn't seem to notice that I'm about to reach up, unzip myself from the skull down, jump out of my skin, and yell, Surprise! There's a crazy person in here! — Colleen Clayton

Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill. — Gail Collins

Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls. — Lynn Robinson

This life of ours ... human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up
no more flower. — Anton Chekhov