Puddletown Quotes & Sayings

The best way to kill a good thing is question it to death. — Chuck Hogan

Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful. — Margaret Atwood

I've a great sense of privacy. WRiters have to have an angle. If you say less than what you m ight tell your husband or your doctor, then You're 'mysterious'...Basically, I don't like the one-sided talk about myself. I don't enjoy the process of cross-examination: I find it absolutely sapping, I've been made mistrustful by being burned." -Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn, A Photographic Celebration — Suzanne Lander

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. — Jose Marti

I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone. — Elayne Boosler

The way you walked away
The way you stopped and waited
All that time
What was in your heart?
A laugh?
A sarcasm?

Couldn't we be lovers?
Though we have never walked together — Shasika Amali Munasinghe

If I were to give any religious person advice, it would be to not hold their beliefs above others. — Travis Culliton

The Man's rage is huge. Moil and toil and turmoil, he's coming to the boil, time to cool the heat with a jet of foam. He wants the woman to take off her clothes right away. So that she measures up to his size. He wants to conduct his lightning into her. Not that his wildfire could ever be tamed by her, and anyway he has plenty of matches. To create himself anew, as often as need be. — Elfriede Jelinek

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous ... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for ... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time. — Cynthia Heimel

I want to touch you. Hold you. I want to sit right next to you, even when there are other options. — Rainbow Rowell

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? — Alphonse De Lamartine

We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation. — Edward Felten

booth. The other two women face them. — Jonathan Kellerman