Rapporteren Quotes & Sayings

Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen. — Andre Dubus III

That's a Christian concept. No self-respecting witch would worship a Christian god of evil. — Katherine Kurtz

Things die, too, you know. And so, if they too have to die, well there it is, it is so much better to let them go — Giorgio Bassani

No wonder all her mother taught her was how to run and hide. — Thea Harrison

The trouble with women is that they talk too much. It would be good if human beings would keep as silent as this cat. — Soseki Natsume

You were joking about the whole please and thank you thing, right?"
"Meant every word." A little light danced in his eyes and he very deliberately said, "Baby."
No.
He laughed. "You should see your face right now."
"Don't call me that."
"Would you prefer 'darling'? Or maybe 'cupcake'?" He winked. — Ilona Andrews

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. — Anne Lamott

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows. — Isabella Bird

. . . they lurk passively, like vampire sheep — Margaret Atwood

Love's the son
stood stammering elocution
while the poor ship in flames went down — Elizabeth Bishop