Sophie Taylor Quotes & Sayings

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas can be shared quietly, they can be communicated in writing, they can be packaged into highly produced lectures, they can be advanced by allies. The trick for introverts is to honor their own styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms. — Susan Cain

One thing I've found ... the road rarely rises up to meet you until you've begun walking. — Michele Jennae

I choose one thing: always to have the laughter on my side. — Soren Kierkegaard

His voice as smooth as silk, Grant started into his standard crowd-pleaser: Sinatra's 'My Kind of Town. — Jennifer Lane

Um, h-h-hi, Sophie stammered, closing the door behind her. Meeting her gaze were crystal eyes like blue shards of glass. — Jennifer Lane

If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states. — Michael Bloomberg

Her recoil confirmed the disgust Grant felt inside. Who was he kidding, trying to put Vladimir and Andrei behind bars? He was no different from his father. Then he remembered Sophie's words.
"You're not like them. You're my McSailor."
A soft touch made him smile, thinking of Bonnie, before he realized it was Innochka's hand stroking his face. The touch of a mobster's girlfriend. He leaped back, still crouched on his feet. — Jennifer Lane

What harm can it do to find out? It's a question that left bruises down the centuries, even more than "It can't hurt if I only take one" and "It's all right if you only do it standing up. — Terry Pratchett

In myth, women's boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is penetrated, she suffers metamorphoses. The women of mythology regularly lose their form in monstrosity. — Anne Carson

Sophie clutched Grant tighter. 'I don't know what screwed-up messages from your family are floating around in your head right now, but you're staying right here. — Jennifer Lane

Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power. — Auberon Waugh

That could have happened, really, it could have, if he hadn't shoved his muzzle into her crotch. Her breath swooshed out of her as she stood there in shock. He. Was. Sniffing. Her. Pussy. And she didn't know what to do. — Milly Taiden

I'm glad I went to prison," Grant rasped in Sophie's ear, so quietly only she could hear. "Because then I found you. — Jennifer Lane

The target of Melanie Thernstrom's The Dead Girl is, I think, an interesting one: — David Shields

Are you saying the end of human suffering began with an amusement park?"
"I'm saying the end of human suffering is a myth."
"But everyone's happy."
"You think that just because a person doesn't question the way the system works that means they agree with it? And if they do agree that must mean they're happy? Are you happy? — T.S. Welti

Speaking of banging, when's McSailor getting home?" Kirsten's smirk was the size of Texas.
Sophie had to smile. "Crude. You're crude, roomie. — Jennifer Lane

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. — Kofi Annan

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. — J. A. Jance

He pulled her toward him and gathered her in his arms as his hand lovingly cradled the back of her neck. She stopped breathing as he leaned down - ohmigod, the Adonis was about to kiss her - and planted the softest, most sensual kiss on her lips.
Time stood still on the busy Chicago street. — Jennifer Lane

Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I'm on parole, that I'm not really free. — Jennifer Lane