Spackled Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental. — Robbie Williams

A story is a labyrinth, it looks as if there were several ways to go, but only one is right, and there's a nasty surprise ready to punish you for every false step. — Cornelia Funke

Sentimentality is only emotion you haven't proven to the reader - emotion without vivid evidence. — Mary Karr

Grey's OK on a man,' says Mary-Anne. 'Silver fox and all that.' Ruth notices that Frank doesn't seem to mind this description. She also muses that there isn't a female equivalent to 'silver fox'. 'Grey-haired old bat' doesn't cover it somehow. — Elly Griffiths

My front door had seen jean skirts, dresses, even a see-through tube dress over a string bikini. A handful of times, spackled-on makeup and glitter lotion. Never pajamas. — Jamie McGuire

Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader? — Rainbow Rowell

Somewhere in the middle of the second glass that Mad Sweeney himself began to throw both details and irrelevancies into Ibis's narrative (" ... such a girl she was, with breasts cream-colored and spackled with freckles, with the tips of them the rich reddish pink of the sunrise on a day when it'll be bucketing down before noon but glorious again by supper ... ") and then Sweeney was trying, with both hands, to explain the history of the gods in Ireland, wave after wave of them as they came in from Gaul and from Spain and from every damn place, each wave of them transforming the last gods into trolls and fairies and every damn creature until Holy Mother Church herself arrived and every god in Ireland was transformed into a fairy or a saint or a dead king without so much as a by-your-leave ... Mr. — Neil Gaiman

I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside. — Ned Vizzini

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. — Townsend Harris

You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned. — Max Levchin

What if Sam's heart got broken again? As with most kids who are fourteen, it has been spackled and duct-taped and caulked back together many times as it is. [p. 258] — Anne Lamott