Starkers Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain. — Arlene Blum

Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell. — Cassandra Clare

Ideas are the easy part. I spend a lot of time batting them away, trying to keep them from distracting me from what I actually have to focus on and finish. A lot of times, they are a siren temptress beckoning me with the promise of a much shorter, simpler, more slender novel over the horizon, but of course that's very dangerous. — Michael Chabon

From flophouse bed
To poorhouse bread,
all outhouse sorrow:
I thee wed. — Roman Payne

Parts of rural China are seeing a burgeoning market for female corpses, the result of the reappearance of a strange custom called "ghost marriages." Chinese tradition demands that husbands and wives always share a grave. Sometimes, when a man died unmarried, his parents would procure the body of a woman, hold a "wedding," and bury the couple together... A black market has sprung up to supply corpse brides. Marriage brokers - usually respectable folk who find brides for village men - account for most of the middlemen. At the bottom of the supply chain come hospital mortuaries, funeral parlors, body snatchers - and now murderers.
- "China's Corpse Brides: Wet Goods and Dry Goods" The Economist, July 26, 2007 — Danica Novgorodoff

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven. — Henry Rollins

Imagine if we were capable of a form of empathy that lets us know one another by savoring the aura we leave on the things we have touched. We would go to a dump to get drunk on one another's souls. — Robin Nagle

Two late goals, both in the last twenty minutes ... — Jon Champion

I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment. — Caroline Shaw