Swacked Quotes & Sayings

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country. — Michael Ondaatje

An enemy of your enemy might be your friend. But a friend of your friend isn't automatically your friend. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The big steel wheels creaked a couple times, then started moving. — Christopher Paul Curtis

To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame. — Mary C. Ames

One of the bonds between Lily and me is that we both suffer with our teeth. She is twenty years my junior but we wear bridges, each of us. Mine are at the sides, hers are in front. She has lost the four upper incisors. It happened while she was still in high school, out playing golf with her father, whom she adored. The poor old guy was a lush and far too drunk to be out on a golf course that day. Without looking or given warning, he drove from the first tee and on the backswing struck his daughter. It always kills me to think of that cursed hot July golf course, and this drunk from the plumbing supply business, and the girl of fifteen bleeding. Damn these weak drunks! Damn these unsteady men! I can't stand these clowns who go out in public as soon as they get swacked to show how broken-hearted they are. But Lily would never hear a single word against him and wept for him sooner than for herself. She carries his photo in her wallet. — Saul Bellow

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. — Ru Freeman

Conversation without you trying to be sexy can still come off as very sexy. Trust me! — Sevyn Streeter

True love allowed each person to follow their own path, knowing that they would never lose touch with their Soul Mate. — Paulo Coelho