The Gilded Cuff Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Grabby Hands has issued you an order. — Lauren Smith

When we liberate ourselves from the idea of parenting success, we liberate our children from failure, all without accomplishing a single thing. — Karen Maezen Miller

There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation. Now one knows why one made such a fuss about it. It had to be with one for a long time; it had to travel; it had to occupy space; it had to be a burden; and now it has reached the goal of its voyage, now it reveals itself, now it illuminates the twenty bygone years it mutely lived with one. It could not say so much if it had not been there mutely the whole time, and what idiot would dare to assert that the same things had always been in it. — Elias Canetti

Spooning leads to forking. — Rachel Spangler

As long as you don't tell your father that I seduced you, tied you to my bed and made love to you, then treated you like my personal sex slave, I'll probably make it through the meeting alive. Explaining dominant behavior isn't exactly easy. I'll be lucky if he doesn't kill me. — Lauren Smith

Stay, Sophie. Looking at you makes me feel better." Cody shot a more energetic grin at his employer and friend.

"Why?" she asked.

"You're hot, babe." Cody shot a wicked smirk at his boss.

"Cody, find your own hot woman to drool over." A war of looks began between the two men, half sneers and mockingly threatening scowls.

"Can't. Stuck in this damn bed. So I'll borrow yours. — Lauren Smith

Then we started looking at story and what was making sense and what wasn't making sense, emotionally and thematically the intention that we had a year earlier when they were working on the script, did all that come across? It's all kind of generic things, but it's fascinating and it's weird - I haven't made that many films, but it's weird that every time you think you learn from your mistakes on your last film you have a slew of new mistakes and things that you learn. — Bryan Burk

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy. — Alfred A. Montapert

He will always find me. He will always save me. He's my family now. I am his. Forever — Sarah Brianne

Well, aren't you a wet dream. — Lauren Smith

Then she said sometimes the ways boys need things so badly, like they could never stop needing, it almost scared her. — Megan Abbott

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end. — Jack Dempsey

In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief. — Emily Giffin

Jacey, you try and see the good in everyone. That's your mistake. You think that if you look hard enough, you'll find it, that everyone has something in them that deserves you. But that's so fucking wrong. Very few people deserve you. And that includes me. — Courtney Cole

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others. — Charles Stross

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people. — Jim Knight

It only took Romeo one look at Juliet and his fate was sealed. Maybe I'm just like my namesake, and maybe you're just like yours. — Tillie Cole

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. — Bo Bennett

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. — William Shakespeare