Trishysquishy Quotes & Sayings

Margaux looks around the table; this is not working. All of a sudden she's thinking about a safe room, something she's only heard of but suddenly wants: water, oxygen, bulletproof door, dead bolts, a thousand books. Utterly quiet. Completely silent. No girls she barely knows in saggy leather pants, no girls in mesh strippers' gloves and jeans sanded thin as a bee's wing, and no girls who can't stay home one night a year because they are always and forever out. On their way to. Coming from.
And then her heart open. Just a little, but it does. Because she remembers all that. How she felt then: the self-reproach, the utter confusion ... That's why her heart opens. For those girls at the table who always feel baffled and sad, tender and malign, repulsive and desirable, innocent and contemptuous of innocence.
So she cries. For them, mostly. For herself a little ... everything hesitates. So that for a second there's no sound in the enormous room but that of Margaux sobbing. — Ron Koertge

he was as if a "reborn" human being, a "fundamentalist" as a human being. — Gao Xingjian

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability. — John Steinbeck

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business. — Robert Breault

If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life. — Bryce Harper

The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems. — Simon Baron-Cohen

The Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly said that America is not at war with Islam. And Republicans need to be vocal about condemning anyone, in America or abroad, who seeks to lump all Muslims together as America's enemies. America is not at war with Islam, and Republicans must continue to follow President Bush's example in condemning any expressions of prejudice against Muslims. — Margaret Hoover

Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really works. My very favorite characters tend to be ones I can go back to and look at, and have no idea how they popped out of my head. — Neil Gaiman

You look good," I tell my reflection. "Hot?" But this last part comes out with a question mark at the end. I've never been good at sales. — Matthew Norman

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. — John Mortimer

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. — Anonymous

Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population! — Neale Donald Walsch

Do not settle for letting these waves settle, or the dust to collect in your veins. — Anis Mojgani