Vonau Auction Quotes & Sayings

How she felt when he kissed her- like a tub of roses swimming in honey, cologne, nutmeg and blackberries. — Samuel Sullivan Cox

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. — Ernest Hemingway,

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of. — Will Shields

I'll never forget that Depression Easter Sunday. Our son was four years old. I bought ten or fifteen cents' worth of eggs. You didn't get too many eggs for that. But we were down. Margaret said, 'Why he'll find those in five minutes.' I had a couple in the piano and all around. Tommy got his little Easter basket, and as he would find the eggs, I'd steal 'em out of the basket and re-hide them. The kid had more fun that Easter than he ever had. He hunted Easter eggs for three hours and he never knew the difference. (Laughs.) "My son is now thirty-nine years old. And I bore him to death every Easter with the story. He never even noticed his bag full of Easter eggs never got any fuller. . . . — Studs Terkel

The freedom of living loved extends into every aspect of parenting because I can release my death-grip of control. It enables me to extend to my tinies the gifts of freedom (age appropriate, of course) and grace, second chances and then more grace. It means that I don't really care what people think of them or me, I can look only to God, living counter to our culture in every way of truth, love, faith, mercy and justice. — Sarah Bessey

For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing. Once we know the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense of satisfaction and completion, we can then observe which of our various life endeavors bring us closest to that fullness. — Audre Lorde

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles. — Anton Chekhov

The material was wrinkled, yet even in the low light it remembered the shape of two bodies. — Laura Whitcomb