Wellesandra Quotes & Sayings

Parking himself on the chaise lounge, he stared at the gown that Lassiter had handled so roughly. The fine satin was bunched up in waves, the disorder creating a wonderful, shimmering display over on the bed.
"My beloved is dead," he said out loud.
As the sound of the words faded, something was suddenly, stupidly clear: Wellesandra, blooded daughter of Relix, was never filling out that bodice again. She was never going to put the skirting over her head and wriggle into the corset, or free the ends of her hair from the lace-ups in the back. She wasn't going to look for matching shoes, or get pissed off because she sneezed right after she put her mascara on, or worry about whether she was going to spill on the skirting.
She was ... dead. — J.R. Ward

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse. — Joseph Conrad

Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go. — Debora Spar

When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour. — Adam Derek Scott

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life. — Ornette Coleman

When the brain perceives you are no longer reproductive because your hormones are out of balance, it tries to get rid of you, and it usually activates the cancers in perimenopause. — Suzanne Somers

The globe of this earth ... [is] ... not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power. — James Hutton

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster. — Chuck Hagel

Personal connections lead to assignments and promotions, so it needs to be okay for men and women to spend informal time together the same way men can. A senior man and a junior man at a bar is seen as mentoring. A senior man and a junior woman at a bar can also be mentoring ... but is looks like dating. — Sheryl Sandberg

I feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country. — Charlie Munger

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. — Ray Bradbury

Some people are terrified of snakes. Some people are terrified about losing money. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I'd wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself ... I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I didn't think that anymore — Michelle Hodkin