“ROMEO: Here’s the thing: when you back a wounded dog into a corner, it’s going to come out fighting.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Romeo: You couldn’t put a price on piece of mind.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Rimmel: I finally accepted the fact I was really struggling today, and with that acceptance, it became a little easier to breathe.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Romeo: You know what pisses me off?
When good days are ruined by bad s*t.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“ROMEO: If there was one thing I’d learned over the past few years, it was life wasn’t easy. In fact, at times, it was f*cking brutal. Family was supposed to be the exception. Family was supposed to make life easier. It wasn’t always that way.
Guess that’s why the six of us formed our own family. A family by choice and out of loyalty.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“ROMEO: Fastest way to not hear what someone has to say? Hang up on them.
Did it make me an *sshole? Sure did. Did I give a rat’s *ss? H*lls no.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“VALERIE: .....It isn’t your fault. These things, these horrible things just happen.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Life wasn't just any one thing. It was a combination... a melting pot of emotions, a mix of salty and sweet.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“I smiled into his lips, and he continued to kiss me. "Your smile is my favorite flavor," he said, pulling away slightly.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“The memories still seemed to haunt me at a moment's notice.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“My brain was the internet, and I had one thousand tabs open all the time.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“He still did it. He still looked at me like I was all he saw, like I was the sun and the moon all wrapped up into one.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“You may be half the size of my son, but your strength matches his.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“I was stronger. Not healed. I would never be "healed." I didn't think there was such a thing for a person who'd lost a child. It was simply learning to live incomplete.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Sometimes the worst insults are the ones that prey on our deepest fears.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“That's right. Your husband. I belong to you, Rim. Always. I don't want anyone but you. I haven't since the day you spilled pencils everywhere, in your lesbian sweater, and gave me a list of rules.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Quiet Romeo was a scary Romeo. It was like the calm before the storm. Or an empty football stadium.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“She was a collector of lost souls. The forgotten, the bypassed, the most beautiful at heart. Rimmel saw beauty no one else saw, and even though how she made others feel was amazing, it was nothing compared to the way it made her shine.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
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“Brewster Place became especially fond of its colored daughters as they milled like determined spirits among its decay, trying to make it home. Nutmeg arms leaned over windowsills, gnarled ebony legs carried groceries up double flights of steps, and saffron hands strung out wet laundry on backyard lines. Their perspiration mingled with the steam from boiling pots of smoked pork greens, and it curled on the edges of the aroma of vinegar douches and Evening in Paris cologne that drifted through the street where they stood together - hands on hips, straight-backed, round-bellied, high-behinded women who threw their heads back when they laughed and exposed strong teeth and dark gums. They cursed, badgered, worshiped, and shared their men. Their love drove them to fling dishcloths in someone else's kitchen to help him make the rent, or to fling hot lye to help him forget that bitch behind the counter at the five-and-dime. They were hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased, these women of Brewster Place. They came, they went, grew up, and grew old beyond their years. Like an ebony phoenix, each in her own time and with her own season had a story.”
― Gloria Naylor, quote from The Women of Brewster Place
“It’s a curse to have a mind if it is illegal to use it. It’s a curse to have intelligence if you are forced to cloak it in a lifetime of wilful stupidity.”
― Ben Elton, quote from Blind Faith
“A própria palavra “sedução” implica mentira e manipulação.”
― Matt Ridley, quote from The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
“My, how foolish I am! You know what I've always thought? I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when He came it would be like looking at the Baptist window: pretty as colored glass with the sun pouring through, such a shine you don't know it's getting dark. And it's been a comfort: to think of that shine taking away all the spooky feeling. But I'll wager it never happens. I'll wager at the very end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are, just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes.”
― Truman Capote, quote from A Christmas Memory
“Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper ”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
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