“Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from Boys "R" Us
“Kuh-laire, Is cam a fattening Girl Scout Cookie layered with peanut butter and a chocolate coating?
No.
Then dont make him a tagalong!”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from Boys "R" Us
“And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from Boys "R" Us
“A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from Boys "R" Us
“It's never too late to fix things with people you love, Massie. Kendra said.
That's true. William agreed.”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from Boys "R" Us
“walking straight toward the table like”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from Boys "R" Us
“He couldn't be dead. Not from the dagger, or those dozen pirates, or from the catapult. No, Sam couldn't be so stupid that he'd get himself killed. She'd... she'd... Well she'd kill him if he was dead.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
“As individuals express their life, so they are.”
― Karl Marx, quote from The German Ideology
“A policing of sex: that is, not the rigor of a taboo, but the necessity of regulating sex through useful and public discourses. A few examples will suffice. One of the great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was the emergence of “population” as an economic and political problem: population as wealth, population as manpower or labor capacity, population balanced between its own growth and the resources it commanded. Governments perceived that they were not dealing simply with subjects, or even with a “people,” but with a “population,” with its specific phenomena and its peculiar variables: birth and death rates, life expectancy, fertility, state of health, frequency of illnesses, patterns of diet and habitation.”
― Michel Foucault, quote from The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
“You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“Don’t tell her that your moms knew right away what it was, that she recognized its smell from the year the United States invaded your island.”
― Junot Díaz, quote from Drown
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