“Wear pink. It confuses the enemy.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonFire
“I shall not tell your husband and you shall not tell my wife."
Tell them what?"
That you and I were outwitted by a ropma."
That would be shamful."
Girl, we could never live it down.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonFire
“Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonFire
“The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self in a very comfortable position."
"Where?" asked Kale
"In Wulder's care.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonFire
“Time together is so much more pleasant for the time apart.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonFire
“I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.”
― Alice Steinbach, quote from Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
“El robo a mano armada que suponen los libros es sencillamente una estafa de lo más cínica. Z escribe un libro que publica Y, y que reseña X en el «Semanario W». Si la reseña es negativa, Y retirará el anuncio que ha incluido, por lo cual X tiene que calificar la novela de “obra maestra inolvidable” si no quiere que lo despidan. En esencia, esta es la situación, y la reseña de novelas, o la crítica de novelas, si se quiere, se ha hundido a la profundidad a la que hoy se encuentra sobre todo porque los críticos, sin excepción, tienen a un editor o a varios apretándoles las tuercas por persona interpuesta".”
― George Orwell, quote from A Collection of Essays
“This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.”
― Doris Lessing, quote from Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
“If we can’t be honest with ourselves, how can we ever tell the truth to the people out there?”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
“I’ve been grasping at nothing, running in circles, trying desperately to fill the emptiness inside with nothing but air. If I think about it too much, I feel shame, so much shame. So I don’t.”
― Kerry Cohen, quote from Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
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