“How was it possible he looked cool and calm and falling to pieces all at once?”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“You have to believe you deserve the things you want and expect them to happen. Then you need the determination to see them through despite the obstacles.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I think it's because when I look at you, I see us. and we're beautiful together.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I get that you have a huge ego and probably don’t want to admit you’re a disgusting, shallow bastard, but don’t hide behind a doctor’s note.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“But I think deep down inside I always knew that being genuinely ugly (not just “unattractive” as Asshole had called it) would slow me down.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I wanted to ruffle this man’s pretty feathers. Then I wanted to pluck them out and make a fancy headband.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Now, I get how strange this is going to sound, but good old Craig here calling Mr. Cole a “fucking dick” somehow rubbed me the wrong way. I inexplicably felt like I was the only person in the world who’d earned that privilege.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Conquering meant one pushed the obstacle out of the way. Total annihilation or domination.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“It is called cacophobia, Miss Snow. It is a disorder.” I blinked at him, trying my best not to laugh hysterically and roll on the floor.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Now if you’ll excuse me, real life is calling and there’s no room for self-righteous, delusional little girls. Big boys only.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“It was completely unprofessional to speak about your boss like that to someone who wasn’t a trusted friend or family member you leaned on for the requisite boss-venting.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I’m going to give you some advice: don’t be such a whiny asshole. It makes you look weak.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“You are the most unattractive woman I’ve ever met. And you are exactly what I need.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I realized how love could insulate a person from just about anything. Especially self-love.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Ironically, I remember that not even the pretty girls were exempt from this sick breed of torment. And if they couldn’t escape it, what about me?”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“When it comes to your looks, the only option in this world that matters is yours.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Good luck,” he said, but really meant “fuck you” by his tone. Changed my mind. “Thanks, Amy.” Fuck you back.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“Oh, but he allooowed it. Like he gave me some precious permission slip to ride his cock.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“By the way, I bought six tubes of lip gloss after seeing you naked.” Oh, wait. “In the photo, I mean.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
“I vote you fire him and then kick his ass so your liability is reduced to only your personal assets versus the company’s.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, quote from Fugly
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“The sparkling smile became enormous. ‘Do you think she has a dagger there? Do you? Ask her, M. Francis? For,’ said the most noble and most powerful Princess Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland, delving furiously under all the stiff red velvet, showing shift, hose and garters, shoes, knees and a long ribboned end of something recently torn loose, and emerging therefrom with a fist closed tight on an object short and hard and glittering, ‘for I have!’ And breathlessly, flinging back her head, with the little knife offered like a quill, ‘Try to stab me!’ she encouraged her visitor. There was a queer silence, during which the eyes of Oonagh O’Dwyer and her love of one night met and locked like magnet and iron. The child, waiting a moment, offered again, the ringing, joyful defiance still in her voice. ‘Try to stab me! … Go on, and I’ll kill you all dead!’
Her throat dry, Oonagh spoke. ‘Save your steel for those you trust. They are the ones who will carry your bier; the men who cannot hate, nor can they know love. Send away the cold servants.’ The red mouth had opened a little; the knife hung forgotten in her hand.
‘I would,’ said Mary, surprised. ‘But I do not know any.’ And, anxiously demonstrating her point, she caught Lymond by the hand.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from Queens' Play
“This is the right thing to do, I tell myself. But I don’t believe it. This is another one of my mother’s crazy ideas. I feel sick to my stomach. I want to pull my hand away, but I don’t. I keep walking. Good Moose. Obedient Moose. I always do what I’m supposed to do.”
― Gennifer Choldenko, quote from Al Capone Does My Shirts
“There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals?
Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.”
― R.A. Salvatore, quote from Streams of Silver
“Cowperwood was shocked by the nudity of the Venus which conveyed an atmosphere of European freedom not common to America;”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from The Financier
“Now as I began to sort through his “effects” it occurred to me how little I had really known him … I had forced upon my father the character that fitted most easily with my image of myself; to have had to admit to any complexity in him would have compromised my own.”
― David Malouf, quote from Johnno
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