“The wind sounds like people crying.”
― Lindsey Barraclough, quote from Long Lankin
“Pete and me are pretty sure she's a witch, like old Gussie Jetherell, just down from us-- through she definitely is. She's got lots of cats, and that's a sign.”
― Lindsey Barraclough, quote from Long Lankin
“Water is dripping onto the floor somewhere near the cupboard, like the tick of a clock. It’s annoying because sometimes it comes when I’m expecting it and at other times it waits on purpose to irritate me.”
― Lindsey Barraclough, quote from Long Lankin
“And if you ask Sister Camillus at school why, she says it's a mystery and you'll find out when you die.”
― Lindsey Barraclough, quote from Long Lankin
“Your mother's always going on about how her and Uncle Ben being told the church was spooky when they were kids. That sort of thing doesn't scare me, you know. I fought Hitler.”
― Lindsey Barraclough, quote from Long Lankin
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“Dad, who knew that Mother’s favorite poet was Browning and suspected where the Robert came from, nevertheless bunched the fingers of his right hand, kissed their tips, and threw his hand into the air. “Ah, Robert,” he intoned, “if I could but taste the nectar of thy lips.”
― Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., quote from Cheaper by the Dozen
“Fuck, Avery. You think I don't want you? There's not a single part of you that I don't want, you understand? I want to be on you and inside of you. I want you against the wall, on the couch, in your bed, in my bed, and every fucking place I can possibly think of, and trust me, I have a vast imagination when it comes to these kinds of things. Don't ever doubt that I want you. That is not what this is about.”
― J. Lynn, quote from Wait for You
“Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Burned
“En el que el héroe vence cuando acepta su propia muerte”
― Juan Gomez-Jurado, quote from The Traitor's Emblem
“Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.”
― Muriel Spark, quote from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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