“Young love is strong. First love is powerful. But what you don’t know when you’re young—what you can’t know—is how long life actually is. And the only dependable thing about it, besides death and taxes, is change.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“In third grade I thought I loved her - by sixth grade, I was sure of it”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“Sex with Stanton is exhilarating, working beside him is a privilege. But loving him…that just hurts.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“He turns to me with open arms—expecting a hug of course. Because I have a vagina.
...
penises shake hands, vaginas hug. Not this one, buddy.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“You’re so stubborn – you’re so stuck on what you think is supposed to be there, that you’re missin’ what’s right in front of you.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“I don’t want to share my daughter’s affection with another man. But I also don’t want to tear her in half – make her choose between the two people she loves most in the world. It’s not her job to protect my feelings or her mother’s. It’s our job to protect hers .”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“Do you really want to be judged by twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty?”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“Most stories finish at the end.
But not this one.
This one finishes with a whole new beginning.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“You know my daughter, Presley?”
He nods. “Sure. Cute kid, hot mom. Unfortunate name.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“We broke up in eighth grade when Tara-Mae Forrester offered to let me touch her boobs. And I did.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“She laughs. “Stanton, I’m trying to make partner.”
“I know.”
“And you’re trying to make partner.”
“True.” We walk silently. Then I lean closer to her, guessing, “So that’s a yes, then?”
She grins. “Yes . . . I’ll think about it.”
I give her her favorite lopsided grin. “Good.”
Sofia holds up a finger. “But not now.”
“No.”
“Make sure your sperm is aware of that. It has a history of going rogue.”
I nod. “I’ll send the sperm a memo and CC your ovaries.”
She nods. “But soon.”
“Soon is good.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“The whole world is a court case… and we're all... defendants.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“We left modesty in the dust a ways back – around the first time she played jockey on my face.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“I shake my head. Eye on the prize, Sofia. And no matter what my clitoris might believe, the prize is not Stanton Shaw’s glorious, golden penis.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“If you love something let it go, if it comes back to you it’s yours.” She shakes her head. “You never came back.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“There comes a time in every man’s life when he takes a good, long look at himself and admits he’s been an asshole. A self-centered prick.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“Then Drew Evans strolls into my room. Drew is like no one I’ve ever known. It’s as if there’s a spotlight on him that never dims—he demands your notice.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“I was the youngest in my family, and the only daughter, they were highly protective. But instead of restricting me, that protective instinct drove my parents to make sure I was capable and prepared for whatever life may throw at me.
Opportunities, my father would say, have to be seized with both hands, because you never know if they'll come again.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“Not for the first time, I wonder if Drew Evans is the devil—or a close relation. I can picture him offering the fastingChrist a loaf of bread and making it sound completely acceptable for him to take a big ole bite out of it.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“You’ve heard the freshmen fifteen? Be prepared for the Shaw twenty.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“She braces her hands on the table, leaning forward. And I have a whole new esteem for gravity—because it’s that force that causes her blouse to pull away from her body, giving me a delectable view of her stunning tits encased in delicate black lace.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
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“Посвящаю эти строки
Тем, кто мне устроит гроб.
Приоткроют мой высокий,
Ненавистный лоб.
Измененная без нужды,
С венчиком на лбу,-
Собственному сердцу чуждой
Буду я в гробу.
Не увидят на лице:
"Все мне слышно! Все мне видно!
Мне в гробу еще обидно
Быть как все".
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Идешь, на меня похожий,
Глаза устремляя вниз.
Я их опускала – тоже!
Прохожий, остановись!
[...]
Не думай, что здесь – могила,
Что я появлюсь, грозя...
Я слишком сама любила
Смеяться, когда нельзя!
И кровь приливала к коже,
И кудри мои вились...
Я тоже была, прохожий!
Прохожий, остановись!
[...]
Но только не стой угрюмо,
Главу опустив на грудь.
Легко обо мне подумай,
Легко обо мне забудь.
Как луч тебя освещает!
Ты весь в золотой пыли...
- И пусть тебя не смущает
Мой голос из-под земли.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, quote from Selected Poems
“But there was someone she knew who could speak with a special knowledge on the Cross-Lexcorp controversy. Someone she’d rather not deal with. Someone she’d as soon not see again as long as she lived. Her former fiancé. Lex. Lex Luthor. – Lois Lane”
― C.J. Cherryh, quote from Lois & Clark: A Superman Novel
“You said it wasn't fair. Over and over again you kept saying that. You said, There are so many kids that want to die. She's probably the one that wanted to live the most. I thought, no, I want to live as much as she did. But only if... and then I realized how much it sucked for me to think that. Think about myself like that, complain. I was here and I could go dancing and sweat all night and eat donuts and go roller-skating and take bubble baths and grow up. I had you. Right there with me. I had you living in my life and I was alive.”
― Francesca Lia Block, quote from Wasteland
“Giving a fuck what other people thought was a road straight to misery and pain; an obsession of the weak. To believe otherwise was to live in a fairy tale.”
― Stacia Kane, quote from Sacrificial Magic
“We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.”
― Anna Deavere Smith, quote from Letters to a Young Artist
The Summer Tree
Now We Are Six
A Single Man
I Am Her...
UnSouled
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