“Because she was solid gold, fourteen-carat, barely burnished despite twenty years of hard molling. But beneath it, I knew, beneath that gold and stardust, she was all grit and sharp teeth gnashing, head twisting, talons out, tearing flesh. She was all open mouth, tunneling into an awful nothing.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from Queenpin
“You have to decide who you are, little girl, she told me once. Once you know that, everyone else will too.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from Queenpin
“If you didn't feel it on your body long after he'd left, was it really worth laying for him? I wanted to feel that.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from Queenpin
“time to put on your miner's hat and headed toward the bright light.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from Queenpin
“Then I thought maybe she did know but didn’t want to look at it. Maybe she did know but there’s all kinds of lies you tell yourself when you want to.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from Queenpin
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“Do I need to explain how to make love to a woman? Because although I’ve never had the pleasure, I’m fairly certain it involves thrusting.”
― Leisa Rayven, quote from Bad Romeo
“Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.”
― Amit Ray, quote from Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
“When you are young you believe the world is all yours, glorious and exhilarating and fascinating and full of promise and trumpets and drums and marches and new worlds,” said Charles. “We don’t ask ourselves what we are living for then. We know. But we forget, later, or it all seems a foolish dream.”
― Taylor Caldwell, quote from Captains and the Kings
“Women were all the same. They promised to burn things and then didn’t.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply have such exaggerated power? And it does. He does not know that what he says will affect the way she feels when they next make love. She is angry for a number of good reasons that may have nothing to do with this particular man's intentions. The exchange reminds her that, in spite of a whole fabric of carefully woven equalities, they are not equal in this way that is so crucial that its snagged thread unravels the rest.”
― Naomi Wolf, quote from The Beauty Myth
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