“High heels were invented by a woman who had once been kissed on the forehead.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“Do you think it's possible that love multiples? We're taught to think it divides. There's only so much to go around, like diamonds. It multiples.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
Rita Mae Brown
Born place: in Hanover, Pennsylvania, The United States
Born date November 28, 1944
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“And the day we bargained about the betrothal, and you told me I had something you wanted very badly, what you wanted to do with me…was this?”
“Among other things,” he agreed, tenderly brushing his knuckles over her flushed cheek.
“If I had known all this,” she said with a rueful smile, “I’m certain I would have asked for additional concessions.”
That startled him-the thought that she would have tried to drive a harder bargain if she’d realized exactly how much and what sort of power she really held. “What kind of additional concessions?” he asked, his face carefully expressionless.
She put her cheek against his shoulder, her arms curving around him. “A shorter betrothal,” she whispered. “A shorter courtship, and a shorter ceremony.”
A fresh surge of tenderness and profound pride swept through him at her sweetness and her candor, and he wrapped his arms tightly, protectively around her, smiling with joyous contentment. He had realized within minutes of meeting her that she was rare; he had known within hours that she was everything he wanted. Passionate and gentle, intelligent, sensitive, and witty. He loved all of her qualities, but he hadn’t discovered the one he particularly admired until much later, and that was her courage. He was so proud of the courage that had enabled he to repeatedly confront adversity and adversaries-even when the adversary was him.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Almost Heaven
“I must capture the flag,’ he breathed. ‘That’s what a pirate captain is supposed to do. Go to the roof, so I can capture the flag and gloat.’
‘Capture the flag and goat?’
‘Gloat.’
Isabella stood hands on hips. ‘It’s pronounced goooaaat, idiot.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.”
― Kate Mosse, quote from Sepulchre
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Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.”
― Lorraine Hansberry, quote from A Raisin in the Sun
“No one seems to realize how immense consciousness really is. It ties us to the rest of the universe.”
― John Twelve Hawks, quote from The Traveler
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