“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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“seven.
seven was when ethan had learned to ride a bicycle.
macon was visited by one of those memories that dent the skin, that strain the muscles. he felt the seat of ethan's bike pressing into his hand--the curled-under edge at the rear that you hold onto when you're trying to keep a bicycle upright. he felt the sidewalk slapping against his soles as he ran. he felt himself let go, slow to a walk, stop with his hands on his hips to call out, "you've got her now! you've got her!" and ethan rode away from him, strong and proud and straight-backed, his hair picking up the light till he passed beneath and oak tree. ”
― Anne Tyler, quote from The Accidental Tourist
“She absolutely declined to be puzzled; she turned her eyes to the flame of the candle as if the question were as irrelevant, or at any rate as impersonal, as Mrs. Marcet or nine-times-nine.”
― Henry James, quote from The Turn of the Screw
“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Dispossessed
“I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, quote from Halo
“Working to establish a more comfortable style of survival has grown to feel complete in and of itself as a reason to live, and we’ve gradually, methodically, forgotten our original question … We’ve forgotten that we still don’t know what we’re surviving for.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
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