“There are few things in life that are worth waking up to: sex, the dark spices of freshly brewed coffee and bacon.”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“I never arrive unannounced without something big and juicy in hand.
- Simon Hunt”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“Where did you meet?” he pressed on.
I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. “I was out for a run.”
“From who?”
I leaned back to take a long, very long, slow sip of that beer.
Knox leaned forward. “I think we’re both bullsh*tting here, you ever play that card game?”
“With my grandma, every Sunday after church.”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“So, what can I do?” I asked.
“Annoy?”
I gave him a hurt look.
Justus pulled the tip of his hoodie over his eye and lowered his voice. “It remains to be seen; sometimes it takes years to uncover abilities.”
“Maybe I can’t do anything.”
His blue eyes flashed up to mine. “Learner, we are all gifted.”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“Women were gravitating towards him from all directions like a planetary orbit.
(Zoe on meeting Justus)”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“My proctologist keeps in better touch than you do."
- Knox”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“...a scar will always mark you, but never let it define you”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“Adam isn't here."
"How do you know? Because the only balls I see on you aren't crystal.”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“I wouldn't want to put out anyone's eye with my wit.”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“It is the hard journey that leads to a greater destiny. You can never rise if you never have anything to rise above.”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“I noticed Justus had changed into a tight black shirt. I wondered if he bought it a size small intentionally to attract women, or if the fabric had simply shrunk in fear of him. Did”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“When the only tongue you’re getting is from your cat… it’s time to get out more.”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Sterling
“Wild Ones Tip #23
If a Wild One is screaming, just walk away. Trust me, we’re not dying.”
― quote from Becoming A Vincent
“I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.”
― Annie Dillard, quote from The Writing Life
“I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.”
― Gustave Flaubert, quote from Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
“For all the talk about the need to be a likable "team player," many people work in a fairly cutthroat environment that would seem to be especially challenging to those who possess the recommended traits. Cheerfulness, upbeatness, and compliance: these are the qualities of subordinates -- of servants rather than masters, women (traditionally, anyway) rather than men. After advising his readers to overcome the bitterness and negativity engendered by frequent job loss and to achieve a perpetually sunny outlook, management guru Harvey Mackay notes cryptically that "the nicest, most loyal, and most submissive employees are often the easiest people to fire." Given the turmoil in the corporate world, the prescriptions of niceness ring of lambs-to-the-slaughter.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, quote from Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“She was like a stranger to me then, a stranger whose life had just been made utterly meaningless. I know this because I felt the same way. Meaning had gone wholly and and in one clot right out of my life too, and as result I'm sure I was like a stranger to her as well. Our individual pain was so great that that we could not recognize any other.”
― Russell Banks, quote from The Sweet Hereafter
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