“ 'Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice.
'What you mean?' Sugar said,...
'Seems to me that I ain't never see you look up from whatever you were doing and just smile.'
'Just smile? Smile at what? At who?'
'Smile into the air, girl!' she said and waved her arm through the air....you better start, 'cause time is running and a life without good times ain't a life worth having.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar
“When things were bad, time had a habit of taking its time to pass, making sure you experienced every painful moment. When things were good and contentment abundant, time moved like the wind, hurrying precious moments along and forcing things that normally require nurturing to grow and forge quickly.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar
“But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child—that was the worst type of grief of all.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar
“Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life. It don’t matter what her reason was at the time, what matters is she come back for you, and even though you might think it’s too late, it ain’t never too late where a mother and her child is concerned.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar
“Joe lulls the man into the afterlife, places his head gently on the ground, closes the lids over his empty eyes, retrieves his gun and continues to fight for a freedom he would never be fully entitled to.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar
“Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar
“Sugar ain’t spoiled, she just a little bruised, is all. Bruises can heal and fade away to nothing.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar
“What kinda women you is? You gonna let a man lay up on another woman in your own house and not do nothing about it?”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar
“You see, no one ever told her to keep her legs closed and crossed at the ankles. No one ever said: “Save it for the one you love” or “Good girls say no.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar
“Keeping her man well fed and fucked are number one priorities that she can’t slack on because you can never know when a woman dressed to the nines with a blond wig, long legs and a high fat ass that should have been equal to you in almost every way may decide to hop on the first southbound Greyhound and end up looking at you through whispering letters on a dusty storefront window.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar
“There’s a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.” —Sarah Miles”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar
Bernice L. McFadden
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“She tried to keep her voice steady, but it was pretense, like pretending self-control when something you loved was dead in front of your eyes. They would have to separate here.”
― quote from The Price of Salt
“Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.”
“What causes the other ten percent?” asked Kizzy.
“Natural disasters,” said Nib.”
― Becky Chambers, quote from The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“Ich weiß nicht, ob die verdummte Unterhaltung nach und nach dem kollektiven Intellekt unserer Nation geschadet hat oder ob die geistige Faulheit des Publikums zuerst da war und wir sie nur bedient haben.”
― quote from Torture the Artist. Joey Goebel
“Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.”
― David Eagleman, quote from Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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