“ '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
Born place: in Brooklyn, The United States
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“Todo el mundo sabe que no se puede juzgar a un libro por su portada, pero a la hora de la verdad, lo que cuenta es la apariencia. No falla.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, quote from I'll Be There
“It pays only three hundred dollars per annum, but Dr. Berwyn said it will lead to a good income as a surgeon. “Never downplay the importance of income,” he told me. “You must remember that the person who complains bitterly about a doctor’s earnings usually is not a doctor.”
― Noah Gordon, quote from Shaman
“THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY PICTURES ARE FLASHED BY WIRE AND RADIO SYNCHRONIZING WITH SPEAKER’S VOICE COMMERCIAL USE IN DOUBT BUT AT&T HEAD SEES A NEW STEP IN CONQUEST OF NATURE AFTER YEARS OF RESEARCH”
― Bill Bryson, quote from One Summer: America, 1927
“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”
― Albert Camus, quote from The Outsider
“He won’t know what to make of it. It’ll drive him insane. A woman’s weapons of mass destruction are indifference and confusion.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Royally Screwed
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Old Filth
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