Molly Harper · 336 pages
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“You're right, it was a bad phone," I said, lifting an eyebrow. "Look at it, lying there, all superior. The phone had it coming.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“Well, now I felt horrible. I'd marred perfectly good ass cheeks for no reason. It was as if I'd sneezed on the Mona Lisa.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“She had a knack for relieving the tension in a room by pretending my rudeness away with cooking. Many, many chickens had given up their lives to cover my conversationalist shortcomings.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“I don't care what tomorrow brings, as long as I have you.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“I was shameless in my supermarket-shelf mass-market taste. I loved King, Evanovich, Grisham and Brown. I won't lie; the oficial-looking filing cabinet in the corner is actually stuffed full of my paperbacks.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“He ground into me. His denim covered OHMYGOD pressing into my hot uncovered.... lady business. I really had to start using grown up words.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“Why would anyone on the crew put on a red shirt? Honestly, it’s like they’re standing in front of their closet, and they’re thinking, ‘Yellow? Blue? Nah, today’s a good day to die.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“Go on, you've claimed your thirty pieces of silver, go do something crazy like put gas in that penis replacement you call transportation.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“How many family conversations are going to be interrupted by me telling you, no, you can't kill someone and make it look like an accident?”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“We should have never encouraged you to speak.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“Yeah, but when has telling someone to do what makes them happy ever resulted in a good decision? Remember when we told cousin Todd to do what made him happy and he came home with recently augmented boobs?”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“Nick: I love you. Who was wrong?
Maggie: I was wrong.
Nick: Who was right?
Maggie: Don't push it.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“Nick: I'm not leaving you. I don't care what you try to do to push me away. I don't care what comes along. I'm here. If you think I'm going to back down now, you're crazy.
Maggie: So you're going to love me out of spite?
Nick: Yes.
Maggie: Ah, spite, the stuff of fairy tales.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“You're pulling a Lassie on me, aren't you?”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“[Dad] once told Cooper that the trick to a happy life was to find the person you can't breathe without and marry her.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“Ah, spite, the stuff of fairy tales.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
“What matters is giving over to what you love.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, quote from The Mermaid Chair
“When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about.
Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, quote from If You're Reading This, It's Too Late
“[W]e can calculate our way into regions of miraculous improbability far greater than we can imagine as plausible. Let's look at this matter of what we think is plausible. What we can imagine as plausible is a narrow band in the middle of a much broader spectrum of what is actually possible. Sometimes it is narrower than what is actually there. There is a good analogy with light. Our eyes are built to cope with a narrow band of electromagnetic frequencies (the ones we call light), somewhere in the middle of the spectrum from long radio waves at one end to short X-rays at the other. We can't see the rays outside the narrow light band, but we can do calculations about them, and we can build instruments to detect them. In the same way, we know that the scales of size and time extend in both directions far outside the realm of what we can visualize. Our minds can't cope with the large distances that astronomy deals in or with the small distances that atomic physics deals in, but we can represent those distances in mathematical symbols. Our minds can't imagine a time span as short as a picosecond, but we can do calculations about picoseconds, and we can build computers that can complete calculations within picoseconds. Our minds can't imagine a timespan as long as a million years, let alone the thousands of millions of years that geologists routinely compute. Just as our eyes can see only that narrow band of electromagnetic frequencies that natural selection equipped our ancestors to see, so our brains are built to cope with narrow bands of sizes and times. Presumably there was no need for our ancestors to cope with sizes and times outside the narrow range of everyday practicality, so our brains never evolved the capacity to imagine them. It is probably significant that our own body size of a few feet is roughly in the middle of the range of sizes we can imagine. And our own lifetime of a few decades is roughly in the middle of the range of times we can imagine.”
― Richard Dawkins, quote from The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
“You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so...”
― Michelle Moran, quote from Nefertiti
“The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike”
― Christopher Marlowe, quote from Dr. Faustus
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