“When you’re single it can seem like everyone else comes in pairs.”
― Gabrielle Tozer, quote from The Intern
“One troll called me ‘Slutty the bush skankaroo’.”
― Gabrielle Tozer, quote from The Intern
“Melons. The girls. Gazongas. I could rattle off every nickname in the world for my boobs – oops nearly forgot jubblies – but it didn’t change the fact they were small.”
― Gabrielle Tozer, quote from The Intern
“Operation Find A Toilet Before It Was Too Late was in full swing.”
― Gabrielle Tozer, quote from The Intern
“That anonymous coward is probably forty years old with raging BO and still living in his mum’s granny flat”
― Gabrielle Tozer, quote from The Intern
“The way he teased me made me feel tingly and giggly, like I’d had champagne for breakfast.”
― Gabrielle Tozer, quote from The Intern
“The letters Y, E and S danced on my tongue and shimmied between my teeth.”
― Gabrielle Tozer, quote from The Intern
“Without even realising or trying, you got me.”
― Gabrielle Tozer, quote from The Intern
“Only our pinkie fingers were laced together, but it was enough to send shudders of electricity through my hand.”
― Gabrielle Tozer, quote from The Intern
“The "pleasure" of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of consciousness. And so are the kind of social gatherings, held for no other purpose than the expression of hysterical chaos, where the guests wander around in an alcoholic stupor, prattling noisily and senselessly, and enjoying the illusion of a universe where one is not burdened with purpose, logic, reality or awareness.”
― Ayn Rand, quote from The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“My friend, she is a woman." "No, no, you are deceived--she is a queen.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“Watch out, brother,' his professor had told him more than once, 'you have talent; it would be a sin to ruin it. But you're impatient. Some one thing entices you, some one thing takes your fancy––and you occupy yourself with it, and the rest can rot, you don't care about it, you don't even want to look at it. Watch out you don't turn into a fashionable painter. Even now your colors are beginning to cry a bit too loudly. Your drawing is imprecise, and sometimes quite weak, the line doesn't show; you go for fashionable lighting, which strikes the eye at once. Watch out or you'll fall into the English type. Beware. You already feel drawn to the world: every so often I see a showy scarf on your neck, a glossy hat ... It's enticing, you can start painting fashionable pictures, little portraits for money. But that doesn't develop talent, it ruins it. Be patient. Ponder over every work, drop showiness––let the others make money. You won't come out the loser.”
― Nikolai Gogol, quote from The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
“She feels like someone has planted a tree in her chest and then pressed fast foward on the world, branches growing and twisting and pushing her apart from the inside.”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Hey, it's ten in the morning!' says Person, yelling at two farmers dressed in robes in the distance. 'Don't you think you ought to change out of your pajamas?”
― Evan Wright, quote from Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
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