“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
“We who are called royal are those who speak for our people to the powers of the earth and sky, as those powers transmit their will through us to the people. We are go-betweens. The chief duty of a king is to perform the rites of praise and placation as they should be performed, to observe care and ceremony and so understand and make known the will of the powers that are greater than we are. It is the king who tells the farmer when to plow, when to plant, when to harvest, when the cattle should go up to the hills and when they should return to the valleys, as he learns these things from his experience and his service at the altars of earth and sky. In the same way it is the mother of the family who tells her household when to rise, what work to do, what food to prepare and cook, and when to sit to eat it, having learned these things from her experience and her service at the altars of her Lares and Penates. So peace is maintained and things go well, in the kingdom and in the house. Both Aeneas and I had grown up in this responsibility, and it was dear to us both.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from Lavinia
“We had a tough fight here, but dammit, we’re getting the job done. The First and the Twenty-ninth took heavy casualties all day yesterday, and they’re still taking them now.”
― Jeff Shaara, quote from The Steel Wave
“HELPING ME You think mr think I was infertile having to tell Anna she... that she..”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“Have you eaten?' I asked Diesel.
When?'
Recently.'
No.”
― Janet Evanovich, quote from Plum Spooky
“Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.”
― Alice Miller, quote from The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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