“I have a weakness for tough guys who read.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies.
My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“What's her name?"
"None of your business."
"That can't possibly be her name.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“You're a terrible cook, Daniel."
"I know," he replied, "But it's the effort that counts."
"I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“I knew immediately that this was not going to work out. Hunter is the kind of guy who dates women who wear high heels and a cocktail dress on a first date. I can't even walk in heels, and I generally believe that someone has to earn the right to see my legs.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay."
"Did you suggest she ask him?"
Mom laughed. "Of course not. Business is slow.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“No one is going to abduct me, Rae."
"That's what all abductees say.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“She asked how I liked my tea and I told her with cream and sugar (but really, I like my tea to be coffee),”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“David Spellman was born perfect. Eight pounds even, with a full head of hair and unblemished skin, he cried for a brief moment right after his birth (to let the doctor know he was breathing), then stopped abruptly, probably out of politeness.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“We provide proof of a question for which the answer is already known.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
“Everyone should know what it’s like to get a C.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Spellman Files
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“my dormitory had been waiting to have its septic system replaced since before the Berlin Wall fell.”
― Stuart Gibbs, quote from Spy Ski School
“He’s funny and attractive. That doesn’t mean I want to sleep with him.” “That always means you want to sleep with someone.” “Thanks a lot,” I say. “Was that a thinly-veiled slut accusation?” “That’s funny, it wasn’t supposed to be thinly-veiled.”
― Sarah Lyons Fleming, quote from Mordacious
“Awareness is not an idea about awareness, as it is not thought at all. Awareness allows you to feel life as it's happening, as it is in perception that consciousness and all spiritual qualities are manifest.”
― Belsebuub, quote from Gazing into the Eternal: Reflections upon a Deeper Purpose to Living
“He doesn't love me no matter what he believes. He loves that I need him. But I don't. Not really. Because despite what I thought, what I counted on, he has never been there for me. There is no safety with him. I've always been alone. I just didn't know how isolated I was until now.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“And as it grew up and began to enjoy itself
What would we do with an unpredictable,
Powerful, bounding fox?
That long-mouthed, flashing temperament?
That necessary nightly twenty miles
And that vast hunger for everything beyond us?
How would we cope with its cosmic derangements
Whenever we moved?
...If I had grasped that whatever comes with a fox
Is what tests a marriage and proves it a marriage--
I would not have failed the test.”
― Ted Hughes, quote from Birthday Letters
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