“The wheel may be turning, but the hamster is DEAD!”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“And, dear God? Thank you for creating Daniel in all his sweet-ass hotness. That’s probably sacrilege, but I mean it most sincerely. Amen.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“You know what I love about you? You can go from cussing sailor to poet laureate in three seconds without batting an eyelash. It's quite impressive.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“I wish you and I weren’t so grossed out by each other. We could’ve been great.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“I thought I had the ability to mind-fuck people, but today I’d met my match.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“A reader who’s been prepared to make enormous sacrifices to secure someone’s love would not find his actions incomprehensible,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“I may have lost the academic plot, but my girly bits were definitely taking notes.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“love that can be calculated or quantified is meaningless or lacking true value,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“I love how we can always pick up where we left off,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Nobody uses “whom” properly. How the hell was he able to do it when he was half wasted?”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“According to Julie, some men were wholly incapable of coping with smart women.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“The poster child for decorum was actually being sexually suggestive.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Thank you, Miss Harper, for taking us straight to the gutter,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Yeah, I was totally missing the boat on this one. How I wished I wanted Matt sometimes. Life would be so much easier.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Oh my God,” I said in a hushed voice. You have to speak quietly when you’re in that kind of room.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“For some must watch, while some must sleep: Thus runs the world away.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“though this be madness, yet there’s method in’t.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Speak, fair; but speak fair words, or else be mute:”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“The odds is gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time;”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“I have seen a medicine That’s able to breathe life into a stone…”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
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“Ken appeared, was taller than she, wanted her, was acceptable and accepted on all sides; similarly, nagging mathematical problems abruptly crack open. Foxy could find no fault with him, and this challenged her, touched off her stubborn defiant streak. She felt between his handsomeness and intelligence a contradiction that might develop into the convoluted humour of her Jew. Ken looked lika a rich boy and worked like a poor one. From Farmington, he was the only son of a Hartford laywer who never lost a case. Foxy came to imagine his birth as cool and painless, without a tear or outcry. Nothing puzzled him. There were unknowns, but no mysteries. (...) He was better-looking, better-thinking, a better machine.”
― John Updike, quote from Couples
“NOT EVERYBODY is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal—like all junkies. And when they get in a frenzy, they will sacrifice anything and anybody to feed their cruel and stupid habit, and there is no cure for it.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“Max saw the stranger give him the once-over, recognised it for what it was. Women had been making him offers since before he was legal. And he'd learned to turn them down without hurting their feelings ...”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Bonds of Justice
“A filosofia, conforme entendo a palavra, é algo intermediário entre a teologia e a ciência. Como a teologia, consiste de especulações sobre assuntos a que o conhecimento exato não conseguiu até agora chegar, mas, como ciência, apela mais à razão humana do que à autoridade, seja esta a da tradição ou a da revelação.”
― Bertrand Russell, quote from Religion and Science
“Aunt Lorna buys all our shoes big to grow into," Mina explained to Miles-san. "That's why they slip around like that." Lieutenant Johannes, peering doubtfully into the depths of the refrigerator, murmured, "Beer... ?" "Do you like beer, Mina?" Miles-san asked. She shook her head, making her straight black hair swing around her chin. "Thought not, somehow. You'll have to do better, Johannes. Aren't all you attaché fellows supposed to be ImpSec trained? Improvise!”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
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