“I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized I couldn’t find books that took me to all the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.”
― Pat Murphy, quote from The Wild Girls
“I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.”
― Pat Murphy, quote from The Wild Girls
“Sometimes, you gotta believe something crazy. Because all the other things you could believe hurt too much.”
― Pat Murphy, quote from The Wild Girls
“You are afraid of us. You are afraid because you don't know what we might do.”
― Pat Murphy, quote from The Wild Girls
“I thought it was a really good story,' Cindy said. She was trying to make me feel better, I think. 'I liked the way it ended. When I was halfway through, I was thinking that maybe some handsome prince was going to show up and save the princess.'
'She didn't need a handsome prince,' I said. 'Those wild girls did just fine on their own.”
― Pat Murphy, quote from The Wild Girls
“Verla says that nobody thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.”
― Pat Murphy, quote from The Wild Girls
“I wasn't wearing war paint. But that didn't matter. I didn't need war paint. I was a different person than I had been, back then.”
― Pat Murphy, quote from The Wild Girls
“But when you write something down, you have to think it all the way through. Sometimes, I'm not even sure how I feel about something until I write a story about it. I figure it out while I'm writing the story.”
― Pat Murphy, quote from The Wild Girls
“We talked about each story for a while, and then Verla talked about heroes and villains. 'Nobody is all good or all bad,' she told us. 'The world is painted in shades of gray.”
― Pat Murphy, quote from The Wild Girls
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“… everything is so fragile. I feel so lost. I live off secret, radiating, luminous rays that would smother me if I didn’t cover them with a heavy cloak of false certainties. God help me: I have no one to guide me and it’s dark again.”
― Clarice Lispector, quote from The Stream of Life
“I think I’ll go to yoga to clear this negative energy before today’s orgy scene. I wanna go in with a positive attitude. November”
― Asa Akira, quote from Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story
“Don't add silence to your list of regrets.”
― Amanda Maciel, quote from Tease
“You are not just one person, Candice. You’re a whole tornado of a person.”
― Elle Casey, quote from MacKenzie Fire
“When she finally crashed back to earth, Luke's dark eyes were focused on her face. "Did you really just come?" he demanded, his voice a cross between a growl and a groan.
She let out a ragged breath. "Uh-huh."
"Fuck, that's hot." He ground his pelvis into her. "Do it again.”
― Elle Kennedy, quote from Midnight Alias
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