“...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details.”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“My arms were covered in scratches and had bled a little so I licked my finger and cleaned them off and thought God would have done a better job if he made blood taste like Three Musketeers bars.”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“--I wouldn't throw that cat out of bed.
--When did you get a cat?”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“Ethel Jackson was the cool side of my pillow when I had a fever.”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“If we could find Sara's body, we'd probably get a reward and our pictures in the newspaper like Mary Lane did when she called in that fire she set.”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“Eddie's ma, that would be Mrs. Callahan, her husband got killed last winter over at the Feelin' Good Cookie Factory. They had an open casket at the funeral so you could see dead Mr. Callahan, who hadn't looked that great in life and looked even worse in death. Especially after that cookie press got to him. But Mr. Becker from Becker Funeral Homes had done a nice job fluffing Mr. Callahan's face back out again so he ended up looking like one of those waxy mannequins that you pay a dime to see up at the Wisconsin state Fair.”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“When I was sure she was asleep, I got up and went into Mother's room and pulled her yellow nightie out from the bottom drawer of her dresser, and then I got Daddy's Timex from the dressing table and put it on my wrist. After I said my prayers and told Daddy I was sorry like I did every night, I laid down at the foot of Mother's bed and drifted off to the sound of rain that was strong enough to be good for the crops, and tried and tried to remember the last time I felt safe.”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“Clearly, Nell was going crazy. (Well, she certainly had the hair for it.)”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of beer... If one of those bottles should happen to fall, there'd be how many bottles of beer on the wall?”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“And as I watched the car pull away toward the cemetery, the little white funeral flag waving good-bye, I felt blessed to be breathing, to have my heart beating.”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
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“The thought of being engaged to a girl who talked openly about fairies being born because stars blew their noses, or whatever it was, frankly appalled me.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Right Ho, Jeeves
“Fences sure are funny, aren't they, Papa?"
"How so?"
"Well, you be friends with Mr. Tanner and all. But we keep this fence up like it was war. I guess that humans are the only things on earth that take everything they own and fence it off.”
― Robert Newton Peck, quote from A Day No Pigs Would Die
“The only real enemy humans have is death. Every other enemy like a kid who slags you off at school or a cop who pulls you over you think they're enemies but they're not really. They're just I don't know irritations. But death that's the serious one because you know he'll win eventually. And that makes you like you've got to try to beat him. The bigger the challenge the harder you try. That's true of anything. In a way our enemies aren't these soldiers themselves our enemy is death and the soldiers are just his little local representatives." -Homer”
― John Marsden, quote from While I Live
“THE WOMAN WAS GOING TO KILL HIM, and not because she was stronger and more vicious than he was. Which, if he thought about it, she was. He’d never ripped a man’s throat out with his teeth, and he was damned impressed that Gwen had. She’d made the Lords of the Underworld look like marshmallows. Two”
― Gena Showalter, quote from The Darkest Whisper
“She turned for her kitchen, mentally revising her planned family dinner to include a Vor lord from the Imperial capital. White wine? Her limited experience of the breed suggested that if you could get them sufficiently sloshed, it wouldn't matter what you fed them.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from Komarr
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