“Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. ~ Doug Larson”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
“A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~ Author Unknown”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
“went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out. ~ Rodney Dangerfield”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
“I don’t sing because I am happy; I am happy because I sing. ~ William James”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
“Hockey players wear numbers because you can’t always identify the body with dental records. ~ Anonymous”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
“If you never change your mind, why have one? ~ Edward de Bono”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
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“His full name is Ignazio Vitale, although once, not so long ago, he urged me to call him
Naz. And it was Naz who charmed me, who won me over and made me melt. It wasn't until
later that I got to know the true Ignazio, and by the time I met Vitale, it was far too late to just
walk away.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Monster in His Eyes
“I knew, for instance, that rooms where people slept exuded peculiarly human smells just as the goat pen smelt goaty and the cattle kraal bovine. It was common knowledge among the younger girls at school that the older girls menstruated into sundry old rags which they washed and reused and washed again. I knew, too, that the fact of menstruation was a shamefully unclean secret that should not be allowed to contaminate immaculate male ears by indiscreet reference to this type of first in their presence.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga, quote from Nervous Conditions
“Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?
Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice.
God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.
Harper: And then up you get. And walk around.
Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.
Harper: That's how people change.”
― Tony Kushner, quote from Angels in America
“The cow-shaped cookies have a beef flavoring, the turkey-shaped cookies have a poultry flavoring, and..."
Jane held up one of the cookies. "Human-flavored?"
Meg stifled a sigh. That would be the first thing on her feedback list: don't make people-shaped cookies. The Wolves were way too interested and all of them leaped to a logical, if disturbing, expectation about the taste.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“If you're going to start a new life, you might as well start it NOW.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Twist a Dragon's Tale
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