Birthstone Quotes

#1. Violence is not just an abstract noun.....its a way of life.

Jean-Marc Akerele

#2. I wish I could just sleep until this whole mess passes me by. And by this whole mess, I mean my life.

Melissa Foster

#3. I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

Edward Hirsch

#4. To improve is to change.

Winston Churchill

#5. They were too near to me. I loved them to much. And the love overtaking me and combined with the fact that I was going to spend another evening alone, doing nothing with it, being waited down to motionlessness by my own actions made me want to get it over with and fucking be alone.

Courtney Maum

#6. Of course she is. Because she's eight kinds of wonderful, and that's just her legs." Jeb furrows his brow. "What's that supposed to mean?" "Taelor has all the diplomacy of a black widow spider. Garnet's her birthstone. You're wearing her birthday on your lip. Talk about spinning you up in her web.

A.G. Howard

#7. So I'm all, "Owned! Bee-yatch! Dog fucking owned you!" Doing a minor booty dance of ownage, perhaps, in retrospect, a bit prematurely. (I believe hip-hop to be the apprpriate language for taunting, at least until I learn French.)

Christopher Moore

#8. Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.

Zoe Kravitz

#9. [In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.

Suzy Menkes

#11. Where did the boy genius go? He had been, as a child, expected to be a neurosurgeon, or a great novelist. And now he's considering (or, okay, refusing to consider) law school. Was the burden of his potential too much for him?

Michael Cunningham