Top 100 Brigid Quotes
#1. Ever the women must work," Brigid grumbled.
Sanna Hines
#2. Hello, Aaron," Brigid said, sliding up to him and running a finger down his chest. "You're
looking good .
. as always."
Aaron lifted her finger off his shirt and let it drop. "Put some clothing on, Brigid."
She smiled up at him. "Why? Tempted?"
"Yeah, to cover my eyes.
Kelley Armstrong
#3. Was it Brigid Brophy who gave up on a certain Virginia Woolf novel when she discovered that Woolf believed one needed a corkscrew to open a bottle of champagne?
David Markson
#4. When you were born, just a fresh babe, and I held you in my arms for the first time, I knew that we had to call you Bridie, after the blessed St. Brigid. I knew because the moment I set eyes on you, I saw you had holy fire in you, exactly like our own St. Brigid.
Kirsty Murray
#5. Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know."
Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere
Dashiell Hammett
#6. When it is time for me to visit Brigid, I find her awake in her little room. "That's awl righ', luv. I don' care to forget, if it's all the same," she says, and there are no rowan leaves at her window anymore.
Libba Bray
#7. Jesus, I could shake the crap out of you.' Gabriel shoved him in the shoulder. 'When you're going to do awesome stuff, let me in on it.
Brigid Kemmerer
#8. I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.
Brigid Brannagh
#9. That was the worst kind of hypocrisy, right? Hating someone for something you hated about yourself?
Brigid Kemmerer
#10. Michael always said if he could get them to eighteen without going to jail or getting a girl pregnant he'd consider it a success.
Brigid Kemmerer
#11. As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.
Brigid Schulte
#12. Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed.' In other words, life has a solid right hook, but it's not going to take me down.
Brigid Kemmerer
#13. He half rose from his seat and reached across another student's desk to drop the mangled paper clip in front of Tommy.
"Look, dude," he said, his voice low and earnest. "You want to ask me out, you man up and do it proper.
Brigid Kemmerer
#14. I keep repeating the conversation with Taduesz in mind, reaching out to touch it to make sure it doesn't disappear.
Brigid Pasulka
#15. I pissed off Quinn, and probably chased her into the arms of a psychopath. Oh, and I made out with another guy. It's a miracle our clothes stayed on.
Brigid Kemmerer
#16. A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.
Brigid Schulte
#17. To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.
Brigid Brophy
#18. I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.
Brigid Schulte
#19. So are the stories true?" asked Hunter. "Depends," Becca hedged. "What have you heard?"
"That you knocked two seniors on their asses on the soccer field, then flipped off the coach."
"Absolutely true," said Becca, deadpan.
Brigid Kemmerer
#20. I just think the Kardashians are just so cheap!
Brigid Berlin
#21. It's the difference between having a couple of dates, dating for a few months, or having a marriage and living together for eight years or so. It's easy to look back fondly on the ones that were somewhat short.
Brigid Brannagh
#22. Everything he knew was with a girl. Like reciting a learned lesson, something he could do because he had to. This - this was new. And exciting. And primal and raw and right.
Brigid Kemmerer
#23. Sucks being the girl, doesn't it?" Said Quinn.
"Shut up." But yes. It did.
Brigid Kemmerer
#24. Nick," he said. "I think I'm going to need you to bite my arm."
"I think I'm going to need you to run that by me again.
Brigid Kemmerer
#25. Mark Frankel was just a very tender, thoughtful person, and that was really nice. At that point in life, I hadn't met a lot of people my senior who were that tender, and still doing well and making a real go of it. That was a treat, for sure.
Brigid Brannagh
#26. Music always rode the air until he felt each beat through his whole body. But the air here was full of energy that sparked and rejoiced with the melody.
Brigid Kemmerer
#27. I love the New York that was. The end for me was Studio 54. I don't go out at night anymore.
Brigid Berlin
#28. Actually, there are," she'd said. "Want to see who can make the most inappropriate picture out of
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse?"
So they'd done that. She hadn't realized how ... creative a bunch of teen boys could get. But at
least it had cut through some of their tension.
Brigid Kemmerer
#29. When Chris was ten, we pushed him down the stairs. This was twice as entertaining.
Brigid Kemmerer
#30. Of course I haven't seen it! I wouldn't look at anything of Kim Kardashian's. I have never seen that show. I just think the Kardashians are just so cheap! No class.
Brigid Berlin
#31. He looked up, past her, at the bedroom. Finally, a break to the white - but this wasn't much better. Pink carpeting, princess border along the ceiling, white walls, and a gold canopy bed.
"What," he said, "no Barbie dream castle?"
Layne flushed. "Shut up.
Brigid Kemmerer
#32. Be a shadow, Hunter. Can you be a shadow? It was one of the first things he'd learned from his father.
He's been six.
Brigid Kemmerer
#33. When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.
Brigid Brannagh
#34. Gabriel woke him up at the crack of dawn with a cup of water to the face and a kick in the ribs.
Brigid Kemmerer
#35. The ex-pat's life with all its homesickness and loneliness and privileges and perks, with its dizzy ups and miserable downs, was certainly not ordinary.
Brigid Keenan
#36. Could we report Tyler for having a gun?" she said.
"He's over eighteen," said Chris. "It's probably legal."
"It's not legal for him to be shooting at me," she snapped.
Brigid Kemmerer
#37. If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?
Brigid Pasulka
#38. God! She was tempted to take a picture of her middle finger and send it back. Her fingers flew across the screen. Heading to first period. Maybe you can do something more useful than texting me.
Brigid Kemmerer
#39. Adam trapped one of Nick's legs under his and shifted closer, pressing into him until there was no doubt he was happy to be there.
Brigid Kemmerer
#40. The World Health Organization found that Americans live in the richest country, but they are also the most anxious.2 The average high school kid today experiences the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s.
Brigid Schulte
#41. There are two things that I hate: getting up at 6 in the morning and making my bed. I'm as neat as a pin, but I will not make beds. Period. I don't care if I get into them and they're messy. I just don't care.
Brigid Berlin
#42. I haven't gotten in a fight yet this year!
Despite everything, that made her smile. "It's September."
He waved a hand. "Details.
Brigid Kemmerer
#43. Gabriel. Number three?"
That killed the smile. "Yeah. My twin brother. He says he doesn't care if I go away to school, but I know he does."
"Identical twin?"
"Yeah."
"Niiiiice."
Nick cut him another look, and Adam smiled. "Sorry.
Brigid Kemmerer
#44. If you want me to fix your homework, you need to leave me alone." Then he spotted her. "You're back."
"Yeah." She glanced between him and Gabriel. "You do his homework?"
"Just the math. It's a miracle he can count to ten."
"I can count to one." Gabriel gave him the finger.
Brigid Kemmerer
#45. You're the only person alive who would use superpowers to be more dorky.
Brigid Kemmerer
#46. I'm a real conservative. I never became a hippie, or a groupie. I never wore flowers in my hair.
Brigid Berlin
#47. He offered to make-out with Hunter if it would prove that he's ok with me being gay."
"Hmm," said Adam. "Yeah I think I need to see proof."
"Shut up."
"Tell him it has to be shirtless. Wait, let me get my phone out-
Brigid Kemmerer
#48. Hunter wondered if there was any possible way he could have made this interaction more awkward.
Here. Let me give you a concussion and then scare you.
Brigid Kemmerer
#50. I loved playing Sasha. You don't have this on every job, or every show or movie, but every day was really an adventure, character wise, for what I got to do at that age.
Brigid Brannagh
#51. I figured we'd catch you with a girl one day, but this isn't quite the scenario I imagined.
Brigid Kemmerer
#52. Then Hannah said, 'Look, either you're going to talk or I'm going to have to finish the story about the guy who chopped off his penis. Your call.
Brigid Kemmerer
#53. She spilled your secrets," said Quinn
"Yeah?" He sliced off a piece of chicken and glanced across the table. "What's my name Becca?"
Busted. Becca wanted to melt into a puddle.
Quinn grinned. "You mean it's not really New Kid?
Brigid Kemmerer
#54. Normally I give permission to take my daughter for a walk after only the building of a wall and a stone pathway.' He smiled. 'For future reference.'
'But, Pan, I knew after the first week that a walk was not the only thing I would request,' the Pigeon said, smiling, 'and winter will be here soon.
Brigid Pasulka
#55. A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out.
Brigid Brannagh
#56. Nick's eyes were like ice. "Maybe we should talk about what happened in third period today. I didn't even ask if you were okay."
What a bastard. "Shut up."
"What happened?" said Michael
"Nothing," said Chris. He glared at Nick across the table
Good little brother.
Brigid Kemmerer
#57. Hunter held out the gun, stock first. "You want to just shoot me and save Dad the time?"
Jay smiled and took the weapon, checking the magazine before putting it back on the wall. "He's not going to shoot you."
"That would be too quick?
Brigid Kemmerer
#58. Oh, I'm going to see him - in a pile of broken bones. Here. Have a cookie." Chris shook his head, and his
Brigid Kemmerer
#59. What this intensive mothering culture tells us is valuable is at discord with what really is valuable: Love your kids. Keep them safe. Accept them as they are. Then get out of their way.
Brigid Schulte
#60. Mr. Merrick, I'd like to speak with you.
Mr. Merrick. He hated when teachers called him that, like he was an old man stopping by to learn a few math tricks.
Brigid Kemmerer
#62. We all push sometimes, just to make sure someone is on the other side, pushing back.
Brigid Kemmerer
#63. A girl on the cheer squad had once asked Gabriel if having a twin was like looking in a mirror all the time. He'd asked her if being a cheerleader was like being an idiot all of the time - but really, it was a good question.
Brigid Kemmerer
#64. I loathe having to go out and get dressed up. I'd much rather stay home and watch CNN.
Brigid Berlin
#65. His grandparents lived on an old farm. Like he should have considered that psycho teenage girls might be leaving tainted steaks for his dog to find. If you hurt him, I'll kill you.
Brigid Kemmerer
#66. I'd worked for Aaron Spelling before [Embraced] and I always felt like we had a nice connection. I pretty much walked in and looked at him like, "This is mine!" And by the time I was done with the audition, he was already speaking to me as if I had the role.
Brigid Brannagh
#67. By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating
merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy.
Brigid Brophy
#68. Michael will go ballistic if you start a fire up here again." "Michael needs to switch to decaf.
Brigid Kemmerer
#69. She was starting to get a little breathless from trailing Casper, though the guys weren't having any trouble. "How far have we gone? Like three miles?"
Gabriel gave her a look. "Like one."
So she needed more cardio.
Brigid Kemmerer
#70. As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
Brigid Schulte
#71. If we take out one, we have to take out all. We can't risk collateral damage."
"Say 'collateral damage' again. That sounded sexy.
Brigid Kemmerer
#72. The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.
Brigid Brophy
#73. She hit him. Hard. Right in the face ...
"Holy shit," said Quinn. "Would it be wrong if I applaud?
Brigid Kemmerer
#74. I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't
Brigid Brophy
#75. Becca remembered something Chris had said earlier. "Wait, I thought you would be benched all year if you got in another fight."
Gabriel laughed. "You're sweet. I'm not worried."
"You're not?"
"Nah. Don't you remember? They all think I'm Nick.
Brigid Kemmerer
#76. But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.
Brigid Schulte
#77. So, Chris," he said. "You couldn't make a smaller cut?"
Nick's eyes were closed, but he smiled."Chris asked me to bite him first."
Gabriel gave him a disguested look."You are one sick bastard."
"I was desperate." Chris smiled, too, but then he dropped it. "Desperate people do crazy things.
Brigid Kemmerer
#78. His expression changed, and he took a step back. He looked away. "When you said it was broken, you were just being-"
"No! It is. My phone. Broken." Now she sounded like Yoda on crack.
Brigid Kemmerer
#79. The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all.
Brigid Brophy
#80. Aaron Spelling kept trying to bring vampires about, and I feel badly that it happened so much later. He was ahead of his time, in that regard.
Brigid Brannagh
#81. Hunter leaned close. "Just to be clear: I'd know exactly what to do if you threw yourself at me."
Then he was in his car, starting the ignition, leaving her in the parking lot, nothing more than a melted puddle of hot, bothered, and seriously pissed off.
Brigid Kemmerer
#83. Becca ~ Do something! she cried. Can't you build a wall of ice, or ... -
Chris ~ Are you kidding? he said. I'm not an X-Man!
Brigid Kemmerer
#84. The stuff of life never ends. That is life. You will never clear your plate so you can finally allow yourself to get to the good stuff. So you have to decide. What do you want to accomplish in this life?
Brigid Schulte
#85. What is with you?" said Chris.
"Don't worry," said Quinn. "I already know he's an ass."
"Love you, too," said Gabriel.
Brigid Kemmerer
#86. Aren't your parents going to freak when they see you?"
That rough laugh again. "I'd probably freak if I saw them.
Brigid Kemmerer
#87. She wanted to touch him because Hunter looked like he needed someone to be gentle with him for five minutes.
Brigid Kemmerer
#88. To whom it may concern: I'm not involved. Honest. Hugs, Becca.
Brigid Kemmerer
#89. You're probably thinking I owe you my life."[Chris]
"No." she [Becca] snapped.
"Just sixty bucks."
"You charge for the hero act?" [Chris]
Brigid Kemmerer
#90. Casper, she said someone has to hold your leash.
The dog barked.
Then he dipped his head, picked up the end of the leash in his mouth, and trotted after his master.
Brigid Kemmerer
#91. And she remembered the way he had gone from total control to utter disaster with the flip of a switch, like watching an intricate glass sculpture shatter into a thousand pieces - only to pull together again until you could barely see the seams.
Brigid Kemmerer
#92. Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.
Brigid Lowry
#93. I consider myself the queen of pugs of New York City. I'm really into my dogs. Massive pugs, massive needlepoint, massive color!
Brigid Berlin
#94. You know what sucks about sorry? It's the worst word in the world. Because it always happens after you fuck up something good.
Brigid Kemmerer
#95. Sentimentalist is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn't.
Brigid Brophy
#96. O I'm so afraid that it's true about to travel hopefully being better than to arrive. It might be all in the quest, all in the search, all in the anticipation. When it came, there might be nothing there.
Brigid Brophy
#97. We work to have leisure, on which happiness depends. - Aristotle
Brigid Schulte
#98. The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.
Brigid Brannagh
#99. I also told Nick she's a player, and I'm not interested."
Becca smiled a little ruefully. "I believe that."
Hunter frowned. "What does that mean?"
"It means I've listened to her hit on every guy on the porch.I'm surprised she's not mounting Casper.
Brigid Kemmerer
#100. I've never had food in my fridge. All I have in my fridge is one shelf of Canada Dry ginger ale, Diet Cokes on the next shelf, and ZeroWater on the next shelf. That is it.
Brigid Berlin
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