Calpernia Country Quotes

#1. Take care of my heart, I've left it with you.

Stephenie Meyer

#2. I don't look down on them, but what can you do? If a man has only ever driven a rickshaw and never in his life held a book in his hand, then what can you expect from him?

Monica Ali

#3. One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

Felix Frankfurter

#4. The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

M. Scott Peck

#5. The truth is supposed to hurt. That's how it lets you know you don't got it.

Brad Stine

#6. Amen,' I exclaim, accidentally spitting out a Raisinet. I pick up the chocolate with a Kleenex and stuff it in my purse. Ten bucks says a month from now I'll have forgotten about it and will finally have said heart attack when I assume a rat shat in there.

Jen Lancaster

#7. I may not have done it with grace, but I fought my way into something better and more enlightened ... My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends.

Drew Barrymore

#8. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

Shirley Jackson

#9. Lord knows, I need a little action tonight or my vagina might just run off and join the circus.

Harper Sloan

#10. I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

Ann Leckie

#11. I don't even know you!"
"Oh," Casey said, "You will."
"Don't you threaten me!

T.J. Klune

#12. I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

Francis Ford Coppola