Carol Ann Duffy Critical Quotes

#1. Kayso, Foo finally came home and I jumped into his arms and sort of rode him to the ground with a massive tongue kiss so deep that I could taste the burned cinnamon toast of his soul, but then I slapped him, so he didn't think I was a slut. (Shut up, he had wood.)
Being the Journal of Abby Normal

Christopher Moore

#2. If the hero does not match the story, it is the hero, not the story, who must be rewritten.

Lauren Kate

#3. I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Rob Zombie

#4. Up by the fortress was this ... thinadeskite you mentioned?" Mulaghesh grimaces. So much for state secrets. "Yes.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#5. Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

Jose Mourinho

#6. Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

Rae Armantrout

#7. Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

M.F.K. Fisher

#8. Generations of parents have upheld this line if thinking. When a daughter showed a promise of talent, they saw it as a curse and worried that she would die young. Eventually, the very lack of talent became a sure sign of virtue for women.

He Zhen

#9. You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

Aaron McGruder

#10. What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

Henry David Thoreau

#11. One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.

Cyra McFadden

#12. Abortion is the easy way out. It's hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

Tony Abbott

#13. Darkness is just light turned inside out.

Beelzebub