Chickweed Quotes

#1. She dreamed that night of chickweed, which was a strange thing to dream about. Chickweed is a low, weedy little plant, not very distinguished. No one writes poetry comparing their lovers to chickweed (or if they do, the poems are rarely well received).

T. Kingfisher

#2. The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#3. The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

Eric Cantona

#4. Unless your goal is to train your readers to be detectives, only the details necessary to give the reader an idea of the scene should be included.

Kat Duncan

#5. If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#6. There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

Sheila Rowbotham

#7. Devour me.
I'll become part of you and always be with you.

Matsuri Hino

#8. Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

David Whitehouse

#9. Without bothering to knock, he turned the knob and pushed open the door.
"Jesus fuck!" he yelled, slamming the door closed.
"Knock much?" Danny screamed from inside her room, where he'd just seen her naked, on her knees, getting nailed by her husband.
Fucking hell.

Madeline Sheehan

#10. Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.

Jillian Lauren

#11. Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

#12. Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.

Zadie Smith

#13. I thought my entire life was coming apart, but I think I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

Jane Green

#14. No one in the history of the world had ever conceived of the idea that there could be a rebellion against a leader that would end not in a new leader but in a new kind of leadership altogether - a leadership that was accountable to those whom it led.

Eric Metaxas