Cook Island Sayings

#1. To give her some incentive, he took her hands away from her face and kissed her. It was a soft, chaste kiss, but it wasn't short and it wasn't brotherly.

L.J.Smith

#2. I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#3. Pair of Stephens Island wrens, which were found only on a small, isolated island in New Zealand's Cook Strait. All were killed by a lighthouse keeper's cat.

Bill Bryson

#4. Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.

Andrea Dworkin

#5. You can eat a lot more vegetables than you can cotton candy. Bring on the veggies. Stay away from the fluffy carbs.

Stephen Furst

#6. Memories do not hurt, they only influence.

Peter F. Hamilton

#7. Prayer can never be in excess.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. LYNDA (TO TINY):
Look forward to the moment
when it falls apart.
Look forward to the
moment
when you must
rearrange your
heart.
It might feel like the
end of the world-
but it's the
beginning of your
art.

David Levithan

#9. Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences.

Dave Barry

#10. People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

Isadora Duncan

#11. I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.

Saul David

#12. She wanted a life not full of things, but stories, so many stories that, if they'd had weight and heft, they wouldn't have fit into a thousand suitcases.

Sarah Addison Allen