Greenmantle Roses Quotes

#1. I don't make friends easily, because I think most people are useless idiots. I don't see that as being a flaw on my part. There is no such thing as a "people person"; some people are just better at faking niceness. I put in an effort occasionally.

Ashley Little

#2. Patrice had long since buried the particulars of events so painful that they caused her to resolve only to see good. With such a stance, such as dissociative split, she could walk with evil and believe it did not exist. She was Joe's perfect mate.

Judith Spencer

#3. Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.

Alice Cooper

#4. She picks off my glasses and kisses the parts of my face that almost never get touched, the skin under the glass and frame

Junot Diaz

#5. Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'

Jack McDevitt

#6. I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

Miguel Syjuco

#7. Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.

Catherine Sanderson

#8. He knows how love blinds people to the truth about the one they are in love with.

Jonathan Franzen

#9. [L]ike the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Catherine Marshall

#11. Mermaids don't drown.

Suzanne Palmieri