Gristly Quotes

#1. Listen: the dark we've only ever imagined now audible, thrumming,
marbled with static like gristly meat. a chorus of engines churns.
silence taunts: a dare. everything that disappears
disappears as if returning somewhere.

Tracy K. Smith

#2. Three Meatloaf Haikus
Oh yucky meatloaf
sitting under the hot lights
so gray and gristly.
Nothing tastes worse than
you, not cauliflower or
even lima beans.
And what is that weird
thing sticking out
a whisker?
hair? a rubber band?

Jennifer L. Holm

#3. So does that mean we get Eric, too?" Willa said. "Because Eric is definitely hot, and if I had my choice I'd take Eric over some white-haired king merman any day.

Ridley Pearson

#4. I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Tom Stoppard

#5. It's an accident when cars collide." The remnants of desired hoarsened Walsh's voice. "When lips collide it's a kiss.

Kennedy Ryan

#6. If you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.

Agatha Christie

#7. Scars might heal and we might forget about them in time, but they're permanent. Not even Jesus lost his scars.

Sylvain Reynard

#8. Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

Bobby Knight

#9. It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.

Jeanette Lee