Herzbruch Quotes

#1. The happiest days of our lives [are] days such as this when one's work [begins] to reach fruition and to assume the contours of its imminent completion.

(A. Herzbruch, in A Murder at Dragon Bay)

Steven William Lawrie

#2. There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich.

Charles Bukowski

#3. For the thousandth time, Faith wondered why this appealed to her. She detested letting men walk all over her, letting them think they were supreme beings. But when Mr. Meisner did all these diabolical things to her, her body fired up and wanted more.

Cari Silverwood

#4. He was the bandage - and, now, the wound.

Aly Martinez

#5. If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Jacques Barzun

#6. When you celebrate, there is sure to be cake."
Florence Ditlow, in "The Bakery Girls.

Florence Ditlow

#7. To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel.

Meir Soloveichik

#8. The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Alan Ball

#9. Fuck you," he ground out.
"No thanks, sweetheart. That brief moment of insanity has passed." (Sin)

Santino Hassell

#10. It was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.

Kate Morton

#11. The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

Frances O'Grady

#12. Even as a young girl, straight women loved me. Straight women like me a lot more than lesbians do. Isn't that weird?

Jackie Warner

#13. I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. No more stalemates because they thought her unqualified and unhinged.
No more tiptoeing around a room because women oughtn't to run. To shout. To rule.
And above all: no more blighted regrets.

Susan Dennard