Joy Cowley Quotes

#1. Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)

Rainbow Rowell

#2. Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

Mark Twain

#3. See with the eyes of love and a thing becomes beautiful. See with the eyes of hate and things are ugly.

Joy Cowley

#4. They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

Anne Tyler

#5. I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.

Joy Cowley

#6. The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

Dawn Powell

#7. She rested her head on Esther's shoulder and let the fuzzy warmth of her hug flow through her. It was the kind of warmth that clicked your bones back into place, smoothed out your muscles and made your blood sing a soft lullaby all the way around your body.

Joy Cowley

#8. You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.

Gail Zappa