Judith Ivory Quotes

#1. Yey more and more there seemed a bevy of things she was not supposed to think about and by virtue of trying not to, she hardly thought of anything else.

Judith Ivory

#2. Life is a bleak place. Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.

Tahereh Mafi

#3. Any woman who can make you happy has all the information she needs to make you miserable if she wants to.

Judith Ivory

#4. We are all evil in some form or another, are we not?

Richard Ramirez

#5. The past is the past. It's now up to us to sustain our own culture. We only lose what we fail to nurture.

James Rollins

#6. Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Hannah Arendt

#7. I can't protect you from mean people, because they're everywhere, but I would be nice. That much, I can promise."
"Fine," she said. "If I"m pregnant, you can marry me." He folded his harms and contemplated her motionlessly from the dark. Then said,
"Not that nice.

Judith Ivory

#8. He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and the garden green.

Andrew Peterson

#9. Oh, Stuart. You think you can do anything. It's one of your great charms, but it's also one of your most aggravating qualities when you think you can move unmovable mountains.

Judith Ivory

#10. She went about that afternoon looking under sheep like a pervert, happy with all the dark, purple-pink tissue at their hindquarters. New lambs in the spring.

Judith Ivory

#11. The ferret didn't matter. Because there was something about Mick that wasn't a fake anything. And Winnie herself felt more real somehow, running around, looking for the little animal that meant so much to him.

Judith Ivory

#12. But you are lucky. You are going to live. The one ball that might have killed you just pushed your intestines aside - like a marble dropped into a bowl of spaghetti.

Judith Ivory

#13. The most consistent thing about Graham Wessit was his attitude of open experiment. Can you even imagine , she asked herself, plain, quiet, intellectual little you spending a lifetime on the arm of such a havoc-producing man?

Judith Ivory

#14. What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp.

Judith Ivory

#15. People missed things. People didn't notice; people didn't care. People's own misperceptions made black into white, made grey into whatever they wanted it to be.

Judith Ivory

#16. You had no right." Oh, yes, he did. He suggested,
"Why don't you write that down. Put it in my handwriting. Perhaps I'll chance to read it, think I wrote it: Maybe then I'll believe you.

Judith Ivory

#17. Are you going to right your wrongs? Are you going to save the people you've unknowingly harmed?

Sarah Noffke

#18. [He was disgusted] at the beasts who in callous cruelty had dragged down and maimed and destroyed the human dignity of this selfless man. Yet it was nothing new. It had been like this at some point in every civilization and on every continent. There were human jackals for every human disaster.

Pat Frank

#19. Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.

Patti Callahan Henry

#20. You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

Felix Dennis

#21. A harem," she murmured into his neck and laughed at last at the notion. "I can't believe you had a harem. You are hilarious, Stuart." He laughed. At himself.
"I hated men. I loved women. I wanted them all. It seemed logical to start to accumulate them.

Judith Ivory

#22. Heartbreak can make you hard! But don't let it make you bitter.

Tyler Perry

#23. Very softly as he nuzzled her, his mouth near her ear, he began to sing: I'm so happy with you, la, la ...

Judith Ivory

#24. He looked for gestures, afraid of words

Judith Ivory

#25. We ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

Kathryn Stockett

#26. You're brave. You're good. Why would you hesitate to explore yourself? Your dark nooks and crannies? With someone who is fascinated by the whole of you? You aren't a bad woman, merely a human one, which entails a certain amount of" - he cocked his head - "'awfulness,' as you call it.

Judith Ivory

#27. A man in cahoots with a woman's sexual instinct was the devil himself, for he had the united power over her - himself and her own longing - greater than a mere man

Judith Ivory

#28. When we reached the bus-stop we were a long way behind in the queue and when the bus came it took only half a dozen people. I noticed a group of priests looking down on us from the upper deck and I felt that somehow the Pope and his Dogmas had triumphed after all.

Barbara Pym