Kahina Carina Quotes

#1. She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it.

Robin Hobb

#2. She looks up at me, still rocking. "Henry ... why did me decide to do this again?"
"Supposedly when it's over they hand you a baby and let you keep it."
"Oh yeah."
Wednesday, September 5, 2001

Audrey Niffenegger

#3. Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Rebecca West

#4. I almost never listen to the radio.

Bjarke Ingels

#5. Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don't know how you got from one to the next.

Franny Billingsley

#6. Go get dirty, baby girl. And I mean the naked kind.

Kelly Moran

#7. It's like compound interest with a turbocharger.

Gary Keller

#8. Jenny Boylan might be the one person in this world whom I now think of purely as a human being, free of all the corporeal baggage of chromosomes, hormones, and footwear.

Tim Kreider

#9. It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. Not that he had anything to worry about. Personally, Sissy would like to avoid having acid thrown in her face. She was wacky that way.

Shelly Laurenston

#11. I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

Nora Ephron

#12. He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her.
But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?

Guillaume Musso

#13. I love the NBC comedies. I DVR 'Parks and Recreation,' 'Community,' 'The Office,' '30 Rock.' I love most of the HBO shows. I love 'Archer.' 'Archer's a great show. I'm big on Netflix; I've seen every episode of 'Freaks and Geeks.' We need more shows like that.

Stephen Colletti

#14. I pay attention to every system of conventions and expectations, above all literary conventions and the expectations they generate in readers. But that law-abiding side of me, sooner or later, has to face my disobedient side. And, in the end, the latter always wins.

Elena Ferrante

#15. I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.

Ozzy Osbourne