Magbanua Trial Quotes

#1. America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and in his heart, as in the nation itself, the perfect warred with the good, the intellectual with the visceral.

Jon Meacham

#2. Cunningham himself said in an interview in Poz that he couldn't help noticing that as soon as he wrote a novel without a blowjob, they gave him the Pulitzer Prize.

Christopher Bram

#3. Rachel bit her lip. I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test and I start spouting a prophecy in the middle of geometry class? The Pythagorean theorem shall be problem two ... Gods, that would be embarrassing.

Rick Riordan

#4. If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.

John Barrow

#5. As he shut the door, he was painfully aware that they were each talking about their young
only Wrath's had four paws and a tail.
Least he didn't have to worry about George succeeding him or being blind.

J.R. Ward

#6. Bedsprings creaking, headboard banging, heavy breathing in triplicate (the bedroom sounds like a convention of asthmatic dirty phone callers have gathered there)

Gillibran Brown

#7. Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

O. Henry

#8. Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.

Graeme Simsion

#9. Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

Margaret Fuller

#10. There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

Publilius Syrus

#11. I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.
From the back pages

Bob Dylan

#12. Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.

Jack Johnson

#13. Could hate a person, but in fact it's not worth it.
Never know how long you've got on this earth, kid.

Extra P

#14. Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.

Sarah McLachlan

#15. She preferred to be numb. And mostly these days she was. She played dead, sleepwalking her way through her life on autopilot, hardly caring whether he hit her or kissed her - it was all the same in the end.

Cleary James