Maryclaire Manard Quotes

#1. Dying
shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

Robert Penn Warren

#2. We live in a generation that applauds the bad more than it commends the good.

Pierre Alex Jeanty

#3. Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

Joe Strummer

#4. The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done with my picture books. It's really rewarding to think that they can grow up reading my books at all the different levels.

Grace Lin

#5. The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.

Volkmar Sigusch

#6. Well, that's splendid!" Mr. Goat said. "As long as we preserve our friendship - that's the important thing." "Yes!" Olivia said. "Exactly!" There was a pause. "Can I kiss you?" Mr. Goat said. Olivia groaned. "I just want to be friends," she said firmly. "That's all." "I

Simon Rich

#7. When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained.

Heidi Julavits

#8. She didn't know yet that sometimes life makes different choices than you do. Stupid life.

Emily Bleeker

#9. Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

Eddie Vedder

#10. It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Harold W. Dodds

#11. It's a strange, surreal thing to watch an ideal crumble right in front of your eyes, and to know there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Jessi Kirby

#12. Prostitution has the same relationship to trafficking as sex has to rape. One is voluntary, the other is not

Merlyn Gabriel Miller