Mentioner Quotes

#1. In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they're frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner's fault.

Elizabeth McCracken

#2. Woodrow don't mention nothing he can keep from mentioning. You couldn't call him a mentioner.

Larry McMurtry

#3. We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

Nick Hornby

#4. Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. "Are you all right?"
"Yes. Sorry," he whispered. "I'm just having an attack of limericks."
Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip; only her deepening dimple betrayed her. "Shhh," she said, with feeling.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#5. For some reason he thinks of Diane in her unbecoming red ski jacket and decides that her life is her life, there is not much use worrying about it. And he thinks of his wife, pretending to laugh at the television. Her quietness.

Alice Munro

#6. I am Notak," he answered in his dry, normal voice. "I kill Demons.

S.G. Night

#7. Love dwindles by pairing.

Austin O'Malley