Top 32 Merkin Quotes
#1. There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.
Daphne Merkin
#2. Mr. Grey will see you in a few minutes. Would you like a refreshment while you wait? Coffee, soda, tea ... ?" "Gravy," I say.
Fanny Merkin
#3. No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.
Daphne Merkin
#4. Are you ready for my love gun?" he says.
Uh-oh. "What's a love gun? Is that a sex toy?"
"No," he says. "I'm talking about my penis."
"Oh," I say. "Then yes. Fire away
Fanny Merkin
#6. News flash, Mr Grey: This isn't 1950 or whatever. Your sexual tastes aren't as shocking or as deviant as you think.
Fanny Merkin
#7. Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise. Somewhere, like in Krazy Kat, you've got to throw the brick.
Richard Merkin
#8. Walmart suddenly smells like a prosti-tot pageant.
Fanny Merkin
#9. HOLY MOTHER EFFING SPARKLY VAMPIRES IS HE HOT
Fanny Merkin
#10. Are you hitting on me, Mr. Grey?" I tease, lightly drizzling balsamic vinaigrette on my spinach salad. He giggles. "I scream, you scream ... we all scream for ice cream," he says, licking a chocolate-and-vanilla-swirl ice cream cone.
Fanny Merkin
#11. I'd do you."
"I think you did once" I say.
"Oh yeah.
Fanny Merkin
#12. Merkin had used only one drop of the "just soap." Two drops would have made her Master walk slightly awkwardly. Three drops would have made a Victorian gentleman utter something really lustful, such as "you transfix me quite.
Sorin Suciu
#13. Behind the cool mask of bravado, past the one-way mirror of his mind, underneath the rock-solid layers of self-control, in the Zen garden that was Master Sewer's soul, a high-pitched anxiety fart rustled through the still leaves. If farts could talk, this one would have said, Damn coppers!
Sorin Suciu
#14. Air is like cable TV: you don't appreciate it until you don't have it.
Fanny Merkin
#15. My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.
Daphne Merkin
#16. I spend the rest of the night doing schoolwork. After striking a match and lighting a candal, I sit down at my desk with my quill pen and parchment to write an essay for my ethics class on the legalities of fan fiction.
Fanny Merkin
#17. I feel naked in my Tommy hoodie and Victoria's Secret sweatpants with PINK written across the ass. The sweatpants aren't pink though - they're gray. This always confuses me when I put them on, because shouldn't they say GRAY - on the backside? Maybe Victoria's secret is she's colorblind.
Fanny Merkin
#18. I walk through the glass doors and into the lobby, which is floor-to-ceiling glass and steel. This fascinates me to no end, because buildings back in Portland are made of grass and mud.
Fanny Merkin
#19. Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.
Daphne Merkin
#20. Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie, go out for a bite, cheer up.
Daphne Merkin
#21. Here's the aisle with tape."
"Thank you, Miss Steal," he says. He picks up the most expensive brand, which runs $3.99 a roll. This guy is a total baller.
Fanny Merkin
#22. I had to grow the hair down there. But because of years of waxing, as all of us girls know, it doesn't come back quite the way it used to. They even made me a merkin - a wig - because they were so concerned that I might not be able to grow enough.
Kate Winslet
#23. I stare at her blankly. We don't have elevators in Portland. This is my first elevator ride. How do they work exactly?
Fanny Merkin
#24. Soon, we are as naked as the day we were born. Except, y'know, were not covered in blood and attached to our mothers by umbilical cords.
Fanny Merkin
#25. Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.
Daphne Merkin
#26. It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.
Daphne Merkin
#27. I gaze into his gazing eyes gazingly like a gazelle gazing into another gazelle's gazing gaze.
Fanny Merkin
#28. Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its pull.
Daphne Merkin
#29. On a scale ranging from very little to too much, Merkin could just about categorize the amount of personal data stored in Master Loo's computer as a shitload.
Sorin Suciu
#30. Take your finger out of your nose, Miss Steal.
Fanny Merkin
#31. Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.
Daphne Merkin
#32. We're here together. We'll get him back. I promise you," Eve said. "Merkin has no idea I'm with you. I've practiced killing for years, and tonight I'm going to use everything I've learned to save Cole. Do you believe me?
Debra Anastasia
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