Pariah Pickups Quotes

#1. Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

Harold Wilson

#2. Never mind,' Gertchen said with a smile, 'you'll have to be pagan today.

Edward Rutherfurd

#3. Thank Artemis, it is you! That little scar on your lip
you tried to eat a stapler when you were two!"
...
Hedge nodded like he approved of Jason's taste. "Staplers
excellent source of iron.

Rick Riordan

#4. And in the stillness of the room you heard the roar and howl and crash of the great river whose flood had caught them land shaken them and brought Magnolia Ravenal to bed ahead of her time.

Edna Ferber

#5. The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

J.K. Rowling

#6. The gods of the hearth exist for us still; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest it bruise its own roots.

George Eliot

#7. Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Elaine Pagels

#8. Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can.

Amy Tan

#9. The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

Tom Vanderbilt

#10. The bed woke Kali up with a soft caress, dressed her in her favorite comfy robe, and gently deposited her, standing vertically, in one-sixth gravity.

@hg47