Pawning Off Quotes

#1. She hoped the menfolk were having a nice, relaxing road trip in that souped-up man car they were riding in because as soon as they got to the Roberts' house, she was pawning off the woman formerly known as her sister onto the dude whose sperm had apparently turned her into a she-devil.

Julie James

#2. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.

Joss Sheldon

#3. If you're that hard up for money, Pidge ... "
"I'm not borrowing money from you," she sneered.
"I was gonna suggest pawning that bracelet." I smiled.

Jamie McGuire

#4. I don't spend money on shoes. I don't spend money on my hair. I don't spend money on really anything except for my skin. I am obsessed with skin, and I have been taking care of it since I was 19.

Sara Foster

#5. I have found life in you.'
'And I have found my heaven in you.' He told her.

Sara Naveed

#6. At Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 30 May 1921, fifty whites and two hundred blacks were murdered.

Paul Johnson

#7. The useful and the beautiful are never separated.

Periander

#8. I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

Andre Gide

#9. I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

Mike Duke

#10. Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.

Sue Grafton

#11. No more sending your clothes over to forensics to be dry-cleaned, no more running up kebab tabs on stakeouts and no more pawning items from the Evidence Room until payday.

Christopher Fowler

#12. Of course there are mothers,
squeezing their breasts
dry, pawning their bodies,
shedding teeth for their children,
or that's our fond belief.
But remember - Hansel
and Gretel were dumped in the forest
because their parents were starving.

Margaret Atwood

#13. A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

Seneca The Younger

#14. I'm all used up inside, love." Two tears slid down her cheeks. "That's not how I see you at all." "Which says more about you than it does about me, darling. I'm sorry." He

Kristan Higgins

#15. There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.

Alice Munro