Prettying Quotes

#1. Are you boiling bacon? "Um. Is that wrong?" I say. "Argh! I want to punch you!" Leo says.

Roan Parrish

#2. I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.

Daniel Bruhl

#3. What use would God have for a sinner like me?'
'We're all sinners' Lilly said. 'The ground at the foot of the cross is even.

Jan Watson

#4. They say opposites attract, but like meets like, too.

Ruth Downie

#5. If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.

Thomas Reed

#6. A man and a woman represent two heavenly beings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Marcel Proust

#8. Their eager eyes unlocking the secrets of the human form. who could just look at it as it is, without prettying it up or emphasizing its awfulness

Janet Fitch

#9. Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying up the word slave with the adjective-noun constructions makes "enslaved African" sound nonchalant. As in "Those were the cabins of the jolly leprechauns.

Sarah Vowell