Quotes About Alix

#1. So we're talking into death? (Alix)
Gods, I hope not. I don't have on the right boots for it. These are only good for a mild ass-whipping. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. No worries. They don't scare me. (Devyn) All right, but if my brain matter ends up smeared against a wall, I'll never forgive you. (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. Zarina stood. "You know, Alix, men suck. Really. They are the worst. Come with me. I need an estrogen fix before their chromosomal defects contaminate me any further." Still

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. She's a slave. (Paden)
You better be glad I'm cuffed or you'd be looking for your teeth right now. Alix Gerran isn't a slave. She's a lady, and I would die for her. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. But don't you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix)
Not at all. Love I understand completely. It's hatred that puzzles me. I don't comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. I love you, baby. And I want you to stay with me. Always. (Devyn)
Believe me, there's no place else I'd rather be. (Alix)
Me, either, but I would rather we be naked. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. Alix literally felt like the only piece of meat at a kennel as a team of women descended on her to trim her hair, tweeze her brows - something that had to have been invented by a sadist - and make her face over.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. While there was a playfulness to their caustic bards, there was also an aura of "I'll kick your ass back to the Steel Age if you so much as breathe my air the wrong way."' (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Believe me, if I start getting sick, you'll be the first to know since I'm sure it'll be all over you. (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. It'll probably be brutal, too. They might even feed you to the dog.
He doesn't have a dog.
Yeah, well, he might get one just to feed you to it.
She'd never been the kind of person to let something as ridiculous as rational logic interfere with her fear.' (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. Alix bore the blow without flinching. A block of marble. Her gaze was piercing and blank, her nose nobly arched. But one cheek was flaking. A hint of strange green and pink vegetation was invading her chin. Another winter perhaps would lay her low.

Marcel Proust

#12. Excuse me, scary people. (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. I have to try. I can't leave him there. You don't understand, Vik. I love him, and I can't let him pay for something I did. I don't care what it takes, we have to save him. (Alix)
Those words, little girl, just saved your life. (Shahara)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. Do you want to know the real reason I came back, Alix? It was because of you. You're my roots. Wherever you are would be home to me.

Katherine Allred

#15. You know, Alix, men suck. Really. They are the worst. Come with me. I need an estrogen fix before their chromosomal defects contaminate me any further. (Zarina)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. In fact, my mother always says that emotions are what the gods gave us to distract us from the pain of life. They are what make life bearable and what keeps us going no matter how hard it gets. (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. You want to start some shit, boy? Let's go outside. (Devyn)
Oh, good. I'm just in time for another round of Grand Testosterone Overdose. Ooooh, Alix, Claira ... anyone got popcorn? Or maybe I should get Taryn? Then we could insult his manhood and watch him pop a gasket, too. (Zarina)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. friends, and, of course," - he glanced toward their sleeping daughter - "the love of a father and mother for their child. All these taken together, with all the joy and pain that they confer - that can save us, surely. Love of life, Alix. You have it. And since I've found you, so do I.

Linda Barlow

#19. Thanks for outing me. (Alix)
Anytime, cupcake. Now I'm taking my psychic ass to bed. That door spanked me. (Nero)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. No one can make you feel low unless you allow them to. You're not stupid, Alix. And you're very beautiful. I just thought you should know that. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

Alix Smith

#22. Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the triangular, moss-covered pedestal hidden by her cape, like a crumbling goddess in a park.

Marcel Proust

#23. To my surprise, Nick reached under his shirt and pulled out the half-heart pendant. With his gaze fixed on mine, he slid the chain over my head. "No one should have to go through life with only half a heart," he whispered.

Katherine Allred

#24. What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.

Alix Smith

#25. Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.

Katherine Allred

#26. The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.

Alix Kates Shulman

#27. Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

Alix Kates Shulman

#28. As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can live as I did without dying or falling apart. I wanted people to understand that we don't need everything that our culture tells us we have to have to be satisfied.

Alix Kates Shulman

#29. One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.

Alix Kates Shulman

#30. how long before hope begins to eat itself? how many flags must be waved? when does a man let go of his wife's hand in order to hold his child?

Alix Olson

#31. Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

Alix Kates Shulman

#32. It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding if one succeeds. Rewarding not only to the work but to one's peace of mind.

Alix Kates Shulman

#33. I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.

Alix Kates Shulman

#34. Mothers. Can't live with them, can't hit them over the head with a board.

Katherine Allred

#35. I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.

Alix Kates Shulman

#36. My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

Alix Kates Shulman

#37. Just as the sailor yearns for port, the writer longs for the last line.

Alix Christie

#38. Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

Alix Kates Shulman

#39. For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage. It is the job of the photographer to capture the drama of the performance.

Alix Smith

#40. Please, hate me if you have to, never speak to me again, but don't settle for someone you don't love because I hurt you

Katherine Allred

#41. Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

Alix Kates Shulman

#42. In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.

Alix Kates Shulman

#43. I refer to what I do as 'conceptual portraits,' meaning that I come up with an idea or concept that I would like to explore, and then I find people that fit that idea.

Alix Smith

#44. You're the prettiest thing I've ever seen." "You're looking at my backside," she hissed. "That's hardly flattering, I'll have you-" His

Alix West

#45. If one day I should hear the hacker's slow, booted step on the stair, perhaps I'll suggest a cup of tea and try to get the story of his life.

Alix Kates Shulman

#46. There is a lot of gender segregation. You still have many poor women who work in women-only jobs. In the family, in most cases, only women have the double job of working outside the home and taking care of the family.

Alix Kates Shulman

#47. We were jigsawed, meant to fit together, making a whole picture.

Alix Ohlin

#48. Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. Its how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.

Alix Ohlin

#49. This isn't a church social, Sweetheart. You aren't going to be able to save me this time.

Katherine Allred

#50. When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.

Alix Kates Shulman

#51. People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a big effect on them and enabled them to change. I'm not sure I believe that a book will cause someone to change.

Alix Kates Shulman

#52. When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

Alix Kates Shulman

#53. For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

Alix Smith

#54. Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

Alix Kates Shulman

#55. For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

Alix Kates Shulman

#56. You can't turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you've created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can't see it anymore.

Katherine Allred

#57. As soon as I saw him again I could forget all this existed; I would be calm. Was that a definition of love: a force that can drug you with calm and help you forget all the sandpaper realities of the world?

Alix Ohlin

#58. For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

Alix Kates Shulman

#59. I actually think that 'States of Union' will be a lifelong endeavor for me. It won't take up all my energy as it has in recent years, but I imagine that I will always continue to add to the body of work - the project of documentation will never be entirely complete.

Alix Smith