Scabrous Quotes

#1. He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

Harry Crews

#2. Labor Day is really the last sweet taste of summer. One final pardon before all your Mondays become Mondays again.

Emma Mills

#3. You never know how much good you do.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#4. Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Karin Slaughter

#5. Childhood feels so permanent,

Jonathan Tropper

#6. Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

Louise Erdrich

#7. Dancy can hear rain beginning to fall on the tar-paper roof of the cabin. Fat summer raindrops, and it's the sweetest sound, almost, sweet as the end of a fever, as ripe as red apples.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#8. I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

Otto Dix

#9. Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

Jimmy Cannon

#10. I was more convinced than ever that everyone needed someone to love - even scattered sorceresses and eyepatch-wearing self-defense instructors.

Richelle Mead

#11. I never really know the protocol for this kind of situation. It's like when you're in line at a store, and a grandma starts telling you all about her grandchildren or her arthritis, and you smile and nod along. But then it's your turn to check out, so you're just like okay, well, good-bye forever.

Becky Albertalli

#12. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

Mark Lanegan

#13. subordinate groups are often pitted against one another in ways that draw attention away from the system of privilege that hurts them all.

Allan G. Johnson