Scary Demon Quotes

#1. What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

Bryan Cranston

#2. I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

Emily Giffin

#3. An oppressive odor of decay now mingled with the stench of mold and seemed to clutch at the very breath in their lungs.

Kaoru Kurimoto

#4. There were thousands of women in New York alone who could replace me in his life, but there was only one Gideon Cross.

Sylvia Day

#5. If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

Desmond Tutu

#6. Oh, he said softly. It was like this wasn't even a word. It felt more like he was laying out a stone for me to step on, so that I could keep going.

Morgan Matson

#7. First I have to accept the fact that you're kindhearted, now I have to accept the fact that you're insightful as well. I knew you were powerful, ruthless, and pretty, but that you have a mind and a heart besides is going to take some getting used to.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in the number of murders, well, it will mean that they have been quite useful in some way or another."

William C. Brown

#9. Ordinary is an insult to excellence.

Jury Nel

#10. If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.]

Estelle Jussim

#11. Whatever its origin, the Demon Hand is a scary thing to face. When you get in and out of bed today, be sure to run and jump onto the mattress, no matter what your parents say. No one wants to feel the furry touch of that black claw as it curls around your ankle and pulls you into the darkness ...

David Bowles

#12. Embracing what is We're conditioned to believe that painful feelings are "bad" and that pleasurable ones are "good." It's often easier - though not healthier - for us to avoid grief and sorrow, while only embracing sensations like happiness, confidence, and love.

Sharon Salzberg

#13. There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's

Jed Rubenfeld