Sharryn Kasmir Quotes

#1. His expression was impassive. Somewhere, I just knew, he must have a slew of illegitimate children, all named Bartholomew.

Catherine Lowell

#2. Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

Ovid

#3. The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

Aleksandar Hemon

#4. Dickens writes that one of his characters, listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

Charles Dickens

#5. You need to put on a pretty dress and have Corinne arrange your hair... and don't forget to bring your mind.
--Julie de Bercy

Laurel Corona

#6. To relax is not to collapse, but simply to undo tension.

Vanda Scaravelli

#7. Finding out what you don't like is, paradoxically, as valuable as finding out what you do like.

Susan Jeffers

#8. How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

Evelyn Waugh

#9. Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?

Glen Cook

#10. In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams ... all arrive unbidden when I'm getting cash at the ATM, walking my son to camp, singing a hymn at a wedding.

Julia Glass

#11. So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!

Charles Dickens

#12. It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man. - in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.

Usher

#13. Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting ... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Henry David Thoreau