The Shining Girls Quotes

#1. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun.

Charles Bukowski

#2. Amanda had way too much time to think being at the hospital without any friends. She didn't want to dwell on her thoughts for too long lest the wrong ones might emerge. She was hoping to forget what happened to her.

Jason Medina

#3. When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called 'A Shining Season,' and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 or 9. Timothy played a runner who had cancer, and he defied the odds by coaching a girls' team to victory.

Reggie Lee

#4. Dear Mornings,I know you hate me but don't you worry because I hate you too!

Sonya Watson

#5. Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Chuck Knox

#6. Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist. But they don't. And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ's apostles, they were destroyed by envy on the battlefront.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. Life is so bloody hard. I don't want the whole struggle to be pointless. If I'm going to get crap thrown at me from great heights my whole life, well, I want to damn well make sure I leave a mark on this world in exchange for all the misery.

Holly Bourne

#8. No one said it would be pretty, yanking despair out of a woman.

Lauren Beukes

#9. And he's sorry he ever doubted the House. She's the one. One of the ones. His shining girls.

Lauren Beukes

#10. The women were blank, shining areas with photographs of sad girls floating in them.

Denis Johnson

#11. The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

Vaclav Klaus