Thorny Plants Quotes

#1. We stepped carefully, so softly, over thorny plants. The dust had turned to mud, splattering our shoes, socks, and legs. By the time we reached the boat, our clothes were clinging to our flesh and stained with the bloody remains of mosquitoes.

Mia Kirshner

#2. He ran the back of his hand up her cheek, with the pretense of wiping away sweat. Do you think you could ever love me?
I don't think so.
Because I'm not good enough.
It's not like that.
Because I'm not smart.
No.
Because you couldn't love me.
Because I couldn't love you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

Sidney Sugarman

#4. You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

H. Rap Brown

#5. And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

William Shakespeare

#6. There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.

Richard Selzer

#7. A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs.

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. Whatever I put on - if I'm feeling trendy or if I'm feeling sexy - my clothes definitely represent who I am at the time.

Britney Spears

#9. Simone crossed herself and prayed as she watched headlights coming at them, fast and furious. Her hands shaking from fright, she buckled herself in while Jesse screamed out like a terrified child in the back seat. As if he could die.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited.

Dorothy Atkinson

#11. I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

Donald Hall

#12. I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.

Gillian Flynn

#13. Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

Joel Edgerton