Thwonk Quotes

#1. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids on their windows by January second to rub it in. (Thwonk)

Joan Bauer

#2. She studied my face.
I rubbed my eyes. "I'm fine," I assured her.
That was five months ago. I wasn't fine then and I'm not fine now. (Thwonk)

Joan Bauer

#3. I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)

Joan Bauer

#4. I nearly tripped over Stieglitz, my dog, a forty-pound black-and-white keeshond (pronounced caze-hawnd) furball. He lunged at me with unbridled glee because the mere sight of my presence always made his day. It's important to have a dog. Dogs love unconditionally. (Thwonk)

Joan Bauer

#5. Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers.

Cory Doctorow

#6. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

William Shakespeare

#7. Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Dave Van Ronk

#8. Don't expect others to change. Instead, take on the project and see if you can become the change you want to see in the world. Try your best to let go of anger, blame and seeing yourself as a victim.

Sharon Gannon

#9. The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being.

Lorenzo Snow

#10. Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.

Ingmar Bergman