Xliii In Roman Quotes

#1. If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

Pete Rose

#2. I'd always liked her in a way I never had to think about, like the fact of my own hands.

Emma Cline

#3. She turned to him and pulled her lips in what he knew must be a smile. Not at all. I'm having a lovely time. Really.

John Edward Williams

#4. Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

Oliver Goldsmith

#5. Aren't you supposed to be taking my order?' I asked.
'Bite me. And then you can tell me what's wrong.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#6. Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.

Neil Gaiman

#7. At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.

Filo Tiatia

#8. You are my king. You could command me to stop seeing her."
Niall turned his gaze to Irial. "What would you do?"
"Blind myself, if you were foolish enough to use those words.

Melissa Marr

#9. No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#10. In my 'Big Dinners' cookbook, I recreated my mother's recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing.

Tom Douglas