Maria > Maria's Quotes

“This isn't true", Patty says. "You'll find someone. You just can't be afraid to take a risk."

What is she talking about? I do nothing but take risks. I'm trying to keep a psychopath from killing again. Isn't that enough? I have to have a ring on my finger, too?

Some people are never satisfied.”
― Meg Cabot, Size 12 Is Not Fat

“Is your boss in? Because I think we'd better speak to him."
"Well," I say. "That's going to be hard."
"Why, for heaven's sake?" Brian wants to know.
"Because he got shot in the head yesterday," I reply.
Brian flinches. But Mr. Rosetti just nods.
"It happens," he says, with a shrug.”
― Meg Cabot, Big Boned

“Or maybe the business is dealing coke. Or human trafficking. Wow, I have a low opinion of my family.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A For Aunties

“Meddy, how can you say that? Your aunties coming over, so late at night, coming to help us get rid of body, and we don’t even offer them any food? How can? Oh, we have dragon fruit, good, good.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A For Aunties

“I look at the ceiling. Pretty sure that when Glad was planning their marketing campaign, they didn’t think their target market would be a bunch of middle-aged Chinese women arguing about how to best dispose of a body.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A For Aunties

“Yes, you right, more respectful". She pats me on the cheek. "I raise you so well".

Hysteria rises from deep in my stomach and I have to swallow it. Trust Ma to take pride in my etiquette when I've just shown her my date, whom I've killed, in the trunk of my car.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“There's a glint in her eye that she gets the week before Chinese New Year, when she goes absolutely berserk and cleans the house like Marie Kondo on crack.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“You're not a mess. You just kill by accident only. Bad luck. Can happen to anyone.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“I'm not some plastic dolly bird. This is all me!" She gestures over her impressive body. "Apart from my boobs. But it's only polite to have your boobs done. It's only manners.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“Don't worry about it? She's told me not to worry about it? She clearly doesn't know me at all.”
― T.S. Easton, Boys Don't Knit (in Public)

“God knows what I'm going to tell Dad. December 15th is s Sunday, maybe I'll tell him I'm going to church.
He'll take that better than the knitting.”
― T.S. Easton, Boys Don't Knit (in Public)

“Knitting is more fun with company. Company is more fun with knitting.”
― T.S. Easton, Boys Don't Knit (in Public)

“I’ve read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“What is the actual plural of "penis"?' I ask. 'Is it "penises"?'
'Or it could be "peni"?' offers Cassie. 'Like fungi.'
'I think it should be "pena",' I tell her. 'Although that does sound a bit like a type of pasta.'
'Ohh, ohh, I've got it,' cries Cassie. 'You know that "goose" becomes "geese"? What if one penis becomes many "poonis"?”
― Rebecca Smith