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“The truth: after just one novel, I had lost touch with my muse. The quietly desperate, jaded girl in my head had stopped slinging sardonic wit into my psyche.”
― Roz Bailey, Mommies Behaving Badly

“Four AM last call proved to me that the late-night hours had a mystical, ethereal quality ripe with dangerous possibilities.”
― Roz Bailey, Mommies Behaving Badly

“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

“This is a cardinal Ya-Ya rule: you must meet each person's eyes while clinking glasses in a toast. Otherwise, the ritual has no meaning, it's just pure show. And that is something the Ya-Yas are not.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous”
― Gertrude Stein

“Life is short, but it is wide. Genevieve Whitman taught me that.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“Of all the secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood the most divine was humor.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

“We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

“Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die that we may live, they are substitute people, hunters in the fall killing the deer, that is Christ also. And we eat them, out of cans or otherwise; we are eaters of death, dead Christ-flesh resurrecting inside us, granting us life. Canned Spam, canned Jesus, even the plants must be Christ.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

“The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

“They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.”
― Tom Perrotta, Little Children

“If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.”
― Tom Perrotta, Little Children

“The thing was to wear a bathing suit and look good in it, to somehow make yourself worthy of the scenario you were volunteering for.”
― Tom Perrotta, Little Children

“She took care of evyone with the same no-nonsense air of friendliness and good cheer that made her seem so paradoxically wholesome, as if she were convinced that being a slut and being a really nice person were just two things that naturally went together.”
― Tom Perrotta, Little Children

“It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.”
― Tom Perrotta, Little Children

“Something had happened to him ove the past couple of years, something to do with being home with Aaron, sinking into the rhythm of a kid's day. The little tasks, the small pleasures. The repetition that goes beyond boredom and becomes a kind of peace. You do it long enough, and the adult world starts to drift away. You can't catch up with it, not even if you try.”
― Tom Perrotta, Little Children

“It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a regular basis.”
― Tom Perrotta, Little Children

“I slide down between the sheets beside him, like a secret letter slipped into the safety of an envelope. And dream of ancient places, where everyone is young.”
― Lisa Grunwald, Whatever Makes You Happy