Sandy Bell > Sandy's Quotes

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I want that Easter Ham. Where's my Thanksgiving Turkey?" Miss Trixie snarled”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“The powerful chords that emanated from the radio heated me from the inside out, like a microwave.”
― Sandy Ward Bell, In Zoey's Head

“Upright, she's slapped with the aroma of musk and sweat. It's the good hunky, 'shirtless man building a dollhouse for his daughter' kind of perspiration, not the 'he just mowed the lawn' kind of stench.”
― Sandy Ward Bell, Parked at the Mansfields'

“I take my food very seriously. Whenever I hear that bell, I know Mrs. Norris is hankerin' for some spam.”
― Sandy Ward Bell, Parked at the Mansfields'

“Chloe leans back in the leather recliner trying to recall the name of the person she murdered.”
― Sandy Ward Bell, Bold

“I must admit that I have not witnessed your ritual, yet I recall you informing me that your pet cannot perform her outside duties without one of your musical numbers.”
― Sandy Ward Bell, Bold