Paula Phillips > Paula 's Quotes

“Here's to our enduring sisterhood. May it bind us together more tightly that the Lycra in my Spanx underpants.”
― Susan McBride, The Cougar Club

“Eat to Live, Not Live to Eat, Be Shadows of the Night, Be One With the Darkness, And Never Let in the Light”
― Pierre Roustan

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton

“1) I’m, a, comma, whore. Apparently, I throw them around like confetti. Or glitter. The title of my next book: WHY COMMAS RULE THE WORLD, AND STUFF.”
― Kimberly Derting

“I loved voices, I always had. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.”
― Kimberly Derting, The Pledge

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare

“Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry

“The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.”
― Graham Parke, No Hope for Gomez!

“I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.”
― Graham Parke, Unspent Time

“Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.”
― Graham Parke

“A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness

“Mooner was walking around laying his hands on the cars, divining karma. "this is it", he said, standing by a small khaki-colored jeep."this car has protective qualities"
You mean like a guardian angel?"
I mean, like, it has seatbelts”
― Janet Evanovich, Hot Six

“The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled.
Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna have to try it out at the seniors meeting.”
― Janet Evanovich, Hot Six

“Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week."
Carl Costanza - Hot Six”
― Janet Evanovich, Hot Six

“Ranger Smiled. 'You want me to be Superman? Spend the night with me.”
― Janet Evanovich, Hot Six

“I’m going back to bed,” Grandma said when Mooner and Dougie left. “This doesn’t look too interesting. I liked it better the other night when you were on the floor with the bounty hunter.”
Morelli gave me the same kind of look Desi always gave Lucy when she’d just done something incredibly stupid.
“It’s a long story,” I said.
“I bet.”
― Janet Evanovich, Hot Six

“Saved by the grandma"
Ranger”
― Janet Evanovich, Hot Six

“I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.”
― Janet Evanovich, Hot Six

“Amen" Lula said and she made the sign of the cross.
"I thought you were Baptist."
"Yeah, but we don't got any hand signals for an occasion like this.”
― Janet Evanovich, Hot Six

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”
― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984