Stacey > Stacey's Quotes

“Her sunny side was always up.”
― Richard Brautigan, Sombrero Fallout

“Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I'd thought I'd felt like shit that day, but really I'd barely even entered the intestine.”
― Mil Millington, A Certain Chemistry

“I left parts of myself everywhere,
The way absent-minded people leave
Gloves and umbrellas
Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck”
― Charles Simic

“It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.”
― Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.”
― Woody Allen

“I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“Although she didn't have the plumbing, she deluded herself that she was the modern W.C. (about Margaret Thatcher, M.T.)”
― Lydia Millet, George Bush, Dark Prince of Love

“When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.”
― Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus

“When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“I don't know enough to have any regrets”
― Vince Grabin