Wendy > Wendy's Quotes

“I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles--drug or tattoo--and...no inessential penises either.'

'Inessential penises?' Karou had repeated, delighted with the phrase in spite of her grief. 'Is there any such thing as an essential one?'

'When an essential one comes along, you'll know,' he'd replied.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.”
― E.M. Forster

“That’s how it is when a person develops an attraction toward someone. He’s nowhere, then suddenly he’s everywhere, whether you want him to be or not.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“I 'Facebook like' you, but I'm not IN 'Facebook like' with you.”
― Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love

“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”
― Erich Fromm

“He was watching me, and he chuckled.

"Do you know how a man tames a wolf?" he asked me.

"No," I said.

"You get some clothing that you've been wearing for a while, and you toss it in with her. In the cage or the cavern where she sleeps. That first one, she rips up, shreds it to nothing. The second one, she just mouths it a bit, gets a taste. Inhales, like you're doing there. The third but of clothing, she starts dragging it around, loving on it, sleeping with it. And then you've got her under your spell. She's got the scent of you, wants to keep it around. She'll follow you everywhere."

"Are you calling me a wolf?" I asked.

"Are you calling me a man?" he said.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, Wicked as They Come

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“It’s nothing compared to happiness.”
I snorted through gritted teeth. “What happiness?”
“Exactly.”
“Reality interrupts—” Jaw clenching, my nostrils flared as I felt a gush of blood flow.
A whisper. “Life.” His blink was slow. “The mother of all bitches.”
“And the beauty?”
“Its absence is duly noted.”
“Only to be found by those later.”
Another swipe of my cheeks. “Once they’ve suffered to the point they scream for death.”
“Full circle.”
His hand found mine in a gentle hold. “Pain needs to be felt.”
― Scarlett Dawn, King Cave

“The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast.
For all who dream of varied light, the cat holds both the dark and bright.”
― Wendy Beck, 9th Life

“For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.”
― Wendy Beck, 9th Life

“A cat’s secrets run so deep that even the cat itself is often unaware. Their mysteries are as natural as whiskers.”
― Wendy Beck, 9th Life

“Once bitten, twice shy. Once caring, twice cry.
Once beloved, can’t deny—heart broken, twice die.”
― Wendy Beck, 9th Life

“Only a cat can seem well-traveled without ever leaving home.”
― Wendy Beck, 9th Life

“Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.”
― Wendy Beck, 9th Life

“Better to honor the pinch of fear than regret the punch of fang.”
― Wendy Beck, 9th Life

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Kirren was cloaked in exhaustion as if she’d splurged for it and now needed to get her money’s worth.”
― Wendy Beck, The Forgotten

“Did you just put a sex hex on me? With chili powder and paprika?”
― Maggie Montgomery, Tex-Mex Sex Hex

“Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling.”
― Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love

“There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“Then, in the spirit of benevolence, "Your face is well balanced." She slapped him encouragingly on the back, "You have very long eyelashes. Like a cow.”
― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“The Griffith House was like nothing Viviane remembered, reminding her of how fast the world changed and of how insignificant she was in the grand scheme of things. She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and difficult. One or the other seemed quite enough.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender