Paper, Scissors, Death Quotes

“I can't understand people being rude to their spouses. Your husband or wife should be the one person in the world you treat with loving patience. He or she chose you above all others-for a lifetime! And yet I see women who are nicer to their girlfriends, and men who are more thoughtful toward their employees. That's meshuganeh. Friends come and go. Employees move on. Your partner is there for the long haul. He deserves your best every day of your life.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Cut, Crop & Die

“My life in crime began with a good deed. You”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Love, Die, Neighbor

“God, I mouthed the words, give me strength. That’s what I learned from George. Jews don’t pray to be delivered; they pray for strength. I had to stay tough.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death

“It’s not about how good the teacher is. It’s about how good the student feels.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death

“Animals bring out the best and worst in people. They don’t judge. They only love. They are really clear about who they like and who they don’t like. They can’t pretend. Pets cut right through deceptions we throw up to protect ourselves.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death

“That’s what a real friend does, she tells you what you don’t want to hear, even risking your friendship, because you are important to her.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death

“For the next year, you are my project. I’m going to turn you into a woman who can stand on her own two feet.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death

“People call her a “rescue dog,” and that’s a perfect description, because she came into my life and rescued me. Emotionally at least.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death

“We all have lives of value, no matter how different our journeys. From the variation in their pages, each of the girls seemed well on her way to a highly individualistic and exciting life.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death

“People call her a "rescue dog" and thats a perfect description, because she came into my life and rescued me. Emotionally at least.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death

“How did that blessing for newlyweds go? May your joys be multiplied and your sorrows divided.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Fatal, Family, Album

“Life is a series of solo experiences made bearable by the comfort of friends.
- Kiki Lowenstein”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Cut, Crop & Die

“I knew from experience that events tend to gang up on you. It's not one straw that breaks the camel's back - it's the cumulative straws piling up and weighing you down.
- Kiki Lowenstein”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Cut, Crop & Die

“In the big scheme of life, who knows how things will turn out? What seems to be a disaster at the time can bring you joy you never dreamed of. What seems like a wrong road could be the right one. There are no right decisions, only decisions that seem to go more smoothly than others. There are no wrong turns, only unexpected potholes in the road. And at the end of the day, all you can do is keep moving forward even when it's only an inch at a time.
- Kiki Lowenstein”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Cut, Crop & Die

“What? Household slaves? But you can’t have slaves here.” “Not legally. But the numbers of illegals coerced into forced labor is astonishing. It’s a crime that most people never realize is happening, because the slave has no way of asking for help.” “Back up. You keep using the term slave. Do you mean like a sex slave?” “Not always. See, there’s sex trafficking and labor trafficking. Florida has the third highest rate of labor trafficking. We’re almost tied with Texas. California takes the top spot. Labor trafficking is defined as coercing, forcing, or tricking someone into working for you.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, All Washed Up

“There was nothing to do but venture forth, in search of the person I might become. At”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Love, Die, Neighbor

“I hate it when the voice inside my head chews me out.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Love, Die, Neighbor

“There isn’t a girl on earth who’d willingly give up her bangles.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Love, Die, Neighbor

“My golf career was blessedly short. It lasted all of one class. "Hit that tiny ball? Really?" I shook my head as I studied the object on the tee. "And I'm supposed to put it over where?”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Love, Die, Neighbor

“Old hurts run deep. They hide inside you, only to be awakened at a moment's notice.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Love, Die, Neighbor

“What I really wanted — and needed — were friends of my own. People who would like and accept me for myself. Once”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Love, Die, Neighbor

“Parents don’t get to call in and take a day off. As always, the sight of her filled me with such an unbearable ache of love that it nearly knocked me to my knees. How could one small person have become my entire existence? I couldn’t even imagine life without her. She was the sum total of my reason for living. Picking”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Love, Die, Neighbor

“The jabs Sheila launched in my direction never failed to score a direct hit to my soft belly. I”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Love, Die, Neighbor

“When we found that person in the freezer, it done freaked me out. I ain’t thinking straight. I shoulda gone ahead and cleaned the refrigerator right then and there. That meat’ll smell something fierce if I don’t get”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Ink, Red, Dead

“Ugh.” I glanced at my own freezer, which is about the size of a shoebox. No bodies there! No red meat, either.  I can’t afford it, and my daughter has become a chick-a-terian. That was my word for “a person who only eats chicken and no other meat.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Ink, Red, Dead

“we really have to go back inside? It’s not our fault that we’re here. I wanted for us to turn around and go home. Really I did. I knew something was wrong.” Boy,”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Ink, Red, Dead

“places, and incidents are either the”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Ink, Red, Dead