Throwing Shade Quotes

“Someone had written “When will the devil come for you?” on the wooden stall door. The way my magic encounters had been going, this wasn’t so much an existential question as one of scheduling.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“The trouble with trying to touch the sky was that you eventually fell to earth, and gravity was a hard-assed bitch.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“Nanaimo bars.” I licked custard off my lip. “Invented in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. They have a coconut graham cracker base, a custard filling, and a layer of hard chocolate on top.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“Remember when you didn’t speak for an entire minute? A precious memory.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“He loomed over me like an inflatable tube man hawking discount cars, unleashing spittle and vitriol all over my desk as he informed me of a deadline I’d missed.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“And your choices are limited when you don’t think you have power. Thus limiting what you do and any further power you gain.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“whether it’s slinging sangria or running for Prime Minister, if you don’t feel like you have the power to do so.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“Murder hadn’t been on my list for the day, but I’d been extraordinarily productive this morning, so I was willing to pencil it in.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“In that lime-green mini and those crazy glasses, she was five feet eight inches of giving zero fucks.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“It’s a truth universally acknowledged that angry women get shit done.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“Oh,” I whispered, having never seen a werewolf change before. A stripe of skin appeared over the ridges of his spine and his claws morphed into fingers. It was almost like watching a sunrise on a foreign moon, an alien light cascading through darkness in little peeks, and then a more steady glow, illuminating a rugged, foreign landscape. Unfamiliar, but beautiful in its own way.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“Forty isn’t the new twenty, it’s a fast track to invisibility and irrelevancy.”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade

“It's a truth universally acknowledged that angry women get shit done”
― Deborah Wilde, Throwing Shade