"The white-haired wonder leading what had to, by now, be a blocks-long parade must've finally turned on her hearing aid. Because she finally pulled into the United Methodist Church parking lot, praise God, leaving the rest of us free to party until some other octogenarian found it necessary to take to the streets after dark. In Ohio, old folks know better than to drive at night. Yet another reason Cleveland rocks."

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Source : Jennifer Rardin (2012). “An Evening for Vayl and Jaz”, p.27, Hachette UK

Jennifer Rardin

#Block Quotes #Party Quotes #Dark Quotes

“I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.”
“For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.”

Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.”

Source : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.263, Macmillan
“Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical, has blossomed so profusely among us during the last decade, that he should be an expert indeed who ventures to add thereto.”
“A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.”
“Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.”
“Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.”
“Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.”

Source : Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.37, Anchor

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