"A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!"

-- J. G. Farrell

#Daughter Quotes #Cat Quotes #Dark Quotes

“In those days contests were extremely rough and frequently cost the participants their lives. Thus, whenever I sallied forth to take part in any of those affairs, I invariably bade farewell to my parents, since I had no assurance that I should ever return alive.”
“Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.”
“Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy”
“I need the sun, sand and ocean to rejuvenate my spirit, the food to enliven my body and all of the familiar places, friends and family to revitalize my soul. I go for replenishment. For a kind of love that I truly know. For a place of belonging, always.”
“When I was a kid, I felt like I could do anything and play anything. I just felt super-confident. And then, once I started to play music professionally, maybe it's from being from a small town, but you grow up and then you're suddenly a big fish in a small pond, and I realized that there were a billion other drummers out there that could play as good as you or better, and everybody wants that job.”
“Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.”
“Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?”
“She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.”

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