"Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life."

-- Joanne Harris

#Queens Quotes #Cat Quotes #Night Quotes

“When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.”
“There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less than perfect. And try to understand, ourselves, when they're not all we'd like them to be.”

Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub
“I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.”

Source : Following Cerebus magazine, No. 2, 2004.
“Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind.”
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”
“The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.51
“The appetite grows for what it feeds on.”

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