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Gena Showalter

"He ignored me, thank God, saying to Kat, "Let go of Frosty's leash. You're choking the life out of him." Kat's eyes narrowed to tiny slits, a sure sign of her aggression. "He deserves to choke. He didn't keep little frosty in his pants this summer." the words snapped like a whip. "He did." Cole snapped back with unwavering confidence. "Not." "Did." "Not!" "Did," "Not, not, not!" she shouted with a stomp of her foot. "What are we five?" Cole said. "Six."

-- Gena Showalter

#Summer Quotes #Letting Go Quotes #Eye Quotes

“And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.”
“I am the world's worst good bridge player.”
“To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself. Â The equation was simple: Â If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk. Â 'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control. Â It was like songwriting; you just do it. Â You want a record, you pay the pressing plant. Â That's what it was all about.'”
“One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one.' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street.”
“When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.”
“I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.”
“Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.”
“The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.”

Source : Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.390, Random House

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