"I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?"

-- Margaret Mahy

#Stories Quotes #Beast Quotes #Said Quotes

“I don't want to be one of those 40-something guys in L.A. still dating, still going out to clubs and chasing 21-year-olds. It's not a good look.”
“The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.”

Source : "Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen". Book by Mary Norris, April 6, 2015.
“The goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.”

Source : Patricia Monaghan (1999). “The Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations & Rituals”, p.4, Llewellyn Worldwide
“Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love; husbands and wives who can't communicate, children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on (and in real life, I might add) spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up.”
“So Nemerov showed us this picture, which is of Apollo flaying Marcius. You don't think of Apollo as being the sort of person who would skin someone alive. But the story behind it was that there was this guy who was a really great musician, and all the women loved him, and people started saying he was the best musician in the world, so Apollo got jealous and he challenged this guy to a musical dual. They would each play a song and the muses would judge who was the better musician.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.”

Source : Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.111, Penguin
“I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.”
“You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're from." "Oh. L-A-Y-T-O-N." "Ah-Lay-ton." That's what I said." "No you didn't. You just said, 'Lay'en.'" "So I did. But just go ahead and pronounce 'aluminum' for me, Mr. British Man. How are you going to defend that piece of insanity? Why don't you spell it and count syllables and see if your al-um-in-ium makes sense whatsoever?" He bowed his head. "TouchÃ©...”

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