"The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence."

-- Nathaniel Parker Willis

#Rose Quotes #Lilies Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak.”

Source : Teresa Mummert (2014). “Pretty Little Things”, p.60, Teresa Mummert
“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.”
“I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.”
“It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.”

Source : Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.209, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.”
“We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”

Source : Song: Boogie Street, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001
“For me, almost always, the answer was cake.”

Source : Diana Abu-Jaber (2007). “The Language of Baklava”, p.186, Anchor
“The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.”

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