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“But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.”
Source : Frank Bidart (2002). “Music Like Dirt”, p.14, Sarabande Books
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“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.”
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“As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care. "Woman?" "Hmmm?" "What's your name?" "Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse." "Thank you, Sookie." "Welcome, Eric.”
Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.789, Penguin
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“I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own.”
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“The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.”
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“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through poetry and philosophy and religion, through church and state, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, "This is and no mistake.”
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“A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.”
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“Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?”
Source : "Word Origin Comics: Being a Prude While Maintaining Your Pride" by Larry Paros, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015. 
