Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

I'm scared, Mom." ... "It's okay, honey. It's all right. That's the big secret, don't you know? Everyone is. All the time.

The Shining Girls

Holy fellatio! You are standing there licking him up with your eyes! Do you freaking hear the old seventies porn music playing in your head?

Saving Grace

Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can't vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even when it's broken.

The Shining Girls

(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.

The Shining Girls

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

My Life in France

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

Mr. Fox

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

My Life in France

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

My Life in France

The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.

My Best Friend's Girl

[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.

The Midnight Heir

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

The Midnight Heir

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

The Midnight Heir

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland

There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.

My Feudal Lord

..., living so close to Nature that everything you do is determined by her and each passing minute is felt rather than made use of.

The Map of Love

I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.

Minx

You don't have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one." -Henrietta Barrett, (Minx, Splendid Trilogy book #3)

Minx