Backtalk Quotes

“Woman, you got a mouth on you."

"It's not 1955 any longer. Women swear as much as men."

"I miss women who talk about women things."

"You're changing the subject. Keep it up and I'll talk about my period. That's a woman thing.”
― Edie Ramer, Dead People

“You Kowalskis have always gotten a little carried away.”

This wasn’t Mitch’s first traffic stop. He knew it was best to be polite to the cop, who was just doing his job, and neither offer lame excuses nor get belligerent. But Durgin was too much. “We got carried away sometimes when we were young and stupid. Most kids do. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit here and take shit from you because you lost control of the new cruiser and rolled it into a ball. I’m not a kid anymore and I’m not going to be spoken to like one. Write me the damn ticket and get on with your life.”
― shannon stacey, All He Ever Needed

“There's still time. The first episode hasn't aired yet. You can ask for any other chef and they'll give you what you want. I don't think I can do this."
"The habit of walking away from things must be a hard one to break," he said, when the last thing he wanted to think about right now was that particular moment from their past.
She's just a girl I dated in high school.
Her long, incredibly delicate fingers squeezed her temples, her jaw clenched, every inch of her screamed how badly she did not want to be doing this with him.
If she wanted to walk away, she was going to have to be the one to do it. Again. "As for how I behaved with DJ," he said when the silence had stretched out long enough that he knew she wasn't going to respond, "it was an honest mistake." None of this was about DJ.
"Dropping a knife from shock, that's an honest mistake," she said, the new shell she'd grown melting like ice around pine needles after a winter storm. "Being rude to someone because you're angry with someone else? That's just being spoiled and self-centered.”
― Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion

“You told me you wanted to do this, and now you're turning my work into some sort of mockery?"
"Actually, you're the one who told me I'd want to do this. You're the one who told me I could make this what I wanted to make it, told me to let my anger out so I'd feel better. Now you want to tell me that my feelings are a mockery?”
― Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion

“This isn't a joke, Emma. You told me you wanted to do this, and now you're turning my work into some sort of mockery?"
"Actually, you're the one who told me I'd want to do this. You're the one who told me I could make this what I wanted to make it, told me to let my anger out so I'd feel better. Now you want to tell me that my feelings are a mockery?”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“I think you've forgotten what it means to be happy."
Ashna sank down to her knees next to the tub. A stray hair marred the spotless floor. She picked it up and threw it in the garbage.
"Are you going to say anything at all?"
Ashna wanted to, but her words had a way of hiding away when they sensed Shobi's presence.
"Ashna?" She couldn't tell if Shobi was reprimanding her or if that was concern in her voice. Not that she had any experience with recognizing concern in Shobi's voice.
"You're wrong, Mom. You can only forget something you knew.”
― Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion

“You have no idea how badly I wish you could see my life. Understand it. See me."
"Across the thousands of miles you've always put between us?”
― Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion

“Oh, just fuck off, Mari," Leo said, his voice a frozen knife in my chest.
The dismissiveness, the contempt. It hurt. My throat contracted, my sinuses suddenly felt hot and tight. But I couldn't let him win. The last word had to be mine. "Sounds fun," I said cheerfully, my voice only shaking a little. "Maybe later.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In