Four Letter Word Quotes

Quotes tagged as "four-letter-word" Showing 1-3 of 3
Kendare Blake
“And it's beyond my energy to explain why I don't think that four-letter word that everyone's so obsessed over and that gets everyone into so much trouble and pretty much makes everyone behave like an ass can live in a place like this. Somewhere during dry cleaning, details, and missed meals, it flakes away and what you're left with is married people with a tolerable affinity for each other. That little four-letter word can exist only in poetry, or movies of 2 to 3 hours in length. Maybe in a mini-series.

This place of dull details and irksome obligations is a home only to other four-letter words, which are used much more frequently.”
Kendare Blake, Sleepwalk Society

Jeanette Winterson
“And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating a lion, it having withered well, you less so, as we stand fabulously old, in a city that understands what spirit it takes to be old, to be beautiful, to be much looked at, to be itself, to be never quite caught, to have a past, to be content, to have seen much, to have remained, to have continued…”
Jeanette Winterson

B.S. Murthy
“The irony of abuse is in the abuse of men, it's the women that get abused.”
B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel