“Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.”
― A Red Herring Without Mustard
― A Red Herring Without Mustard
“If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All Poison, and come to "Cyanide," I am going to put under "Uses" the phrase "Particularly efficacious in the cure of those who call one 'Dearie.”
― The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
― The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
“It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.”
― The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
― The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
“Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie,
Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?”
― The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?”
― The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
“Seen from the air, the male mind must look rather like the canals of Europe, with ideas being towed along well-worn towpaths by heavy-footed dray horses. There is never any doubt that they will, despite wind and weather, reach their destinations by following a simple series of connected lines.
But the female mind, even in my limited experience, seems more of a vast and teeming swamp, but a swamp that knows in an instant whenever a stranger--even miles away--has so much as dipped a single toe into her waters. People who talk about this phenomenon, most of whom know nothing whatsoever about it, call it "woman's intuition.”
― The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
But the female mind, even in my limited experience, seems more of a vast and teeming swamp, but a swamp that knows in an instant whenever a stranger--even miles away--has so much as dipped a single toe into her waters. People who talk about this phenomenon, most of whom know nothing whatsoever about it, call it "woman's intuition.”
― The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
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