Lavette Rita

“belly”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

“Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.'

'But should you wish yourself to be like him?'

'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“Dames. Sometimes all they got to do is let it out and a few buckets later there's no way you'd ever know.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye