Baths Quotes - Page 14

• I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laugh. Getting out of the bath and seeing, out of the corner of my eye, down the side of a leg: baby-doll. Pulling on a sweater, and in a flash of my wrist: harmful. Why these words?

  Gillian Flynn

  Baby, Eye, Writing

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.63, Broadway Books

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• Well, thanks. It was nice of you to give me anything." The tension between them seemed to press down on her like humid air. "Better than a bath in spaghetti any day." He said darkly, "If you share that little bit of personal information with anyone, I may have to kill you." "Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside the dryer with the clothes," Clary said. "The difference is, she didn't let me." "Probably because going around and around inside a dryer can be fatal," Jace pointed out, "whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Nice, Differences

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• Bath toys are reserved only for the oldest, more lethal vampires.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Vampire, Toys, Reserved

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• It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

  Terry Pratchett

  Water, Sound, Tin

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.188, Random House

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• First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Vampire, Parks, Firsts

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• You took a bath without me?" I smiled to myself at the accusation in his voice.

  Katie MacAlister

  Voice, Accusation

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• There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won't hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Baby, Teacher, College

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• I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.

  Daniel Handler

  Hair, Smell, People

  "The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), April 15, 2000.

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• You have the Super Soaker filled with holy water?” “Yeah. I sucked it out of the church. You know that bird-bath thing they got right up front?” “The baptismal font?” “That’s it. They got it filled with holy water, free for the taking.” “Brilliant,” I said to Lula. She tapped her head with her finger. “No grass growin’ here.

  Janet Evanovich

  Water, Bird, Church

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Smokin' Seventeen”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dog, Lying

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• When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tup and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank into sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Flower, Sleep

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.110, Faber & Faber

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• Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or Food or Fancy Dress, / But I shall take a Bath.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Song, Heart, Sleep

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• Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

  Jane Austen

  Cousin, Hair, Diversity

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1085, Wordsworth Editions

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• My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mind, Inability, Nuisance

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

  Jasper Fforde

  Time, Tea, Firsts

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• King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Kings, Bored, Three

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• Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Lying, Shunning, Tubs

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• Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Healing, Sleep, Oblivion

  J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA

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• Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?" "Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti." -Clary & Jace, pg.310-

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Kind, Jace

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• So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob, and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric field, known to non-engineers as "the soul." So I hit him. What would you do?

  Warren Ellis

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

  "Transmetropolitan. God Riding Shotgun (issue #6)". Comic book by Warren Ellis,

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• But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk.

  Gena Showalter

  Party, Blood, Done

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.55, HQN Books

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• The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pests, Bores, Intercourse

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.175, City Lights Books

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• Harder is Better! Post work out! Foot in the Ice Bath. A girl has to make a living! #hardcandytoronto. #addictedtosweat

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Ice, Feet

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• The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Book, Oil, Tvs

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• The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota Johnson, who plays the virgin English-literature major Anastasia Steele, and Jamie Dornan, who plays Christian Grey, the wildly rich and sexually particular business titan who wants Miss Steele in his playroom, are exceedingly attractive actors with enviably supple bodies well suited to nakedness. And really, under the circumstances, movable parts matter more than acting skills.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Christian, Book, Play

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