Girl Quotes - Page 40

• Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp.

  David Sedaris

  White, Razors, Littles

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens.

  J. D. Salinger

  Children, Husband, Hair

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• There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.

  J. D. Salinger

  Long, Drunk, World

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Flower, Heart

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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• And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Falling In Love, Boys, Men

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.

  James M. Barrie

  Boys, Voice, Twenties

  "Peter Pan". Book by James M. Barrie, www.theguardian.com.

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• Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.

  Tori Amos

  Raisins, Solutions

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• And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.

  Gregory Maguire

  Needs, Sides, Cold

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• When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with my whole body. I would let death enter me as you had entered me. You had crept along my blood vessels through the wound, and the blood that circulates returns to the heart. You circulated me, you made me blush like a girl in the hoop of your hands. You were in my arteries and my lymph, you were the colour just under my skin, and if I cut myself, it was you I bled. Red Isolde, alive on my fingers, and always the force of blood pushing you back to my heart.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

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• Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Suicidal, Mean, Beer

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.

  Bill Watterson

  Purpose, Slugs, Imagine

  "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

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• Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

  James M. Barrie

  Women, House, Aghast

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.67, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

  Ian Fleming

  Hurt, Men, Two

  Ian Fleming (1965). “More gilt-edged Bonds”

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• And she was good to me: strong, fun, and fiercely loyal. And if I didn't have many other friends because of her-most girls were intimidated by her looks, or thought she was too pushy, or just flat-out feared for their boyfriends-it never bothered me. I never missed having a wide, thick circle of girlfriends: Rina was more than enough. We were comfortable with each other's flaws and weaknesses, so we stuck together and kept to ourselves.

  Sarah Dessen

  Strong, Fun, Circles

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.29, Penguin

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• The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sweet, Jail, Childhood

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

  Rob Sheffield

  Strong, Boys, Hands

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.30, Crown Archetype

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• Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.

  J. D. Salinger

  Memorable, Names, Finals

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• Scout, I´m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you´re gettin´ more like a girl every day!” With that, I had no option but to join them.

  Harper Lee

  Home, Lasts, Lord

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• He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.' 'What you got on it?' the girl said. 'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.' 'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Tattoo, Shirts, Said

  Flannery O'Connor (1965). “Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”, p.228, Macmillan

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• ...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!

  Gaston Leroux

  Eye, Voice, White

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “The Phantom of the Opera & The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Mystery Classics): The Ultimate Gothic Romance Mystery and One of the First Locked-Room Crime Mysteries”, p.10, e-artnow

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• You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

  James M. Barrie

  Growing Up, Sorry, Needs

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.131, 谷月社

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• Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you!

  Haruki Murakami

  I Like You, Crazy, Love You

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• I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Beautiful, Writing

  1944 Crazy Like a Fox,'Captain Future, BlockThat Kick'.

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• They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Father, Writing

  Oldiees Publishing, Charles Dickens (2014). “A Christmas Carol - NOVEL & MOVIE EDITION”, p.34, Oldiees Publishing

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• That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

  Douglas Adams

  Cute, Sarcastic, Profound

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.128, Pan Macmillan

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