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Your Lovely Quotes

Then you're trapped on your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
- Chuck Palahniuk

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
- Chuck Palahniuk

She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness.
I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
- Roald Dahl

Be you wise and never sad,
You will get your lovely lad.
Never serious be, nor true,
And your wish will come to you--
And if that makes you happy, kid,
You'll be the first it ever did.
- Dorothy Parker

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.
- Richard Matheson

And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or perhaps you gouged it with one of your pretty pink nails?
I was really beginning to wonder what his hang-up with pink was, but I didn't resent the sarcasm in his voice.
- Karen Marie Moning

...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly..
- Sappho

He came over in long pur-pose-ful strides, sat at the edge of her bed, and in a ten-der, pos-ses-sive ges-ture wiped the lip-stick off her lips. "What is that?" he asked.
"All the other girls wear it," Ta-tiana said, quickly wip-ing her mouth, breath-less at the sight of him. "In-clud-ing Dasha."
"Well, I don't want you to have any-thing on your lovely face," he said, stroking her cheeks. "God knows, you don't need it.
- Paullina Simons

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