Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. - Mark Twain I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. - Mark Twain After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. - Mark Twain One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. - Mark Twain A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else. -Toyi Ward - Kamryn Adams I could see Eirene well enough to aim. SO I did. I aimed my weapon and thought of Bruno...

He wants me back." The closing punctuation of "obviously" hung in the air. The confidence in her! Anne would always have it: the certainty that there would be a trail of people following her, wanting her love and her beauty. Flannery saw that confidence, and through the polluted air now between them it no longer charmed her. Not tonight it didn't. Flannery was not inclined to be one of that number. - Sylvia Brownrigg What is it about her? he wondered hopelessly. What did she offer him that he couldn't find elsewhere? Why did he persist in seeking her out, thinking about her, wanting her, when she was exactly wrong for him in nearly every way? - Rebecca Coleman ... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe boring isn't the right word. What's the word I'm wanting here? Lonely. That's it. It was a little bit lonely. - Catherine Ryan Hyde

Everyone else could get through to my mother: all they had to do was dial a number and wait for her to pick up. If only, I thought, it was that easy for me. - Sarah Dessen The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone. - Roger Ebert A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity. - Florence King Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened. - Elizabeth Kostova

She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her. - Paulo Coelho ...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen. - Simone De Beauvoir There are only three ways to get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food. Easy, huh? If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up. - Haruki Murakami There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really g...

Jake became excruciatingly aware of her, there, right behind him. The small grunts and groans as she placed each foot carefully on the slick ground reverberated in his gut. He wanted to turn around and tell her to shut the hell up. She sounded as though she was having sex. Good sex. - Cherry Adair Oh, I forgot to tell you,' Cookie said 'Amber wants your dad to get a teriyaki machine so she can sing for all the lonely barflies.' 'I'm a good singer, mom.' Only a twelve-year-old could make the word mom sound blasphemous. I leaned into Cookie 'Does she know its not called--?' 'No.' she whispered. 'Are you gonna tell her?' 'No. Its much funnier this way. - Darynda Jones Amber wants your dad to get a teriyaki machine so she can sing for all the lonely barflies. Does she know it's not called?" "No," she whispered. "Are you gonna tell her?" "No. It's much funnier this way. - Darynda Jones I did not kno...