Girls
Quotes - I feel I am the perfect lover
“This
one had come to me, though, picked me out. I thought she was trouble from the
start. I don't read minds and I can't see the future, but call it instinct or
experience, something was prickling my spine.
You
could call it something else, if you wanted: adolescence, hormones, lust. Being
seventeen. That doesn't go away, however long you practice.
"Hullo,"
I said politely, warily.
She
was long and slim and very neatly put together, dark hair tumbling over denim,
old worn black jacket and jeans that somehow hadn't faded into grey. They
probably didn't dare. Right from the start I saw a focus in her, a
determination that must go all the way through, like the writing in a stick of
Brighton rock. In another world, another lifetime, I thought she'd have
raven-feathers in her hair, a bear's tooth on a thong about her. She'd be the
village shaman, talking to spirits, and even the headman would be afraid of
her, a little...
Seventeen,
I told you. She was devastating to me, she was sitting at my table, and I
couldn't afford her. Not for a minute.
If
I'd stood up, if I'd left, if I'd run away...
Nah.
She would just have come after me. Faster, fitter, and on longer legs. What
chance did I ever have?”
―
Ben Macallan, Desdaemona
“there
wasn't use trying to talk with a girl just because of something she'd said to
me in a dream”
―
Ross Raisin, God's Own Country
“I
overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when
she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.”
―
Holly Hood, Ink
“I
feel I am the perfect lover, because I love equally all beautiful girls.”
―
M.F. Moonzajer
“So
Father Ring went off in the lofty mood of a man who has defended a principle at
a great sacrifice to himself, but that very night he began to brood and he
continued to brood till that sickly looking voluptuary of a ten-shilling note
took on all the radiance and charm of a virgin of seventeen.”
―
Frank O'Connor, Collected Stories
“Oh
my Greek goddess, I love it!”
―
Becky Albertalli
“I
preferred to read about ancient times, distant lands. Knowledge of anything
current or faddish made me feel I was just a victim of isolation. If I avoided
all that on purpose I could believe I was in control.”
―
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
“Whenever
a new doll arrived from Dolls of All Nations, she'd hit the porch with wires
around her wrists, ankles, and neck. I must have freed more than twenty, their
eyes opening slowly once they got back on their feet.”
―
Angela Chaidez Vincent, Arena Glow
“Patri
wondered if she wasn't herself (and this was the secret of all her thought) a
woman in disguise, brilliantly disguised.. as a woman.”
―
César Aira, Ghosts
“Girls
are born with all of the eggs they will ever make. Tiny future fighters are
nested inside the infant bodies of baby girls. Men are dead ends, but girls are
infinite backwards and forwards.”
―
Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
“Young
girls are the ghosts of society, it seems.”
―
Hayley Hoskins, The Whisperling
“And
then something truly miraculous happened to her in life.
Two
hands planted themselves hard and strong on her hips. She turned and saw a
girl. A bright and shining, shooting star of a girl.”
―
Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over
“Girls,
as you may have noticed, are dangerous.”
―
Anne McCaffrey, Sky Dragons
“...manners
are not so much a set of rules as they are a language you use to tell other
people what they can expect from you.
...
Are
you trustworthy?
Do
you think only of yourself?
Would
you make a good friend or a poor one?”
―
Nancy Holyoke, A Smart Girl's Guide to Manners
“There
is time on this greener earth for girls to ripen into themselves; what they'll
do with that is beyond anyone's knowing, seeing as they are not limited to
anger versus dinner, seriousness versus sentiment, survival versus all life's
rampancy. They can choose.”
― C
Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
“For
what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men.”
―
Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
“I
don’t like clever girls," I said. "And I don't like tall blonde
girls. I like small girls with hair like autumn leaves.”
―
Agatha Christie, Endless Night
“The
sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous.”
―
Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning
“Yes,
despite his shortcomings she envied young Roger with his thick, clumping boots,
his cropped hair and his Etons; envied his school and his masculine companions
of whom he would speak grandly as: 'all the other fellows!'; envied his right
to climb trees and play cricket and football—his right to be perfectly natural;
above all she envied his splendid conviction that being a boy constituted a
privilege in life; she could well understand that conviction, but this only
increased her envy.”
―
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
“It's
okay, she said, taking his fingers out of her nose. You can be ugly. You're a
boy. He let out a cackle, as if agreeing, then the sick feeling returned to
her.
Girl
things were beautiful. Beauty was girl things.”
―
Lauren Groff, Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories
“Gossip
dies when it hits the ears of a wise man.”
―
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
“The
secret of celebrity power and the most beautiful of girls, and how to seduce
them? Well, if you look at a celebrity’s page and pics one hundred times a day,
you will kneel to her fake and often satanic power, and she will feed off your
worship. But if you do not, and that celebrity or extremely beautiful girl
looks at your page, even a couple of times, the power is reversed. So, if you
want to seduce a celebrity, and she shows you even glancing curiosity, at that
point you can prise her off the rock like a limpet, and then she is lost,
flailing around in the scary ocean, which most of us know as the real world,
until you rescue her. Celebrities are the most insecure of people, after all,
disattached, and scared of the real world.”
―
Jack Freestone
“girls
sitting together and apart from us, reared into self-conscious anxiety in the
presence of men”
―
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Memory of Departure
“Girls
and women are being used as political pawns.”
―
Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions
& Our Future
