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You never did master a leer."

- Katharine Murray, Death on the Family Tree


Patricia Sprinkle

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Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
They strung up a man
They say who murdered thr...
SUZANNE COLLINS LIII.
What is the holiness of conversation?

It is
to master death.
ANNE CARSON Well? Is it true? Did she?"
"Did she what?"
"You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit e...
KAMI GARCIA I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fa...
OGDEN NASH I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboard...
OGDEN NASH Private,' he said firmly. 'Family matter. Go have a drink.'
'Whose family?'
'A death in yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ¿Qué vas a leer?
Si tienes suerte, podrás vivir unos ochenta años.
De los cuales, si c...
BENITO TAIBO Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ?
Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget...
TOBA BETA The "News," the conferences that leer,
the creeping fog, the civil traps.
These are what for...
WILLIAM EMPSON Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
SUZANNE COLLINS I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says.

"What did you wish for?" Bailey asks.<...
ERIN MORGENSTERN I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is...
JOYCE KILMER I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.

still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Never say never
or it becomes a vice,
and there you have it,
you just did it twice...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest <...
JOYCE KILMER Never forget the nine most important words of any family-

I love you.
You are beauti...
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is a
panther poised in a cypress tree about ...
JOY HARJO The Sky?s The Limit.
FAMILY TREE Each of these three young people -- Lauren Bessette, Carolyn
Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kenne...
FAMILY TREE There are some good sitters out there, you just need to find them and keep them,
FAMILY TREE Every leaf on every tree
And every drop of water in the sea
Every grain of weathered sand JANN ARDEN Did you bring me a hamburger?
Did I-No,Myrnin,I didn't bring you a hamburger.Bizarre.He'd neve...
RACHEL CAINE Master of masters,
O maker of heroes,
Thunder the brave,
Irresistible message:
'...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Scars are souvenirs you never lose
The past is never far
Did you lose yourself somewhere ou...
JOHN RZEZNIK They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a le...
RUDYARD KIPLING TREE HOUSE
A tree house, a free house,
A secret you and me house,
A high up in the le...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN In between your failure-tree
And your triumph-tree,
The tree that is growing
Is known...
SRI CHINMOY So, Zed, isn’t this a killer outfit?”
“Certainly a killer, baby.”
“Good, because...
JOSS STIRLING Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but ...
THOMAS HARDY If Sam were a tree, you know what kind of tree he’d be?”
“What kind?”
“A pine. B...
T.J. KLUNE For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,
on the star tree,
pale with luminous
oce...
ROLF JACOBSEN Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I...
RAYMOND CARVER even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN A Pause followed my greeting.

Then, 'We're watching you,' whispered the voice on the oth...
JOSH LANYON Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail nev...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Rosencrantz: Do you think death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no...Death is......
TOM STOPPARD What if all your hard work never pays off?
What if I am the outsider to my friends and family?...
QUETZAL I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
JOYCE KILMER I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
JOYCE KILMER Smartass Disciple: Master, what will happen to the men right after their death ?
Master of Stup...
TOBA BETA What is it?”
“A prayer.”
“For a child?”
She nodded.
“For me?”
MITCH ALBOM Maybe he, like me,
is engaged in the kind of unspoken rebellion
you don't want to perform ...
STASIA WARD KEHOE Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we GEORGE ORWELL I was the man who never lied
Never lied until today
But I just couldn't break your heart MAROON 5 Some days I fancy him, others I want to flush hid head down the toilet.
(on Colin Murray)
EDITH BOWMAN Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling MARY OLIVER Someone will have to weed and spread
The young sprouts. Sprinkle them in the hour
When shado...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS String of love


Universe surrounds you
The Saints kneels to you
My freezin...
JHUNMAR SIMILA Dalinar Kholin was a connoisseur of death.
Even since his youth, the sight of dead men had been...
BRANDON SANDERSON FORKED BRANCHES


We grew up on the same street,
You and me.
We went to the...
SUZY KASSEM i used to think
i was broken

because
i never once

spent my
dayd...
AMANDA LOVELACE The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall?
The Once-ler: Uh, down?
The Lorax: A tree falls t...
DR. SEUSS I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
DOROTHY PARKER At least I don't look like a Christmas tree."
"You look like the star atop the tree.
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has g...
ROBERT FROST Well, if pirates are bad,
And vampires are worse,
Then I pray that as long as I be
Th...
JUSTIN SOMPER Gather my leaves,
Twist them into crowns
Let me be the king of your forest
Climb on m...
MICHELLE HODKIN You stole it from the master."
"Who stole it from me. What I did simply set the universe back i...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Why didn't you write all this time?
Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI We grew up on the same street,
You and me.
We went to the same schools,
Rode the same...
SUZY KASSEM you say
we were never
meant for this vowed life,
golden bands of only us, and death BETH MOREY The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The m...
LOUISE GLüCK Speed. O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I realized

June had never been
just a month

music...
never just a tr...
SANOBER KHAN Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.

~The Moon Ma...
CLARA DIANE THOMPSON It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?"

THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. TERRY PRATCHETT Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants a...
E.E. CUMMINGS Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little s...
W.B. YEATS Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenster...
TOM STOPPARD Come away, come away, Death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is still one of which you never speak.'

Marco Polo bowed his head.

'Veni...
ITALO CALVINO To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No

Come play with me;
Why should you run
Through the s...
W.B. YEATS If you fail in copying from a master you succeed in birthing an original art.

Kushal Podd...
KUSHAL PODDAR, POET ‘Cause, "Cake or death?" That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that.
"Cake or dea...
EDDIE IZZARD Toys tossed on the floor
Hand prints on the wall
Slamming of the door
And footsteps down t...
GLORIA BABB I fight back laughter.

“As you wish.”

"Did you really just Princess Bride...
ELLE KENNEDY Rock-a-bye Baby
In the tree top
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock.
When...
KRISTEN MCKEE And Death spoke to them —’”
“Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?�...
J.K. ROWLING I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think,...
DOROTHY PARKER ON THE DAY I DIE

On the day I die, when I'm being carried
toward the grave, don't we...
RUMI Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive s...
SUHEIR HAMMAD A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,
Birds without trees can never feel free.
LEENA AHMAD ALMASHAT Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!
When it ...
TSEM TULKU RINPOCHE make love
like you have no
secrets
like you’ve
never been
left
nev...
WARSAN SHIRE Aphrodite,” [Annabeth] said.
“Venus?” Hazel asked in amazement.
“Mom,” Piper s...
RICK RIORDAN In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live? JACK KORNFIELD Dear Samson,
I put your hair
in a jar
by the pear tree
near the well.
I bee...
CAROLE C. GREGORY All existence is in vain: unexplained and sterile. I’ll
end up alone with all my doubts that ...
E.C. LEMUS (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Kira: L, do you know
Gods of death
love apples?

L: Damn you, Kira...
TSUGUMI OHBA Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; ALEXANDER POPE It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death."

"Don't be so superior. You can ne...
SUZANNE COLLINS You never know!” Neith snapped. “The point is, I’ll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the...
RICK RIORDAN Death is a Dialogue between
The Spirit and the Dust.
“Dissolve” says Death,
The S...
EMILY DICKINSON I promise I'll never tell."

"Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If t...
JERI SMITH-READY Weave the circle, tightly sewn,
Let nothing evil or unknown
Enter within. Stay without
YASMINE GALENORN It is the privilege of the rich
To waste the time of the poor
To water with tears in secre...
STEVIE SMITH To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did. When God takes something fro...
JOSé N. HARRIS

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PATRICIA MARX I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo...
PATRICIA MARX Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ...
PATRICIA MARX Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
PATRICIA MARX For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
PATRICIA MARX I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se...
PATRICIA MARX I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
PATRICIA MARX Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
PATRICIA MARX The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
PATRICIA MARX It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv...
PATRICIA MARX Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ...
PATRICIA MARX Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl...
PATRICIA MARX 'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char...
PATRICIA MARX Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's ...
PATRICIA MARX One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels ...
PATRICIA MARX New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec...
PATRICIA MARX Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.
PATRICIA KAAS When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
PATRICIA KAAS People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
PATRICIA KAAS When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time i...
PATRICIA KAAS I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,...
PATRICIA KAAS Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
PATRICIA KAAS Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our ent...
PATRICIA IRELAND And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fac...
PATRICIA IRELAND We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would...
PATRICIA IRELAND We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ...
PATRICIA IRELAND We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets reall...
PATRICIA IRELAND They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney...
PATRICIA IRELAND Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would ...
PATRICIA IRELAND I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so m...
PATRICIA IRELAND Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
PATRICIA IRELAND My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. T...
PATRICIA IRELAND I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to lead...
PATRICIA IRELAND The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statis...
PATRICIA IRELAND Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of pri...
PATRICIA IRELAND I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence agai...
PATRICIA IRELAND Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight ...
PATRICIA IRELAND The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the sa...
PATRICIA IRELAND