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Cynthia Leitich Smith

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KELLY JONES Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr...
THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b...
THE CHILDREN Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to ...
JONAH LEHRER We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out i...
MAJEL BARRETT Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN I like it,” I said. “The material’s so heavy, though. I
may turn into a sweat monster.
CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH Each second neared our last.
We danced.
“Kieren . . .”
“Shhh . . .”
We d...
CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they...
MARY E. PEARSON Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?
MARY E. PEARSON It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I tried to help you turn the page by burning it, but you fucking kept sniffing the ashes!
AHMED MOSTAFA Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things
WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
CANDACE BUSHNELL Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
MARK STRAND In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philos...
KATE THOMPSON Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more.
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives.
SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca...
SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria]
SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.
SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey]
SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou...
SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.
SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave.
SEX AND THE CITY I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the lights fade to black.
SEX AND THE CITY Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one.
SEX AND THE CITY Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!"
SEX AND THE CITY F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me.
SEX AND THE CITY Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a...
SEX AND THE CITY I knew I wanted a handbag, but they were so pricey. I love Marc Jacobs.
SEX AND THE CITY All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian inves...
SEX AND THE CITY 'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire.
SEX AND THE CITY Sex and the City.
SEX AND THE CITY Suicide is not glamorous and should not be portrayed in a glamorous light.
SEX AND THE CITY When an opportunity comes, I don't question it. I grab it, drop its ring on the nightstand and swing...
SEX AND THE CITY Having money isn't the answer but it makes your life a hell of a lot nicer. If you have the choice t...
SEX AND THE CITY Despite the fact that there are over eight million people on the island of Manhattan, there are time...
SEX AND THE CITY When Charlotte really liked somebody she said their whole name. It helped her picture their future m...
SEX AND THE CITY

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CYNTHIA MILLER Here in the scripture is a woman who is downright no good, ... That's what people called her. She's ...
CYNTHIA PRATT Bishop Smith is trying to force his theology on to these six churches.
CYNTHIA BRUST In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to fr...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY Two years ago I found out about Tate Publishing. Actually, I called them about my children's stories...
CYNTHIA VELENO None of the tobacco prevention programs designed by tobacco companies have been effective at prevent...
CYNTHIA HALLETT The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military techn...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY So you're still in love with my brother."

-Wendy Avery
CYNTHIA HAND How did you do that?”
I shrug. “I click my heels three times and say, ‘There’s no plac...
CYNTHIA HAND It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
CYNTHIA HAND U.S. tech workers, ... are increasingly nervous about employers' use of temporary non-U.S. citizens ...
CYNTHIA MORGAN I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I f...
CYNTHIA VOIGT It's never been today before.
CYNTHIA VOIGT Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people li...
CYNTHIA PAYNE In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
CYNTHIA KENYON Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are ...
CYNTHIA KENYON It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if th...
CYNTHIA KENYON One of the criticisms of 'work first' is that it's really good at getting people jobs, but not as su...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY We want to maintain a customer-oriented focus to our programs. It reminds staff that we're in a serv...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY If I spent all of my time worrying about how I was going to live up to their standards, I don't thin...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY I am following two great directors.
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY It sounds like a very high squeak.
CYNTHIA PERRINE The girlfriend and boyfriend were arrested for corruption and defeating the ends of justice.
CYNTHIA KLEINHANS We found the bat, using its sonar 'beam,' looks ahead of where it flies, and that there is a relatio...
CYNTHIA MOSS Caffeine might make you feel energized.
CYNTHIA SASS Mr. Secretary, if the nursing home owners are arrested for negligent homicide, why shouldn't you als...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY I think this is a chance for a whole new beginning for the board.
CYNTHIA JOHNSON Basically the plan is to purchase land for resource protection, but also make it available for publi...
CYNTHIA JOHNSON It's safe to say that I'm against what they believe in.
CYNTHIA JOHNSON All the parties have come together.
CYNTHIA JOHNSON and either they are not replaced or they are kept inside the bassinet and, in some cases, actually t...
CYNTHIA JOHNSON It's possible that the university hoped some interloper or somebody they had no control over came an...
CYNTHIA JOHNSON Consumers can find out if there are any trans fats in an item by reading the ingredients. If shorten...
CYNTHIA SASS If the words 'shortening,' 'partially hydrogenated vegetable oil' or 'hydrogenated vegetable oil' ar...
CYNTHIA SASS