February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.

“April is the cruelest month.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.”

— Jane Sunday

“ I’m hungry as a church mouse, Hope. Do you have anything to eat? Hope looked down at His Whiskery Lordship swishing his black…

— Lyn Key

“Petey Samson gave the ladies an over-the-shoulder glance. He realized no doggie treat was forthcoming, even from Isabel who was usually the soft mark…

— Ed Lynskey

“Sheriff Fox was running his fingers through his thin hair. In a few short years, he’d look bald as a peeled apple. The Snoop…

— Ed Lynskey

“Quote is taken from Chapter 1: A decade ago when Isabel’s husband Max had died, they’d moved in together and merged their possessions. Neither…

— Ed Lynskey

October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“In April, which Hannah now heartily agreed was the cruelest month, mixing memory with desire, she walked past the burgeoning lilies that lined the…

— Laura L. Sullivan

April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect…

— Barbara Kingsolver

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

— Anonymous

“But you raised a ruckus about and threatened to perform a Julius Caesarian on anybody on anybody who calls April the cruelest month- I…

— APORVAKALA

“If T. S. Eliot had stayed in St Louis, he would never have held that April was the cruelest month. Well, unless he was…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept…

— Anonymous

It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the…

— Anna Godbersen

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

— Jack Welch