Coming-of-age-love-story Quote by Anne Lovett

“You needed the bitter edges of life to make it real, to let you taste what was still sweet.”

— Megan Lindholm

“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”

— Jim Thompson

“I ran straight into the wooden fence at the foot of the field. I was lucky that it had been a rail fence, rather…

— Helen Keeble

“At the gates, prickly rolls of barbed wire sagged with middle-aged disappointment.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Life is not sugar coated.”

— Edna Stewart

“So close, I thought. A shorter fence, a fatter dog, and everything would be different.”

— Sarah Dessen

“Every day now, I found a chance to slip outside and leave food under the fence. I knew it was a drop in the…

— Irene Gut Opdyke

“If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.”

— Stephen King

“I the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.”

— Stephen King

“She give me honey to make my voice sweet, but there never were a sweetness in me. I prefer a taste of rot.”

— Susann Cokal

“That sounded sweet enough to almost be intelligent, but it was chauvinistic as hell.”

— Missy Lyons

“It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next…

— Jennifer Egan