Against-the-light-quote Quote by Dave Duncan

“Experience and disappointments had made us methodical.”

— Charles Baxter

“Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“Certainly,nothing proceeded according to desire.In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Good intentions had miscarried,…

— Joseph Heller

“As it so often does, an impulsive, daring suddenly - and too late - seemed seriously flawed in its conception and its inability to…

— Jean Ferris

“The desire to procreate, in some, is so strong that it creates a sort of tunnel vision in the afflicted. One can’t see beyond…

— Karen Fowler

“My first instinct, the product of a lifetime of insecurities, was to wonder what I had done wrong.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to be. It was a mere relief of need,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I had to become a patient. And I had to make up my mind quickly before the unthinkable happened. So I went under the…

— Allan Hamilton

“It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was…

— S.A. Tawks

“Divesting oneself so totally of the customary feelings of alienation and distrust that the subsequent acceptance was intellectually orgasmic.”

— Anne Rice

“The sugar coated negligence to the risks that could have changed our lives...the moments we ran away to avoid daring a chance and we…

— Upasana Banerjee

“The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll’s frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than…

— Charles Dickens