"There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting,……" — Jesmyn Ward
"There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private"
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16 Quotes by Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward has 16 quotes on this site.
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Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts…
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Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to…
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By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic…
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I wanted to be my own heroine.
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She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered…
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I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled…
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I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the…
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That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
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While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there…
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I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose…
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I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage…
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My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand…
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More Blushing Quotes
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one of 85 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A letter does not blush.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
— Charles Darwin
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing…
— William C. Bryant
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There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush…
— John Keats
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you…
— Alexander Pope
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?
— Gracie Allen
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I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have…
— Eva Green
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