Figs Quote by Lev Grossman Download Open image ““Vile Father’s brown nipples, on the ends of his pendulous man-cans, were like dried figs.”” — Lev Grossman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brown Nipples Dried Figs Figs Nipples Ends Vile Father
“The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
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“From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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“The Ripe Fig Now that You live here in my chest, anywhere we sit is a mountaintop. And those other images, which have enchanted… — Rumi Copy Share Image
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“He whirled round and round in his rapid love; it pricked him on the breastbone like a needle. He wanted to be shut up… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
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“Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples. Cherry meat… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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“It's true," Eliot said. "Statistically, historically, and however else you want to look at it, you are almost never right. A monkey making life… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“God, I hope we don’t have to use that,” was all he said out loud. “Oh, come on, Quentina. We’re not looking for trouble.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
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I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the… — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom, the right… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image