Contingency Quote by P. S. Martinez

“She had turned away and was watching a duck out on the lake. It was tucking into weeds, a thing I've never been able…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth. These past…

— Kien Nguyen

“...a woman of quite bovine stupidity and potato-like contours...”

— Frederick Forsyth

“She saw a roach pass by her foot, and she instantly lifted it up and brought it down on the roach. She didn’t want…

— Reyna Grande

“People, she was discovering, were like cockroaches: If you allowed one in, more were sure to follow.”

— Stacia Kane

“The world had gone too quiet and the possibility that she and Lou were the only ones left alive tickled at her brain like…

— Gina Ranalli

“On the first day of the end of the world, Michelle got out of bed, walked into the kitchen, and smacked some roaches”

— Michelle Tea

“She felt ridiculous standing in the middle of the woods hugging a roll of toilet paper to her chest. And oh so vulnerable, too.…

— Diane Alberts

“In this room hung with the trophies of culture, her story sounded melodramatic and rough. She felt like a squaw explaining how you tanned…

— Wallace Stegner

“She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and…

— Terry Pratchett

“She wasn't soft, but she never saw the sense of a living thing dying such a cruel death just for some woman's vanity. Still,…

— Sandra Dallas