Bill was wrestling with his undercooked chicken. "Wow, " I remarked while examining my own plate. "I don't think I can eat this." "I know. It's gross, " he conceded. "But it's free, so I scarf down seconds each night." "As a dog returneth to his vomit, " I said, while making the sign of the cross in the air in front of me. "Amen, " he agreed with his mouth full, and toasted me with his 7Up can. Hope Jahren
I have something I need to tell you, " he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you,...
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Veronica Roth
I love you like a fat kid loves cake!
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Scott Adams
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
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Lemony Snicket
When God Created Mothers"When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?"...
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Erma Bombeck
And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.
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Cassandra Clare
More Quotes By Hope Jahren
I have accepted that I don't know all the things that I ought to know, but I do know things that I need to know.
People will tell you that you have to know math to be a scientist, or physics or chemistry. They're wrong.... What comes first is a question, and you're already there. It's not nearly as involved as people make it out to be.
You may have heard that America doesn't have enough scientists and is in danger of "falling behind" (whatever that means) because of it. Tell this to an academic scientist and watch her laugh. For the last thirty years, the amount of the U.S. annual budget...
Our world is falling apart quietly. Human civilization has reduced the plant, a four-million-year-old life form, into three things: food, medicine, and wood. In our relentless and ever-intensifying obsession with obtaining a higher volume, potency, and variety of these three things, we have devastated plant...
Once your baby tree is in the ground, check it daily, because the first three years are critical. Remember that you are your tree's only friend in a hostile world.
