The Shaw Confessions Quotes

I kiss the inside of each knee and up, farther, the roughness of my cheek raising redness on her skin. ~ Michelle Hodkin

She hitches up onto the bed, her fraying denimed legs dangling from crossed knees. "You know I know you like to watch."
I reach her. Uncross those legs. "I do."
"So watch. ~ Michelle Hodkin

I wouldn't be surprised if this were a postcoital smoke, the object of his brief affection tucking himself back into his pants or her shirt in some corridor. ~ Michelle Hodkin

When someone is hiding a secret in a house, something changes in the air. Unspoken words, half finished smiles, eggshell steps - they distort reality, they muffle truth. ~ Michelle Hodkin

I'm getting high on the scent of her, when she says, "We're home."
If I'd been standing, her words would have brought me to my knees. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Mara takes my hand. "Noah Shaw, will you impregnate me immediately? ~ Michelle Hodkin

There's so much time, endless time, and I stand here in the centre of it with my dick in my hand, completely clueless. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Your strong jaw, your perfectly mussed-up hair, the lean but somehow still muscular body, the height - you're practically Captain America."
"Except English."
"Even worse! ~ Michelle Hodkin

He didn't look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noah
sarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah
cared. And that made him real. ~ Michelle Hodkin

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed. ~ George Bernard Shaw

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's. ~ George Bernard Shaw

ANARCHIST. I told you to begin by abolishing the State. Now we are all lost. ~ George Bernard Shaw

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. ~ George Bernard Shaw

What the point of crying over the things you don't have. Be patience and make the best of what you have. In TIME, great things will come. ~ Wazim Shaw

The object of our sojourns on earth, as apart from the gaining of experience, is but one. The loosing of ourselves from the coil of reincarnation, which, over and over again, brings us back to earth as on a coiled spring, until, having learned the last lesson of matter, leaped the last barrier, we are freed for ever from earth. ~ Shaw Desmond

Her toes were pure glass. Smooth, clear, shining glass. Glinting crescents of light edged each toenail and each crease between the joints of each digit. Seen through her toes, the silver spots on the bed sheet diffused into metallic vapours. ~ Ali Shaw

The worst sin ... is ... to be indifferent. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Jesus! We can't just sit here and twiddle our thumbs. Who's the brains of this outfit, anyway?"
"I think that was Shaw," Carl said wryly as his mind landed on an idea. "Before he went mad' that is. Now I suppose it's you, God help us. "
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Shawn asked in a hurt voice. "I've not gone mad!"
"Uh huh. What's the plan, Dixie?" Carl asked as he spared Shawn a glance before turning his gaze back on Remy. Remy blinked at him.
"You can't put him in charge," Shawn protested. "We'll be in the shit and he'll stop to get an ice cream, for fuck's sake!"
"What's wrong with ice cream?" Remy asked in an insulted voice.
"I think you missed the point of the comment," Thiago muttered as he sat down in the kitchen besid Nikolaus. ~ Abigail Roux

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve. ~ George Jean Nathan

He looked like a sexy ninja. Or a tiger ready to pounce on his prey. She just looked like she was sitting sideways on an invisible toilet. Curse the male species for making danger look so good! ~ Leia Shaw

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age? ~ Robert Gould Shaw

I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and drugs were my solution and that was my problem. And he was right. ~ Ryan Winfield

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing ~ George Bernard Shaw

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. ~ George Bernard Shaw

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I twisted my arm to curl him behind me and he unfolded there, the two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside. ~ George Bernard Shaw

He was beautiful. And he was smiling at me. ~ Michelle Hodkin

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. ~ George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Grisaille let go of Ruthven and flopped face downward onto the duvet, with a creak of springs.

'I am never leaving this bed again,' he said, muffled by the covers. 'I am amalgamated with this bed. This bed and I have achieved spiritual oneness. I am it and it is me. ~ Vivian Shaw

She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours. ~ George Bernard Shaw

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Nietzche ... he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Having him hold me like that was the only good thing out of it all, having him hold me and being right there with me. I just wished he could have held me harder and tighter and made the bad feelings, the dirty feelings, go away. But I don't think you can hold a person that tight, so tight that she's in your heart, way inside your skin, being cleaned and warmed by your blood. (11) ~ Susan Shaw

Shaw didn't answer, He didn't know anything, not for sure. But what he did have was an instict that almost never led him down the wrong path. And every inner warning signal he had was blaring away. ~ David Baldacci

The simplest things are sometimes more powerful than you can possibly imagine. ~ Steeven Shaw