MaryJanice Davidson
I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I'd be able to quit and try writing full time.Collection: Fitness
I used to be a model and a medical test subject, though never at the same time. And since we didn't have much money when I was a kid, I know how to fish and hunt for my supper. And I used to win awards in speech in high school, which comes in handy when I speak to 200 people at a writers' conference.Collection: Medical
I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.Collection: Jesus
Never, EVER give up. Not ever. Not EVER. Ever EVER!Collection: Giving Up
You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.Collection: Maturity
Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?Collection: Water
I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having a sarcasm stroke. "My God! You people! You're - you're so stupid you're making my eyeballs throb. They're throbbing, dammit!Collection: Sarcastic
Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus?Collection: Focus
Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.Collection: Want
Also,I loathe it when you refer to me as dude" Eric Sinclair to BetsyCollection: Eric
He said my name the way diabetics talked about hot fudge sundaes.Collection: Names
Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?" "Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth." "Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.Collection: Husband
I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago." "Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly. "Bring two!" then, more quietly,"You want a neck massage? A bedtime story? A bullet in the ear?Collection: Two
You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've sat in on therapy sessions with crazy. Frankly, I think women who don't have major emotional disorders are really very dull.Collection: Crazy
Never let your fiend off his leash unless there's lots of room to run (and no people around).Collection: Running
It's nice to see you again, Laura." "Thank you, Mrs. T-" "No, no, no. Please, my name is-" "Mud," I suggested. "Mud Barfbag Taylor. Call her Asshat for short." ~Laura, Antonia, BetsyCollection: Nice
Did vampirism encourage Stockholm syndrome?Collection: Syndromes
It's inappropriate for the queen of the dead to be afraid of ghosts.Collection: Queens
They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.Collection: Moving
Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.Collection: Book
Interesting shade #23 Lush Golden Blonde highlights. Heyyyyyy.... The woman in the awful suit was me! The woman in the cheap shoes was me!Collection: Shoes
I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.Collection: School
I—I adore you, too. Well, I don't know if I adore you. That's not really the word I'd use. But I—I—" I managed to wrench it out. God, this was hard! "I love you." "Of course you do," he said, totally unsurprised. "WHAT? I finally tell you my deepest, most personal feelings and you're all, 'Yeah, I already got that memo'? This, this is why you drive me nuts! This is why it's so hard to tell you things! I take it back.Collection: Love You
The vampire bible, bound in human skin, written in blood, and full of prophecies that were never wrong. Trouble was, if you read the thing too long, it drove you nuts. Not "I'm having a bad day and feel bitchy" nuts or PMS nuts. "I think I'll commit felony assault on my friends and rape my boyfriend" nuts.Collection: Bad Day
She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned.Collection: Children
Zombieland reference," Jon said, nodding. "How do you know that? That's a thousand-year-old reference!" I looked at laura. "I can't think of a single movie from a thousand years ago." "Uh...Betsy..." "Don't say it." You know how you don't know how stupid something is until you hear yourself say it? That happened to me a lot.Collection: Stupid
I'm in a Road Runner cartoon, Sinclair. And I'm the coyote.Collection: Cartoon
I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write a book or novella for them. Things change. A rejection slip today might mean a frantic call to your agent in six months.Collection: Book
We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.Collection: Soul
I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.Collection: Giving Up
... friends are such a mixed blessing.Collection: Blessing
You'll pay," she said stonily. "You won't be like this by this time tomorrow." "Bored and pissed off? God, I hope not.Collection: Bored
All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting until you get an offer. Then you can be crazy, with a paycheck.Collection: Crazy
He snarled at me. "This isn't over yet, Betsy." "Excellent," I said. "I would also have accepted 'You haven't seen the last of me' and 'You'll regret this'.Collection: Regret
I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever.Collection: Taken
My my Laura Goodman. I must say that is a charming name for a charming young lady." "Eric's old." I broke in. "Really really old." "Er— really?" Laura asked. "Gosh you don't look even out of your thirties." "Tons of face-lifts. He's a surgical addict. I'm trying to get him help." I added defensively when they both gave me strange looks.Collection: Names
Elizabeth Anne Taylor April 25, 1974 - April 25, 2004 Our Sweetheart, Only restingCollection: April
There's more than one way for a girl to Google a cat.Collection: Girl
I zoomed in on the shoe department like a blonde homing pigeon. Shoes, shoes everywhere! Ah, sweet shoes. I truly think you can take the measure of a civilization by looking at its footwear.Collection: Sweet
It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd start the whole process all over again. I think I just liked buying new notebooks.Collection: Notebook
It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nervesCollection: Scary
Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any trouble. Goodness, that would just ruin my whole evening." I strolled and hummed, trying to project Innocent Victim.Collection: Running
Kissing Sinclair was like making out with a sexy timber wolf— he was licking my fangs and nipping me lightly and growling under his breath and it was...oh, it was really something.Collection: Sexy
Majesty, I beg your forgiveness for the idignity you suffered and offer you the head of our enemy as—" "Put that thing down," I said impatiently. "I can't talk to you when you're shaking his head like a damned maraca.Collection: Enemy
I'm rubber and you're glue," I told Satan, " and everything that bounces of me sticks to you.Collection: Glue
Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy.Collection: Real
I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no offense, shorty - you don't scare me.Collection: Home
Wow, girlfriend, you're incompatible with life! And here I thought I was just incompatible with pink.Collection: Girlfriend
Yeah, well, it's been a super fun week. And by 'super fun' I mean 'horrible and endless'.Collection: Fun