#bait

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bait #covers #hook #hope #such

Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?" She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax." My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine. "Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#baiting #bickering #crazy #family-relationship #granddaughter

I will replace the money you stole from me in a week, but! for all eternity, you, my friend, will ALWAYS be a thief! ↗

— Jason P. Goodman

#overcharge #pricefix #switch #money

Happy Birthday." Adrian came to a sudden halt. The words were soft and small, spoken tentatively, but easily discerned by vampire ears. Slowly, he turned around and found Jill Mastrano standing shyly before him. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#jailbait #jill-mastrano #adrian-ivashkov

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait! ↗

— Frank Gorshin

#finer #shorter #wait

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#bait #doing #i #i think #part

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion. ↗

— Larry Norman

#bait #candy #certain #conversion #deep

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. ↗

— Socrates

#beauty #delight #enlarge #his #kind

If I have to dangle myself in the water like a freaking minnow, I will. Those people don't deserve this type of treatment. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE) ↗

— Rebecca Gober

#exposing-ele #hero #leadership #minnow #selfless

If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there’d be a rash of kindergarten suicides. ↗

— P.J. Tracy

#live-bait #p-j-tracy #life