#nine

Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the creatures of his own imagination with the females of actual life. ↗

— Walter Scott

#beauty

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#literary-criticism #literary-theory #narrative #nineteenth-century #novels

Janine Hathaway offered to be my guardian, " said Lissa suddenly. "Janine Hathaway?" Tatiana's eyebrows rose nearly to her hairline. "I'm sure she has other commitments. No, we've got much better choices." A better choice than Janine Hathaway? Not likely. Before Dimitri, my mother had been the gold standard by which I measured all badassedness. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#lissa-dragomir #rose-hathaway #tatiana #rose-hathaway

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots! ↗

— Michael Landon

#got #grandkids #i #kids #nine

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological. ↗

— Charles Bernheimer

#decadent #emile-zola #feminine #joris-kerl-huysmans #nature

My mom beat me up," I informed my reflection. It looked back sympathetically. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#janine-hathaway #rose-hathaway #vampire-acamdey #information

The Female Orgasm. The Big O. That elusive, reclusive Loch Ness of the labia. Does it prove the existence of God, or just His twisted sense of humor? ↗

— Kirstie Collins Brote

#first-love #love #new-adult #new-adult-lit #new-adult-romance

The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal. ↗

— Kirstie Collins Brote

#humor #new-adult #new-adult-fiction #nineties #love

Weight has always been one of those issues for me that won’t go away. I know, not terribly original, but what can I say? McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal in my hometown on my seventh birthday, for Christ’s sake. ↗

— Kirstie Collins Brote

#humor #mcdonalds #new-adult-fiction #new-adult-lit #nineties

Ninety percent of everything is crap. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#everything #ninety #percent