“The loveliest girl in Vienna
Was Alma, the smartest as well.
Once you picked her up on your antenna,
You'd never be free of her spell.”

“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

“Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight. -Adie, Wizard's First Rule”

Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist

“Quick, how do you pick up a cat?"
"Buy her a drink.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

“Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.”

Theodore Roszak (1933–2011) American social historian, social critic, writer

“How Adewen stuffed her braid in her mouth at that! Or she'd cover her mirth with her hands and shake till you'd think that the fit was upon her. She did the same too when she wept so you'd never be sure which she hid with her hands, her tears or her cackling. I think there were times she herself didn't know, nor does anyone know at times. Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.”

Frederick Buechner book Godric

“It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.”

John Vanbrugh The Relapse