Avon Lady Quotes

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I’m assuming those are Daimons. (Susan) No, they’re Avon ladies. (Ravyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dark Side of the Moon (Dark-Hunter, #9; Were-Hunter, #3))
Now that he was actually introducing Eleanor to his mom, he couldn’t help but see her the way his mom was going to. His mom was a beautician who sold Avon. She never left the house without touching up her mascara. When Patti Smith was on Saturday Night Live, his mom had gotten upset – "Why she want to look like man? It’s so sad." Eleanor, today, was wearing her sharkskin suit jacket and an old plaid cowboy shirt. She had more in common with his grandpa than his mom. And it wasn’t just the clothes. It was her. Eleanor wasn’t … nice. She was good. She was honorable. She was honest. She would definitely help an old lady across the street. But nobody – not even the old lady – would ever say, ‘Have you met that Eleanor Douglas? What a nice girl.’ Park’s mom liked nice. She loved nice. She liked smiling and small talk and eye contact … All things Eleanor sucked at. Also, his mom didn’t get sarcasm. And he was pretty sure it wasn’t a language thing. She just didn’t get it. She called David Letterman "the ugly, mean one on after Johnny.
Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park)
Ours is a society so immersed in the sea of video reactions that there are little old ladies out there who know Hoss Cartwright is more real than their next door neighbors. Everyone of value to them is an image. A totem. A phosphor-dot wraith whose hurts and triumphs are created from the magic of a scenarist’s need to make the next payment on his Porsche. (I recommend a book titled Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad, for a more complete, and horrifying analysis of this phenomenon. It’s an Avon paperback, so it shouldn’t trouble you too much to pick it up.) But because of this acceptance of the strangers who appear on the home screen, ours has become a society where shadow and reality intermix to the final elimination of any degree of rational selectivity on the part of those whose lives are manipulated: by the carnivores who flummox them, and the idols they choose to worship. I don’t know that there’s any answer to this. If we luck out and we get a John Kennedy or a Leonard Nimoy (who, strangely enough, tie in to one another by the common denominator of being humane), then we can’t call it a bad thing. But if we wind up with a public image that governs us as Ronald Reagan and Joe Pyne govern us, then we are in such deep trouble the mind turns to aluminum thinking of it.
Harlan Ellison (The Glass Teat: Essays)
So someone either Trojan Horsed or Avon Ladied
Ally Carter (Heist Society (Heist Society #1))
Who is it?" "Avon lady. Who the fuck do you think it is?
Aiden Pierce (Carnival Creeps (Sinner's Sideshow #2))
CHRISTMAS FUSS IN BARBADOS IN THE 70’S 1.BUY A BOTTLE OF FALERNUM 2.PUT DOWN CONGOLEUM IN THE SHEDROOF, AFTER SCRUBBING/VARNISHING THE FLOOR 3.WASH DOWN THE HOUSE AND CLEANED THE WINDOWS 4.BAKE GREAT CAKE AND PUDDING 5.GRATE COCONUTS TO MAKE SWEETBREAD 6.HUNG UP CURTAIN RODS/ NEW CURTAINS ON CHRISTMAS EVE 7.TRUST CREAM SACHETS IN FANCY BOTTLES/BIG WHEEL COLOGNE, SKIN SOFTENERS FROM AVON LADY 8.BUY ENGLISH APPLES AND A SHADDOCK FROM THE MARKET 9.WEED AROUND THE HOUSE 10. A CASE OF SOFT DRINKS-JU-C, FRUTEE, BIM, BBC GINGER, COKES 11.GO TO ELLIS QUARRY AND GET SOME MARL 12.PICK GREEN PEAS 13.STEEP SORREL 14.CHANGE THE CUSHION COVERS 15.SANDPAPER THE MAHOGANY CHAIRS 16.CLEAN THE CABINET AND WASHED ALL THE FINE CHINA 17.BUY HAM IN WHITE BURLAP BAG 18.DECANTER OF PORT WINE 19.PICK UP CLOTHES FROM THE NEEDLE WORKER 20.WASH AND PRESS HAIR 21.BUY PIECE OF FRESH PORK 2016
Charmaine J. Forde
Quelle maladie contagieuse avait bien pu attraper Speciosa ? J’ai insisté. Je lui répétais : « Speciosa est mon’ amie. Pourquoi est-ce que je ne pourrais pas la voir ? » Elle à fini par céder en disant que, de toute façon, bientôt, il m’arriverait ce qui est arrivé à Speciosa. Je suis entrée dans la maison. Speciosa était sur son lit. On avait ajouté une couche de paille fraîche. Quand Speciosa m’a vue, elle s’est mise à pleurer. Elle s’est soulevée. J’ai vu les herbes tout imprégnées de sang. « Tu vois, dit-elle, c’est mon sang. C’est comme ça que l’on devient femme. Tous les mois, je serai enfermée. Maman m’a dit que c’est comme ça pour les femmes. Elle prend la paille que j’ai souillée. Elle la brûle, en cachette, dans la huit. Elle enterre profondément les cendres. Elle a peur qu’on sorcier vienne la voler pour ses maléfices et que nos champs se dessèchent et que moi et mes sœurs soyons stériles à cause de ce premier sang qui pourrait mettre toute la famille en péril. On ne pourra plus s’amuser comme avant. À présent, je suis une femme, avec un pagne de femme, je me sens vraiment malheureuse. » Nous n’avons plus jamais joué ensemble.
Scholastique Mukasonga (Our Lady of the Nile)
Especially that walrus who looks like she got attacked by some whacked out Avon lady.
Thatcher C. Nalley (Letters From The Looney Bin (Book 1))
Maisie smelled like an Avon lady, and she was made up like the whore of Babylon.
Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park)