“
So what are you gonna say at my funeral, now that you've killed me? Here lies the body of the love of my life, whose heart I broke without a gun to my head. Here lies the mother of my children, both living and dead. Rest in peace, my true love, who I took for granted. Most bomb p*ssy who, because of me, sleep evaded. Her god listening. Her heaven will be a love without betrayal. Ashes to ashes, dust to side chicks.
”
”
Beyoncé Knowles
“
Get used to being spoiled. Not too much longer now. You know how much I love you because I’m handing over my balls momentarily to type the next song title, but fuck if it’s not true –Halo, Beyonce. Whew. Balls back in place now. And hey, there’s a lot of dressed up women down here, how will I know which one is you?
”
”
K. Bromberg (Crashed (Driven, #3))
“
Eeveryone says you can only fall inlove one, but thats not true because every time i see you i fall in love with you all over AGAIN ;)
”
”
Beyoncé Knowles (Crazy in Love)
“
no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.
”
”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gatsby Girls)
“
And her eyes, violet, like the sky before a storm. Ralph and Trish had brown eyes. Max's were hazel. But Ondine. No, Ondine's eyes had to be purple, wide set, and heavily lashed. Beyonce and Yoda's love child.
”
”
Tara Bray Smith (Betwixt)
“
But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music is about what the words say, literally, and nothing more. If done poorly, they can destroy the pleasant ambiguity that constitutes much of the reason we love music. That ambiguity allows listeners to psychologically tailor a song to suit their needs, sensibilities, and situations, but words can limit that, too. There are plenty of beautiful tracks that I can’t listen to because they’ve been “ruined” by bad words — my own and others. In Beyonce's song "Irreplaceable," she rhymes "minute" with "minute," and I cringe every time I hear it (partly because by that point I'm singing along). On my own song "Astronaut," I wrap up with the line "feel like I'm an astronaut," which seems like the dumbest metaphor for alienation ever. Ugh.
”
”
David Byrne (How Music Works)
“
He decides he wants both more or less. He’d like to hang with Beyonce in a nice way, get to know her by doing small pleasant things together like playing board games and going out for ice cream, or how about this, a three-week trial run in some tropical paradise where they can hang together in that nice way and possibly fall in love, and meanwhile fuck each other’s brains out in their spare time. He wants both, he wants the entire body-soul connect because anything less is just demeaning.
”
”
Ben Fountain (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk)
“
Honestly, I wouldn’t have been surprised if someone thought she was completely wasted. I guess that’s what Beyonce meant by ‘drunk in love’.
”
”
Penny Jessup (The Alpha's Son (The Alpha's Son #1))
“
HOLDING ONTO HOPE
MAY MAKE YOU TIRED BUT IF YOU LET GO OF HOPE, THE FALL CAN SPIRITUALLY KILL YOU!
HOLD ON
”
”
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier (Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One)
“
NEVER BE SO BUSY BEING THE LIGHT FOR OTHERS THAT YOU NEGLECT TO SHINE ON YOURSELF
”
”
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier (Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One)
“
A LIE IS LIKE A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD;
IT'S NOT SAFE TO LIVE IN
”
”
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier (Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One)
“
WHEN PEOPLE SHOW YOU THEIR TRUE COLORS,
DON'T GO COLOR BLIND
”
”
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier (Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One)
“
THE WISER I GET....
THE LESS I SPEAK,
THE MORE I THINK
AND THE MORE THOUGHTFUL MY WORDS BECOME"
~QWANA M. "BABYGIRL" REYNOLDS-FRASIER
”
”
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier (Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One)
“
HEROES AIN'T NOTHING BUT A VILLAIN WHO FOUND THEIR PURPOSE
”
”
Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier
“
WHEN YOU LOVE
MAKE EVERY MOMENT AN EXPERIENCE THE HEART CAN HOLD ONTO.
”
”
Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier
“
For my number-one favorite kill, I almost went with Johnny Depp being eaten alive and then regurgitated by his own bed in A Nightmare on Elm Street, but the winner, by a finger blade’s width, has to be the death of that feisty Tina (Amanda Wyss), who put up such a fight while I thrashed her about on the ceiling of her bedroom. Freddy loves a worthy adversary, especially if it’s a nubile teenaged girl.
A close second goes to my hearing-impaired victim Carlos (Ricky Dean Logan) in Nightmare 6. In these uber-politically-correct times, it’s refreshing to remember what an equal opportunity killer Freddy always was. Not only does he pump up the volume on the hearing aid from hell, but he also adds a nice Latino kid to his body count. Today they probably wouldn’t even let Freddy force-feed a fat kid junk food.
Dream death number three is found in a sequence from Nightmare 3. Freddy plays puppet master with victim Phillip (Bradley Gregg), converting his arm and leg tendons into marionette strings, then cutting them in a Freddy meets Verigo moment.
The kiss of death Profressor Freddy gives Sheila (Toy Newkirk) is great, but not as good as Al Pacino’s in The Godfather, so my fourth pick is Freddy turning Debbie (Brooke Theiss) into her worst nightmare, a cockroach, and crushing her in a Roach Motel. A classic Kafka/Krueger kill.
For my final fave, you will have to check out Freddy vs. Jason playing at a Hell’s Octoplex near you. Here’s a hint: the hockey-puck guy and I double team a member of Destiny’s Child. Yummy! Now where’s that Beyonce…
”
”
Robert Englund (Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams)
“
There is a new song on Top 40 radio right now that's so good I want to kill myself. I'm not sure why exceptionally good hip-hop singles make me want to commit suicide, but they often do. I don't know what the title of the song is, but it's that religious woman with the perfect stomach from Destiny's Child and Jay-Z doing a duet featuring a horn riff from the '70s that I've never heard before (but that sounds completely familiar), and the chorus is something along the lines of, "Your love is driving me crazy right now/ I'm kind of hoping you'll page me right now." It's also possible that Jay-Z compares himself to Golden State Warriors guard Nick Van Exel during the last verse, but I can't be positive.
ANYWAY, by the time you read this sentence, the song I am referring to will be ten thousand years old. You will have heard it approximately 15,000 times, and you might hate it, and I might hate it, too. But right now -- today -- I am living for this song. As far as I'm concerned, there is nothing that matters as much as hearing it on the radio; I am interested in nothing beyond Beyonce Knowles's voice. All I do is scan the FM dial for hours at a time, trying to find it.
”
”
Chuck Klosterman (Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story)
“
Are you high, Wes Bennett?”
"I'll answer that if you answer this: Were you playing Beyoncé on the piano last night?"
Her green eyes went wide, and her mouth dropped open. "You heard me?"
"The windows were open," I said, shrugging like it was the first time I'd ever heard her, "and I was having a smoke out back. So was it 'Halo'?"
"You smoke?" She was looking at me like I was a puzzle, like she couldn't figure me out.
"No. Was it?"
The crinkle in her forehead grew somehow. "Yes. So ... do you or don't you?"
"Like Beyonce? Fucking love her."
She rolled her eyes. "Why do I even bother trying to have a conversation with you?"
"Because you're fascinated and want to know more."
She snorted.
"Because you find me wildly attractive and need some insight into my soul?"
"Try again."
"Because you want to reconcile the data you've entered into your diary about me with the real-life, actual facts?"
"So you are high.
”
”
Lynn Painter (Better Than Before (Betting on You, #0.5; Better than the Movies, #0.5))
“
Arsonist's Lullabye by Hozier – Chapter three Elastic Heart by Sia – Chapter Nine Paralyzed by NF – Chapter Seventeen Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush – Chapter Twenty You Broke Me First by Tate McRae – Chapter Twenty-three Let Me Down by Jorja Smith and Stormzy – Chapter Twenty-four I Can’t Make You Love Me by Teddie Swims – Chapter Thirty Dancing with a Stranger by Sam Smith – Chapter Thirty-one Demons by Jacob Lee – Chapter Thirty-Three Halo by Beyonce – Chapter Thirty-six Play with
”
”
Bea Paige (Lyrical (Academy of Stardom, #2))
“
He decides he wants both more and less. He’d like to hang out with Beyonce in a nice way, get to know her by doing small pleasant things like going out for icecream, or how about this, a three-week trial run in some tropical paradise where they can hang together in that nice way and possibly fall in love, and meanwhile fuck each other’s brains out in their spare time. He wants both, he wants the entire body-soul connect because anything less is just demeaning. Has the war done this to him, he wonders, inspired by these deeper sensitivities and yearnings of his? Or is it just because he’s going on his twentieth year of life?
”
”
Ben Fountain (Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories)
“
He better call Becky with the good hair.
”
”
Beyoncé Knowles
“
NEVER LIVE A LIE
BECAUSE
"THEY"
WON'T ACCEPT YOUR TRUTH!
”
”
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier (Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One)
“
I AM GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF THE
BACKSTABBING
BECAUSE IT MADE ME
A STRAIGHT-SHOOTER!
”
”
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier (Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One)
“
Girl"
[Verse 1 Beyonce]
Take A Minute Girl Come Sit Down
And Tell Us What's Been Happening
In Your Face I Can See The Pain
Don't You Try To Convince Us That You're Happy (Yeah)
We've Seen This All Before
But He's Taking Advantage Of Your Passion
Because We've Come Too Far
For You To Feel Alone
You Don't Let Him Walk Over Your Heart
I'm Telling You
[Chorus]
Girl, I Can Tell You've Been Crying
And You Needing Somebody To Talk To
Girl, I Can Tell He's Been Lying
And Pretending That He's Faithful And He Loves You
Girl, You Don't Have To Be Hiding
Don't You Be Ashamed To Say He Hurt You
I'm Your Girl, You're My Girl, We're Your Girls
Don't You Know That We Love You?
[Verse 2 Kelly]
See What You All Don't Know About Him
Is I Can't Let Him Go Because He Needs Me
It Ain't Really Him It's Stress From His Job
And I Ain't Making It Easy
I Know You See Him Bugging On Me Sometimes
But I Know Deep Inside He Don't Mean It
It Gets Hard Sometimes
But I Need My Man
I Don't Think You all Understand
I'm Telling You
[Chorus x2]
[Bridge Michelle]
Girl, Take A Good Look At Yourself
He Got You Going Through Hell
We Ain't Never Seen You Down Like This
What You Mean You Don't Need Us To Help?
We Known Each Other Too Well
[Chorus]
[Beyonce:]
Girl I've been knowin' you since you were ten,
you cannot hide from your friends
[Chorus]
”
”
Destiny's Child
“
He wasn't from the best part--Houston--like me and Beyonce, but I didn't hold that against him either.
”
”
Michael Arceneaux (I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé)
“
THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT A LOVE THAT'S NOT NEW BUT NEVER GET'S OLD
”
”
Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier
“
Beyoncé said it best in "Haunted": "Perfection is so...mmm," and what she means is that the idea of perfection is so boring, so overdone and outdated.
”
”
Keah Brown (The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me)