“
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
”
”
Pam Brown
“
Fangtasia, where all your bloody dreams come true,' said a bored female voice.
'Pam. Listen.'
'The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.'
'Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.'
'Fuck a zombie!
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10))
“
Oh come on Pam, they're funny. They're like humans but miniature...tea cup humans!
”
”
Charlaine Harris
“
Oh, good grief! I’ve never had a man pick me up before and not grunt like he’s dying. I’m in heaven. Marry me, Ash, please! (Pam)
I would say yes, but I come with more baggage than even Samsonite can cover. (Acheron)
”
”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron (Dark-Hunter, #14))
“
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
”
”
Pam Brown
“
We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising)
“
Pam: "Claude, the mouthwateringly beautiful asshole?
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10))
“
I apologize for Pam. I accidentally hit her in the head with a baseball when we were in fifth grade and knocked her out cold. She’s never been right since. (Tory)
”
”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron (Dark-Hunter, #14))
“
You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4))
“
Issues are like assholes, we've all got one," Pam snipped.
”
”
Tonya Hurley (Ghostgirl (Ghostgirl, #1))
“
Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.
”
”
Enid Blyton (House at the Corner (Mystery & Adventure))
“
You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2))
“
Look at her. She looks so harmless and meek, but inside she’s a lion. Tory is an adrenaline junkie the likes of which you’ve probably never seen…everything from deep-sea diving to base jumping. Hell, she even jumps out of perfectly good airplanes for fun. (Pam)
”
”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron (Dark-Hunter, #14))
“
Can I help you up?”
"No,” she said bitterly. “I prefer to drag myself along the hardwood floor.”
"Bitch,” I said, squatting to help her up.
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10))
“
You showed me beauty in survival. I’ll show you strength in healing
”
”
Pam Godwin (Beneath the Burn)
“
Sookie: Is Eric around?"
Pam: "He is enthralling the vermin,
”
”
Charlaine Harris
“
You never have to get over it you just have to get on with it.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Paint the Wind)
“
There is no rose without thorns.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan
“
You have the heart one expects to see at the centre of a fire, bending and twisting like steel, but never breaking. If something happens to mine, yours would be stubborn enough to beat for both of us.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Beneath the Burn)
“
Se não protegermos e cuidarmos umas das outras, não serão os homens que o farão por nós.
”
”
Pamela Gonçalves (Boa Noite)
“
Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.
”
”
Pam Brown
“
A little bloodthirsty, isn’t it? (Kim)
Given what they did to Tory, I’m thinking a quick death is merciful. Not to mention they ruined one of my favorite jackets and totaled my bike. (Acheron)
Well, let’s just torture then bomb the bastards. How dare they! (Pam)
”
”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron (Dark-Hunter, #14))
“
Good tuna-fish sandwiches; he’s the tallest man I’ve ever seen! (Pam)
”
”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron (Dark-Hunter, #14))
“
I can’t believe this night. I was supposed to be applauded and instead, I’m ruined. I swear to God in heaven if I ever see that man again, I will commit murder. (Tory)
Well, if you need help moving the body, you know where Kim and I live. (Pam)
”
”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron (Dark-Hunter, #14))
“
Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising)
“
Music does not have a race or a disposition! Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language. A universal religion of sorts. Certainly it's my religion. Music surpasses all distinctions between people" -Father
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Echo)
“
I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising)
“
YOUR FATE IS NOT YET SEALED.
EVEN IN THE DARKEST NIGHT, A STAR WILL SHINE,
A BELL WILL CHIME, A PATH WILL BE REVEALED.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Echo)
“
The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!"
Esperanza smiled and reached over and gently pulled the yarn, unraveling the uneven stitches. Then she looked into Isabel's trusting eyes and said, "Do not ever be afraid to start over.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising)
“
Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising)
“
Everybody has a heart. Sometimes you gotta work hard to find it" -Mouse
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Echo)
“
I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
”
”
Pam Houston
“
And I ultimately not only addressed it, I named my two moods Roy and Pam. Roy is Rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood, and Pam is Sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs. (Pam stands for “piss and moan.”) One mood is the meal, and the next mood is the check.
”
”
Carrie Fisher (Wishful Drinking)
“
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
”
”
Pam Brown
“
Create a story of which you will be proud.
”
”
Pam Jenoff (The Lost Girls of Paris)
“
Pam. Listen.'
'The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.'
'Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.'
'Fuck a zombie!'
- Sookie & Pam, Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10))
“
Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most ...
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12))
“
Love is like a series of improbable, lonely notes landing together in meaningful chaos. Where every channel carries a rhythm that conveys an expression of emotion. It doesn't feel flat or fake or hollow. It's not exaggerated with overtones. The complexity might feel organized, but the creation is never controlled.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Beneath the Burn)
“
Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.
”
”
Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness)
“
no matter how much sadness there is in life, there are equal amounts of maybe-things’ll-get-better-someday-soon.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Echo)
“
How is Eric?'
'Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he'll tell you about.'
'Thanks for the warning. I'll go to the house now. You're my favorite breather.'
'Oh. Well ... great.'
She hung up.
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10))
“
It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.
”
”
Pam Houston (Waltzing the Cat)
“
Why are we so hard on one another? I wonder. Hadn’t the world already given us challenges enough?
”
”
Pam Jenoff (The Orphan's Tale)
“
I fucking love you. I don’t deserve to love you, but I will spend the rest of my life earning that right. You are my music, do you understand?
”
”
Pam Godwin (Beneath the Burn)
“
This brutal man is my home. His hell is my heaven. I'm his Ivory, and he's my darkest note.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Dark Notes)
“
But I couldn’t leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would’ve felt terrible if I’d asked Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn’t think anything about it. In fact, probably he’d have sent Pam.
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10))
“
How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Becoming Naomi León)
“
Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising)
“
She was his greatest possibility. His reason. His why. He would give whatever she needed to be whole and happy, because loving her was as essential as drawing air.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Beneath the Burn)
“
Should we do this now?"
Pam gave an almost inaudible snort. She was smiling in the glow of the streetlight, suddenly exhilarated. "You waiting for an engraved invite?"
Lord save me from sarcastic vampires.
”
”
Charlaine Harris
“
She said people on hard times deserved to have beauty in their lives as much as anyone else, whether or not they could pay their rent or were walking to a breadline. Granny said that just because someone was poor didn't mean they were poor of heart.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Echo)
“
You're going to hell."
His lips twitched then erupted into a full-faced smile.
"Oh, good. I was worried you'd be there alone.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Deliver (Deliver, #1))
“
Whatever you focus on expands,
”
”
Pam Grout (E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality)
“
We cannot change who we are. Sooner or later we will all have to face ourselves.
”
”
Pam Jenoff (The Orphan's Tale)
“
We need each other, not because our bodies fit so well together. But because our hearts beat the same tune, for the same reason.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Dark Notes)
“
A weight pressed on his heart. How could he want something and fear it so much at the same time?
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Echo)
“
The strongest love begins from a place of conflict.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Dirty Ties)
“
Do you write novels?" I said.
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.
”
”
Pam Houston (Waltzing the Cat)
“
Love isn't a decision. It arrives unannounced, breeds madness, and leaves a sea of ruin in its wake. Hate him or love him. Either way, he's in certain hell.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Sea of Ruin (Sea of Ruin, #1))
“
what defines us is not how we fall but how we land.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Deliver (Deliver, #1))
“
I will never regret not having children. What I regret is that I live in a world where in spite of everything, that decision is still not quite okay.
”
”
Pam Houston (Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids)
“
Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods.
”
”
Pam Leo
“
Juntas somos muito mais fortes.
”
”
Pamela Gonçalves (Boa Noite)
“
I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.
”
”
Pam Houston
“
If Hunter hadn't been there, I would've picked up the phone to call Eric. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right? But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd ask Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam.
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10))
“
But I can’t leave, not yet. I’ll stay with her until sunrise. If I brace my feet, I won’t slide. I can rest my cheek on the roof tile and still see her. Pacing. Pulling her hair.
“I’ll fix you,” I tell her. “I promise.”
Even though I don’t know how.
It’s better than good-bye.
”
”
Pam Bachorz (Candor)
“
Which is sharper? The hatchet that cuts down dreams? Or the scythe that clears a path for another?
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (The Dreamer)
“
I see all of you. I claim every jagged pieces of you.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Deliver (Deliver, #1))
“
His tongue fucks my mouth the way his cock fills my pussy. Deeply, urgently, and completely unrestrained.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Dark Notes)
“
To survivors of sexual abuse, for bullying your demons in any manner you choose, and for accepting only the definition of therapy that works for you. You have the right to remember. To voice it. To be pissed off about it. Above all, to be proud. You’ve outlasted your scars and can teach the lesson on heroism.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Beneath the Burn)
“
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
”
”
Pam Brown
“
I don't see how you can claim to own a place and treat it so poor, there are methods of getting what you want without tearing at the land like a pack of wild dogs.
”
”
C Pam Zhang (How Much of These Hills Is Gold)
“
Es más rico el rico cuando empobrece que el pobre cuando enriquece. The rich person is richer when he becomes poor, than the poor person when he becomes rich.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold))
“
Dare to be vulnerable with me.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Beneath the Burn)
“
What shows up in our lives is a direct reflection of our inner thoughts and emotions.
”
”
Pam Grout (E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality)
“
The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.
”
”
Pam Jenoff (The Lost Girls of Paris)
“
Tonight, she’ll bend for my punishment, tremble for my touch, and I’ll risk it all to show her exactly what she means to me.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Dark Notes)
“
Nothing is inconceivable, and everything is possible. The proof is in the magic of music.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Dark Notes)
“
... and her name was Freedom.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Riding Freedom)
“
The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.
”
”
Pam Houston
“
Never assume that you know the mind of another.
”
”
Pam Jenoff (The Orphan's Tale)
“
Laughter tumbled from the bunk above. “Who needs groupies when I can listen to you two every night? Can you pass me a sock or something? I just spewed down my leg.”
Fucking Laz.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Beneath the Burn)
“
You don't really know someone until you see them in the dark.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Vanquish (Deliver, #2))
“
The witch is the ultimate feminist icon because she is a fully rounded symbol of female oppression and liberation.
”
”
Pam Grossman (Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power (Witchcraft Bestseller))
“
It’s universally known that the more forbidden something is, the more desirable it becomes.
”
”
Pam Godwin (Dark Notes)
“
It’s disgusting. They melted my girl down and poured her into their mold. And this perversion is what she cooled into. I can’t be near her. Can’t see her, smell her, hear her voice chirping like a bird.
I tell her the same thing I’ve been whispering every night on the roof. “I’m sorry. It’s my fault.
”
”
Pam Bachorz (Candor)
“
This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan
“
I'm so sorry. I love you. I never could have hurt you.
”
”
Pam Jenoff (The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, #1))
“
And wasn’t that the real reason for traveling, a reason bigger than poorness and desperation and greed and fury—didn’t they know, low in their bones, that as long as they moved and the land unfurled, that as long as they searched, they would forever be searchers and never quite lost?
”
”
C Pam Zhang (How Much of These Hills Is Gold)
“
We came to wish you a happy day,” Eric said. “And I suppose, as usual, Bill will want to express his undying love that surpasses my love, as he’ll tell you—and Pam will want to say something sarcastic and nearly painful, while reminding you that she loves you, too.”
Bill and Pam looked decidedly miffed at Eric’s preemptive strike, but I wasn’t going to let anything dim my mood.
“And what about you, Eric?” I asked on counterattack. “Are you going to tell me that you love me just as much as Bill, but in a practical way, while finding some way to subtly threaten me and simultaneously remind me that you may be leaving with Freyda?
”
”
Charlaine Harris (Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12))
“
As três garotas e eu automaticamente nos unimos no primeiro dia de aula, como se precisássemos daquilo para nos protegermos, e é quase isso mesmo. Inicialmente como instinto e, depois, conscientemente com um time.
”
”
Pamela Gonçalves (Boa Noite)
“
Pam (from The Office) is not intimidating, like one of those women who wears makeup and tailored clothes, and has a good job that she enjoys, and confidence, and an adult woman's sexuality. There's nothing scary about Pam, because there's no mystery; she's just like the boys who like her; mousy and shy. The ultimate emo-boy fantasy is to meet a nerdy, cute girl just like him, and nobody else will realize she's pretty. And she'll melt when she sees his record collection because it's just like hers....and she'll never want to go out to a party for which he'll be forced to comb his hair, or buy grown-up shoes or tie a tie, or demonstrate a hearty handshake, or make eye contact, or relate to people who work in different fields, or to basically act like a man.
”
”
Julie Klausner (I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated)
“
That an old Charonte custom that go back forever 'casue we a really old race of demons who go back even before forever." She looked over to where Danger's shade glittered in the opposite corner while the former Dark-Huntress was assisting Pam and Kim with the birth, and explained the custom to her.
"When a new baby is born you kill off an old annoying family member who gets on everyone's nerves which for all of us would be the heifer-goddess 'cause the only person who like her be you Akra-Kat. I know she you mother and all, but sometimes you just gotta say no thank you. You a mean old heifer-goddess who need to go play in traffic and get run over by something big like a steamroller or bus or something else really painful that would hurt her a lot and make the rest of us laugh"
"Not to mention the Simi barbecue would have been fun too if someone, Akra-Kat, hadn't stopped the Simi from it. I personally think it would have been a most magnificent gift for the baby. Barbecued heifer-goddess Artemis. Yum! No better meal. Oh then again baby got a delicate constitution and that might give the poor thing indigestion. Artemis definitely give the Simi indigestion and I ain't even ate her yet.
”
”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Retribution (Dark-Hunter, #19))
“
If/when I die, do not want Pam lonely. Want her to remarry, have full life. As long as new husband is nice guy. Gentle guy. Religious guy. Very caring + good to kids. But kids not fooled. Kids prefer dead dad (i.e., me) to religious guy. Pale, boring, religious guy, with no oomph, who wears weird sweaters and is always a little sad, due to, cannot get boner, due to physical ailment.
Ha ha.
Death very much on my mind tonight, future reader. Can it be true? That I will die? That Pam, kids will die? Is awful. Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
Note to self: try harder, in all things, to be better person.
”
”
George Saunders (Tenth of December)
“
Mrs. Potter said you were a kind and loving soul, underneath all the rest. I guess that means your heart's so sad that it's hard to get out from under the weight. When I was sad about my mother dying, Granny used to say grief is the heaviest thing to carry alone. So I know all about that" -Mike
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Echo)
“
so damn beautiful."
She grinned. "So you've said."
Perched on his elbow, stretched alongside her body, he'd say it again and again until she tired of hearing it. "You're beautiful."
"Uh huh."
"So fucking bea-"
"All right, Casanova. Enough!
”
”
Pam Godwin (Beneath the Burn)
“
There is always something wrong with redheads. The hair is kinky, or it's the wrong color, too dark and tough, or too pale and sickly. And the skin - it rejects the elements: wind, sun, everything discolors it. A really beautiful redhead is rarer than a flawless forty-carat pigeon-blood ruby - or a flawed one, for that matter. But none of this was true of Kate. Her hair was like a winter sunset, lighted with the last of the pale afterglow. And the only redhead I've ever seen with a complexion to compare with hers was Pamela Churchill's. But then, Pam is English, she grew up saturated with dewy English mists, something every dermatologist ought to bottle.
”
”
Truman Capote (Answered Prayers)
“
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.
”
”
Pam Brown
“
And no matter where you are right now, you can come on out and stand in the middle of it as the sun is going down, and you can know that right in the spot where you are standing, there used to be someone else, that at some other point in time, someone stood where you are standing, thinking their own thoughts. And someday in the future someone will stand there and wonder about you, wonder if there was ever anybody else.
Keep in mind that you are making memories.
Consider that something you take for granted today may be the one thing you might pine for someday, and there might not be any more of it left, but you'll remember its sweetness. Remember the curve of the sun in your bedroom window late in the day, the way your little brother's hair smelled after his bath, and the sound of your mother and father talking in the kitchen.
Make sure you notice if the trees meet in an arch over your street, or if there's a certain sound that you hear at a particular time every day. Take note of those people who are so familiar to you, and consider memorizing them for a time when they are gone.
And know that if anyone ever says to you, "What will you always remember about this place?" you will know just exactly which story it is that you would tell them.
”
”
Pam Conrad (Our House)
“
Esperanza leaned around the side of the truck. As they rounded a curve, it appeared as if the mountains pulled away from each other, like a curtain opening on stage, revealing the San Joaquin Valley beyond. Flat and spacious, it spread out like a blanket of patchwork fields. Esperanza could see no end to the plots of yellow, brown, and shades of green. The road finally leveled out on the valley floor, and she gazed back at the mountains from where they'd come. They looked like monstrous lions' paws resting at the edge of ridge.
”
”
Pam Muñoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising)