Swallowed

Famous quotes containing the word swallowed:

    Those times I mussed his curly black hair
    and touched his ten tar-fingers
    and swallowed down his whiskey breath.
    Red. Red. Father, you are blood red.
    Father,
    we are two birds on fire.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    The trouble with being a woman, Skeezix,
    is being a little girl in the first place.
    Not all the books of the world will change that.
    I have swallowed an orange, being woman.
    You have swallowed a ruler, being man.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)