“Lord, give me the confidence of an old, rich white man.”
―
Denise Williams,
How To Fail at Flirting
“I’m just saying, we don’t need to insert men into every aspect of our language.” “Okay, ovary up. Fallopian forward. Vulva with a vengeance.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“Do you know how rife with toxic masculinity the phrase man up is?” I challenged, mirroring her pose. “It implies that to be courageous is to be a man.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“I’d convinced myself it wasn’t abuse. I was educated, and I thought I knew better, so what was happening was something else. I’d thought it would get better, and when it didn’t, it was too late. I’d started to believe his lies, that I needed him. By the time I stopped believing the lies, I believed the threats.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“You’re a badass, hot-as-hell, fucking brilliant doctor, not some insecure high school girl. Man up!” “Do you know how rife with toxic masculinity the phrase man up is?” I challenged, mirroring her pose. “It implies that to be courageous is to be a man.” “Do you know how annoying it is when you change the subject?” Her tone was smug. “I’m just saying, we don’t need to insert men into every aspect of our language.” “Okay, ovary up. Fallopian forward. Vulva with a vengeance.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“Someone who really wants to be with you would be willing to move mountains, let alone break rules.” ― Denise Williams, The Fastest Way to Fall
“a tragic roster of activists and innocents had died for the crime of being black or supporting blacks in their state. There was Willie Edwards Jr., the truck driver forced off a bridge to his death by four Klansmen in Montgomery. There was William Lewis Moore, the man from Baltimore shot and killed in Attalla while trying to walk a letter denouncing segregation 385 miles to the governor of Mississippi. There were four young girls, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, killed by the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. There was thirteen-year-old Virgil Lamar Ware, shot to death on the handlebars of his brother’s bicycle in the same city. There was Jimmie Lee Jackson, beaten and shot by state troopers in Marion while he tried to protect his mother and grandfather during a protest. There was the Reverend James Reeb, the Unitarian minister beaten to death in Selma. There was Viola Gregg Liuzzo, shot by Klansmen while trying to ferry marchers between Selma and Montgomery. There was Willie Brewster, shot to death while walking home in Anniston. There was Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a seminarian registering black voters who was arrested for participating in a protest and then shot by a deputy sheriff in Hayneville. There was Samuel Leamon Younge Jr., murdered by a gas station owner after arguing about segregated restrooms.” ― Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
“For my husband. If I were rearranging the alphabet, I’d put U and I next to each other.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“So, woman up.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“Plato’s term for soul-suture: “the fastening of heaven.” Rumi’s term: “the cord of causation.” Plotinus’s: “our tutelary spirit, not bound up with our nature, not the agent in our action, belonging to us as belonging to our soul, as the power which consummates the chosen life.” And American poets have discovered this magic, too! Denise Levertov speaks of a thread, finer than spider’s silk, that pulls at her, keeps her company, guides her. William Stafford speaks of a thread we can follow as it pierces things that change, yet itself never changes. That these spirit threads, as Plotinus says, aren’t ours, that they’re the soul’s own unbreakable extensions, is why they have the” ― David James Duncan, Sun House
“Eh, we’re nowhere near perfect, and you’re aware of that because she tells you everything.” He fixed me with a knowing look, hands tucked behind his head. “I screw up weekly, and living with your best friend, the love of my life, is not always a picnic, but that’s normal. People are imperfect, so relationships will always have flaws.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“In this recording, she’s just accused by one of her best friends of plotting to murder her husband, who was in fact murdered, and she never says, ‘Oh no I didn’t.’ What she says is, ‘Wait, Marcus is involved?’” Fuchs urged jurors to listen to the entire audio recording between Denise and Kathy because “it lays out this entire case without Brian.” ― Steven B. Epstein, Evil at Lake Seminole: The Shocking True Story Surrounding the Disappearance of Mike Williams
“I shouldn’t think about you as much as I do or count down the hours until I see you next. I shouldn’t want to kiss you again more than taking my next breath, but I do.” ― Denise Williams, The Fastest Way to Fall
“You’re better than easy fixes, Britta. You don’t need fixing at all. You’re making changes, but not because you were broken to begin with. Please promise me you won’t let this guy, or any guy, make you question yourself again. Anyone who makes you feel you’re not good enough isn’t worth the breath it takes to tell them to go to hell.” ― Denise Williams, The Fastest Way to Fall
“Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books Ghost-Managing Book List The Uninvited Guests, by Sadie Jones Ceremonies of the Damned, by Adrian C. Louis Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice Father of Lies, by Brian Evenson The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead Asleep, by Banana Yoshimoto The Hatak Witches, by Devon A. Mihesuah Beloved, by Toni Morrison The Through, by A. Rafael Johnson Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders Savage Conversations, by LeAnne Howe The Regeneration Trilogy, by Pat Barker Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth Songs for Discharming, by Denise Sweet Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57, by Gerald Vizenor Short Perfect Novels Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabel Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson Sula, by Toni Morrison The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad The All of It, by Jeannette Haine Winter in the Blood, by James Welch Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald First Love, by Ivan Turgenev Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai” ― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
“She outsmarted me. In my experience, you marry the girl who outsmarts you, and you always have someone smart in your corner.” ― Denise Williams, Do You Take This Man
“You're better than easy fixes, Britta. You don't need fixing at all. You're making changes, but not because you were broken to begin with. Please promise me you won't let this guy, or any guy, make you question yourself again. Anyone who makes you feel like you're not good enough isn't worth the breath it takes to tell them to go to hell.” ― Denise Williams
“NORA AND LIBBY’S ULTIMATE READING LISTIncense and Sensibility by Sonali DevThe Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-BrokaYinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola BlackburnArsenic and Adobo by Mia P. ManansalaA Special Place for Women by Laura HankinA Thorn in the Saddle by Rebekah WeatherspoonJust Last Night by Mhairi McFarlaneAn Extraordinary Union by Alyssa ColeThe Editor by Steven RowleyThe Siren by Katherine St. JohnA Lot Like Adiós by Alexis DariaVerity by Colleen HooverThe Kiss Quotient by Helen HoangPortrait of a Scotsman by Evie DunmoreThe Fastest Way to Fall by Denise WilliamsSo We Meet Again by Suzanne ParkBy the Book by Jasmine GuilloryPayback’s A Witch by Lana HarperA Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare” ― Emily Henry, Book Lovers
“Greensboro-born William Sydney Porter—better” ― Denise Kiernan, The Last Castle
“I’m just saying, we don’t need to insert men into every aspect of our language.” “Okay, ovary up. Fallopian forward. Vulva with a vengeance.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“Do you know how rife with toxic masculinity the phrase man up is?” I challenged, mirroring her pose. “It implies that to be courageous is to be a man.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“I’d convinced myself it wasn’t abuse. I was educated, and I thought I knew better, so what was happening was something else. I’d thought it would get better, and when it didn’t, it was too late. I’d started to believe his lies, that I needed him. By the time I stopped believing the lies, I believed the threats.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“You’re a badass, hot-as-hell, fucking brilliant doctor, not some insecure high school girl. Man up!” “Do you know how rife with toxic masculinity the phrase man up is?” I challenged, mirroring her pose. “It implies that to be courageous is to be a man.” “Do you know how annoying it is when you change the subject?” Her tone was smug. “I’m just saying, we don’t need to insert men into every aspect of our language.” “Okay, ovary up. Fallopian forward. Vulva with a vengeance.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“Someone who really wants to be with you would be willing to move mountains, let alone break rules.” ― Denise Williams, The Fastest Way to Fall
“a tragic roster of activists and innocents had died for the crime of being black or supporting blacks in their state. There was Willie Edwards Jr., the truck driver forced off a bridge to his death by four Klansmen in Montgomery. There was William Lewis Moore, the man from Baltimore shot and killed in Attalla while trying to walk a letter denouncing segregation 385 miles to the governor of Mississippi. There were four young girls, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, killed by the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. There was thirteen-year-old Virgil Lamar Ware, shot to death on the handlebars of his brother’s bicycle in the same city. There was Jimmie Lee Jackson, beaten and shot by state troopers in Marion while he tried to protect his mother and grandfather during a protest. There was the Reverend James Reeb, the Unitarian minister beaten to death in Selma. There was Viola Gregg Liuzzo, shot by Klansmen while trying to ferry marchers between Selma and Montgomery. There was Willie Brewster, shot to death while walking home in Anniston. There was Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a seminarian registering black voters who was arrested for participating in a protest and then shot by a deputy sheriff in Hayneville. There was Samuel Leamon Younge Jr., murdered by a gas station owner after arguing about segregated restrooms.” ― Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
“For my husband. If I were rearranging the alphabet, I’d put U and I next to each other.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“So, woman up.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“Plato’s term for soul-suture: “the fastening of heaven.” Rumi’s term: “the cord of causation.” Plotinus’s: “our tutelary spirit, not bound up with our nature, not the agent in our action, belonging to us as belonging to our soul, as the power which consummates the chosen life.” And American poets have discovered this magic, too! Denise Levertov speaks of a thread, finer than spider’s silk, that pulls at her, keeps her company, guides her. William Stafford speaks of a thread we can follow as it pierces things that change, yet itself never changes. That these spirit threads, as Plotinus says, aren’t ours, that they’re the soul’s own unbreakable extensions, is why they have the” ― David James Duncan, Sun House
“Eh, we’re nowhere near perfect, and you’re aware of that because she tells you everything.” He fixed me with a knowing look, hands tucked behind his head. “I screw up weekly, and living with your best friend, the love of my life, is not always a picnic, but that’s normal. People are imperfect, so relationships will always have flaws.” ― Denise Williams, How To Fail at Flirting
“In this recording, she’s just accused by one of her best friends of plotting to murder her husband, who was in fact murdered, and she never says, ‘Oh no I didn’t.’ What she says is, ‘Wait, Marcus is involved?’” Fuchs urged jurors to listen to the entire audio recording between Denise and Kathy because “it lays out this entire case without Brian.” ― Steven B. Epstein, Evil at Lake Seminole: The Shocking True Story Surrounding the Disappearance of Mike Williams
“I shouldn’t think about you as much as I do or count down the hours until I see you next. I shouldn’t want to kiss you again more than taking my next breath, but I do.” ― Denise Williams, The Fastest Way to Fall
“You’re better than easy fixes, Britta. You don’t need fixing at all. You’re making changes, but not because you were broken to begin with. Please promise me you won’t let this guy, or any guy, make you question yourself again. Anyone who makes you feel you’re not good enough isn’t worth the breath it takes to tell them to go to hell.” ― Denise Williams, The Fastest Way to Fall
“Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books Ghost-Managing Book List The Uninvited Guests, by Sadie Jones Ceremonies of the Damned, by Adrian C. Louis Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice Father of Lies, by Brian Evenson The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead Asleep, by Banana Yoshimoto The Hatak Witches, by Devon A. Mihesuah Beloved, by Toni Morrison The Through, by A. Rafael Johnson Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders Savage Conversations, by LeAnne Howe The Regeneration Trilogy, by Pat Barker Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth Songs for Discharming, by Denise Sweet Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57, by Gerald Vizenor Short Perfect Novels Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabel Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson Sula, by Toni Morrison The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad The All of It, by Jeannette Haine Winter in the Blood, by James Welch Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald First Love, by Ivan Turgenev Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai” ― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
“She outsmarted me. In my experience, you marry the girl who outsmarts you, and you always have someone smart in your corner.” ― Denise Williams, Do You Take This Man
“You're better than easy fixes, Britta. You don't need fixing at all. You're making changes, but not because you were broken to begin with. Please promise me you won't let this guy, or any guy, make you question yourself again. Anyone who makes you feel like you're not good enough isn't worth the breath it takes to tell them to go to hell.” ― Denise Williams
“NORA AND LIBBY’S ULTIMATE READING LISTIncense and Sensibility by Sonali DevThe Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-BrokaYinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola BlackburnArsenic and Adobo by Mia P. ManansalaA Special Place for Women by Laura HankinA Thorn in the Saddle by Rebekah WeatherspoonJust Last Night by Mhairi McFarlaneAn Extraordinary Union by Alyssa ColeThe Editor by Steven RowleyThe Siren by Katherine St. JohnA Lot Like Adiós by Alexis DariaVerity by Colleen HooverThe Kiss Quotient by Helen HoangPortrait of a Scotsman by Evie DunmoreThe Fastest Way to Fall by Denise WilliamsSo We Meet Again by Suzanne ParkBy the Book by Jasmine GuilloryPayback’s A Witch by Lana HarperA Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare” ― Emily Henry, Book Lovers
“Greensboro-born William Sydney Porter—better” ― Denise Kiernan, The Last Castle
