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So I got dressed up kind of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-y goth. As I head out, I say bye to Mum and Dad, and Mum says, ‘You look cool’, just as Dad says, ‘You look terrifying.


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purse. She...
ABIGAIL ROUX My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMS A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said tw...
ABIGAIL THOMAS There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of win...
ABIGAIL THOMAS This Saturday? As in tomorrow Saturday? We have to give lectures in twelve hours? We're not prepared...
ABIGAIL ROUX We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world.
ABIGAIL THOMAS Either conquer the night, or become one of its conquests.
ABIGAIL BIDDINGER I'm Catholic. I don't pray, I just ask for forgiveness after.
ABIGAIL ROUX Someone would have to be out of their mind not to come back to you. I walked through a blizzard to g...
ABIGAIL ROUX My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our cul...
ABIGAIL SPENCER Good kitty"
"Why do you encourage them?"
"They're good kitties."
"They're your minion...
ABIGAIL ROUX The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
ABIGAIL ADAMS This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures ...
ABIGAIL GEORGE Kidnapped by a vampire, death by a squid. How tragic.
ABIGAIL GIBBS Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fire
Woman of the world caught up in your...
ABIGAIL GEORGE Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fire
Woman of the world caught up in your...
ABIGAIL GEORGE I don't want your duty kisses. They taste bitter
ABIGAIL REYNOLDS My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN Forget career, forget the future, forget existential worries, just get yourselves a couple of dogs, ...
ABIGAIL THOMAS I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditi...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situa...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has ...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls playe...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN Passion can’t be planned; only felt.
ABIGAIL BIDDINGER True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. -Abigail Van Bure...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN