Quotes by Amanda DeWees

The ability to lie persuasively is one of the greatest gifts a woman can possess in this life. Some critics, principally men, will argue that deception in women is inherently evil; but having spent the last fifteen years of my life in the theater, I can attest that lying not only is sometimes expedient but can save ones career.

Its so frustrating that everybody rags on eighties music, when theres a lot of terrific stuff out there, he said. Theres no irony to it. Its not afraid to just be happy or enthusiastic or earnest. Or to have melody. Sure, you can blame it for being naive, but isnt that refreshing next to the whiny navel-gazing that came after it?

He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as if he were not a presence but an absence, a hole cut out of the landscape.

The wavelets flung themselves up as if trying to pat my feet and I darted back, laughing, and picked up my skirts to chase them back as they receded, in a game of tag more ancient than I then knew.