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“What do ladies wear beneath their riding trousers?""I would think an infamous rake would already know.""I was never infamous. In fact, I'm fairly standard as far as rakes go.""The ones who deny it are the worst.”
Lisa Kleypas“Yes. And when a rake finally falls, he falls forever.”
Anne Gracie, The Perfect Rake“With great hope in their hearts and wholehearted belief in their eyes during each new attempt, they keep on using the same approach over and over again, and always FAIL... Yet every time they expect that somehow a totally different result will magically occur!They are “stepping on to the same rake,” and each time they’re surprised and angry when the rake handle hits them on the forehead again. But they keep seeing the reasons for their failures as just another hurtful kick from life—not a result of their own actions, which cause these setbacks. They just keep on blaming the rakes!”
Sahara Sanders, The Honest Book of International Dating: Smart Dating Strategies for Men“It's like raking leaves in the wind.”
Charlie Raymond“There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.”
Theodore Roosevelt“Rake your lifestyle. Gather all bitterness. Burn this bad attitude that has chocked the canals of your success. Be set free!”
Israelmore Ayivor, Let's Go to the Next Level“So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me -- if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowledge of any body of great literature. I can only protest, like all rakes in their shameful senescence, that I have had a good time.”
Robertson Davies, The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading Writing & the World of Books“I think: I would like to take N back to a story right now, like a rake. I would say, "Oh, this rake is uneven. Do you have any where the tines go straight across?" I would like to do a straight exchange. But there are things that cannot be returned. Errant husbands are one of them. Wives are not. Wives can be exchanged; I have always known this.”
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce“If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.”
Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box“I’m frozen in place as his eyes rake over me.”
Collette West, Night Games