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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cfd0c5f | Evie," Lillian interupted impatiently, "men expect to be deceived in these matters. They're happiest that way. If one were straightforward with them the whole prospect of marriage would be too alarming, and none of them would ever do it." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| af0ff37 | How much do you have in common with this guy?" "Not much. Basically we're polar opposites. But do you want to know the main attraction, the weird part? . . . It's the talking." "Talking about what?" "About anything," I said earnestly. "We get started and it's like sex, this back-andforth, and we're both so there, do you know what I mean? We rattle each other. And some conversations seem to be happening on a few different levels at once. But.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 443cce8 | Although Annabelle couldn't see his face, she heard the note of quiet warning in his voice as he spoke to Westcliff. "We'll continue our discussion later. Right now I intend to escort Miss Peyton to her room." "That is not a wise idea, in my opinion," the earl said. "I'm glad I didn't ask for it, then," Simon returned pleasantly." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 61dd7b4 | The guy who broke up with me... he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore. | loss love | Lisa Kleypas | |
| a18697d | And there's one more thing to be aware of " Cam said with a wintry softness that disguised all hint of feeling. "If you succeed in marrying her we're not losing a sister. You're gaining an entire family--who will protect her at any cost." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 02c8be3 | Be careful dear that you don't end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 853b600 | I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 5cf0376 | she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 71e15f7 | To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died literally chosen death before breaking his word. | promises | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 68cb6f4 | I'll leave you here to finish your, er...conversation." As he withdrew from the room, however, it seemed that he couldn't keep from ducking his head back in and asking Marcus cryptically, "Once a week, did you say?" "Close the door behind you," Marcus said icily, and Hunt obeyed with a smothered sound that sounded suspiciously like laughter." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| dfa032e | You'll be my wife," he said inexorably. "You want to own me!" she accused, trying to crawl away from him. "Yes." He flung her down on the bed and flattened his weight on her. As he spoke, his hot breath fanned her mouth and chin. "Yes. I want other people to look at you and know you're mine. I want you to take my name and my money. I want you to live with me. I want to be inside you . . . part of your thoughts . . . your body . . . all of y.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 412ac66 | If you don't want to have sex, I don't want to talk about our feelings." He scrubbed his hand through his hair, looking confused. "Well, that's for damn sure the first time a woman's ever said that to me." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 46b9c9e | He took his mouth from hers and stared down at her with eyes so dark they no longer looked blue. "Amanda, do you trust me?" "Of course not," she said. "I don't know the first thing about you." Laughter rustled from his chest. "Sensible woman." | jack-travis lisa-kleypas suddenly-you | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 17c17f0 | What flaw could you possibly find in his appearance?" "His posture," Hannah muttered. "What about it?" "He slouches." "He's an American. They all slouch. The weight of their wallets drags them over." | humor posture wallets | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 1e5dfda | Don't you dare send me away, you c-coward. Who else would love my freckles? Who else would care that my feet were cold? Who else would ravish me in the billiards room? | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| c739475 | I've lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| a65b741 | She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told. | rivers time | Caleb Carr | |
| 63ee788 | No touching Baby Jesus." "But we're his parents!" proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. "Mary Beth," Barb Wiggin said, "if you touch the Baby Jesus, I'm putting you in a cow costume." | John Irving | ||
| 7e310d1 | MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR. AT LEAST, YOU GET TO READ STUFF THAT'S WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO CAN WRITE! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR, YOU DON'T NEED ANY SPECIAL TALENT, YOU JUST HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT SOMEONE WANTS YOU TO SEE - TO WHAT MAKES SOMEONE ANGRIEST, OR THE MOST EXCITED IN SOME OTHER WAY. IT'S SO EASY!; I THINK THAT'S WHY THERE ARE SO MANY ENGLISH MAJORS! | inspirational-attitude | John Irving | |
| 447cfd7 | Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict. | Susan Minot | ||
| afa8950 | Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight. 'You have your answer, Little Thief. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 14cd164 | When I am actually willing to marry you, I will wear your earrings. Don't wait for it, Thief. | marriage thief thieves | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 8f81b02 | I asked Ochto what in the name of all that was sacred he thought he was doing. "Helping you," said Dirnes. "Why?" They put the soldier down, and Ochto straightened to look me in the eye. "Because I know nothing about kings and princes, but I know men." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| b5e1e2c | You are treasure beyond any price. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 97d34e2 | Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes? | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| ecb6889 | My lord. It is too much, and not enough | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 0be09be | Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland | homeland poets sing war | Jacqueline Carey | |
| be0f93b | Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved. | gods immortal stupid will | Jacqueline Carey | |
| b47e331 | There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| db5b0b2 | Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment. | passion | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 57834cd | The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 80e98be | Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| cf8269f | Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly? | shadows | Diane Setterfield | |
| 7794921 | But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 2d565f2 | You'll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don't have to think for themselves. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| e75d968 | We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art. | creativity judgement-of-art religion spirituality | Irving Stone | |
| d712943 | After all, the world is still great. | Irving Stone | ||
| 292ff42 | The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next .. | Irving Stone | ||
| 09339ba | Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh] | Irving Stone | ||
| 8e0b12d | Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth. | Jim Carroll | ||
| 65b374a | If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind. | religion | Jack Vance | |
| b2f113d | I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me | Gene Wolfe | ||
| 057c432 | Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true. | excuse excuses explain | John Brunner | |
| d9d2f81 | You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other. | Alan Moore |