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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9a5babe | Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 454dc6d | Sam was waiting for her,his gaze sweeping over her. "Looks great." "I look like a geek," Lucy said. "I smell like a brewery. And I need a bra." "My dream date." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 9a1e9de | I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose." ~ Haven Travis" | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| af5d2f9 | In this life and the next, you're my only hope at happiness. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 0d101d7 | Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others? | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 594d7d2 | I suppose when you say you slept with him, it was more than just a nap?" Lillian shot her a withering glance. "Daisy, don't be a pea wit." | historical-romance humour romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 8392d52 | Falling hard and fast. And there didn't seem to be a thing I could do about it. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 49a5b7c | I don't really like this song," Emma had said. "You told me it was your favourite." "It's beautiful. But it always makes me sad." "Why, love?" he'd asked gently. "It's about finding each other again. About someone coming home." Emma had lifted her head from his shoulder and looked at him earnestly. "It's about losing someone, and having to wait until you're together in heaven." "There's nothing in the lyrics about heaven," he'd said. "But t.. | love | Lisa Kleypas | |
| d0f46b6 | Simon," she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the privacy of her thoughts. Moistening her dry lips, she tried once more, and to her astonishment, she did it again. "Simon..." "Yes?" A new tension had entered his long, hard body, and at the same time, his hand moved over the shape of her skull in the softest caress possible. "Please... take me to my room." Hunt tilted her he.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| c359cb2 | Obviously he's courting the entire family," West told her. "I can't speak for everyone else, but I for one feel thoroughly wooed." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 2340ac2 | The right words can bind someone more effectively than chains. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| a3f15bf | All husbands are unfaithful in one way or another." Lillian and Daisy glanced at each other with raised brows. "Father isn't," Lillian replied smartly. Mercedes responded with a laugh that sounded like crackling leaves being crushed underfoot. "Isn't he, dear? Perhaps he has stayed true to me physically--one can never be certain about these things. But his work has proved a more jealous and demanding mistress than a flesh-and-blood woman co.. | kleypas wallflowers | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 9de2d40 | Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 1121aec | You told me you believed marriage was for other people." "You're the only man who could make me believe that it's for me, too. Although when you get down to it, love is what's real. I still say marriage is just a piece of paper." Jack smiled. "Let's find out," he said, and he pulled me down to the bed with him. Jack & Ella" | jack travis | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 416afb4 | Oh, all right," she said balefully, beginning to shake all over. "I'll admit it--I want you. There, are you satisfied? I want you." "In what capacity? Lover, or husband?" Annabelle stared at him in shock. "What?" His arms slid around her, holding her quivering frame securely against his. He said nothing, only watched her intently as she tried to grasp the implications of the question. "But you're not the marrying kind," she managed to sa.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 9985ec5 | Time is what I'm giving you," he said, staring down at her. His hand curved beneath her chin, compelling her to look at him. "There's only one way for me to prove that I will love you and be faithful to you for the rest of my life. And that's by loving you and being faithful to you for the rest of my life. Even if you don't want me. Even if you choose not to be with me. I'm giving you all the time I have left. I vow to you that from this mo.. | kathleen love ohmygod-i-m-crying | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 1dcd6b9 | Sebastian left the bed and went to the washstand on unsteady legs. He felt dazed, uncertain, as if he were the one who had just lost his virginity instead of Evangeline. He had long thought that there was nothing new for him to experience. He had been wrong. For a man whose lovemaking was a practiced blend of technique and choreography, it had been a shock to find himself at the spontaneous mercy of his own passions. He had meant to withdra.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| ddae02b | Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. | shakespeare | John Irving | |
| 9167d5e | In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases. | John Irving | ||
| 3333e10 | Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much like Ina when she has all her embroidery threads arranged to her satisfaction. He looked so pleased that I checked over my shoulder to see if there might be someone else behind me who had drawn his attention." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 21d52eb | I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| ddd850c | Your Majesty, what I am saying is that I have never seen him driven, and rarely led either. However, if you were to twist him around your finger and could conceivably grind him under your heel in the process, you have to know that I would be eternally grateful. I would die a happy man. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 5f06c12 | No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many. | serve | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 0d8ed4b | The flat top of the hill was scattered with the bodies of dead men in the uniforms of Sounis and Eddis. The outposts of both armies had met here. As I stood staring, I thought, These are my dead. All of them. The battle hadn't been unanticipated or forced on me, as the raid in the villa had been. I had chosen it. These men, Eddisian and Sounisian alike, had died for my decisions. When the magus stepped from the bushes toward the back part o.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| d2bd058 | You are wary of treachery?" "More wary of stupidity." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 5fee7ea | Unkingly, in so many ways, My King. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| e58bbba | Peter..." She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. "Let's not go there." "That's what people always say about places where they already are." | places-already-are | Michel Faber | |
| de70251 | And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade. | crossroads death inspirational life-lessons truth | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 3224811 | It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you | oath obey | Jacqueline Carey | |
| c471d5d | Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| da0a30b | Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 9a8693a | Why d'you read then?" "Partly for pleasure, and because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke, and partly to know myself. When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me; I've got out of the book all that's any use to me, and I can't get anything more if I read it a dozen ti.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 0e15530 | Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life." | Diane Setterfield | ||
| d045aa7 | The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 6685e1b | Reality is so flexible these days, it's hard to tell who's disconnected from it and who isn't. You might even say it's a pointless distinction. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4929239 | When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| dbc59a1 | The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day. | Irving Stone | ||
| 3b4246c | So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know. | bible christianity death heaven hell | Marcus J. Borg | |
| 00b91a8 | I can't go back," said Towser. "Nor I," said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog," said Towser. "And me," said Fowler, "back into a man." | dogs science-fiction | Clifford D. Simak | |
| cf9ea3d | Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his character. A random survey of his achievements might show him mastering German, French, and the contrasted dialects of Harvard and Dakota Territory; assembling fossil skeletons with paleontological skill; fighting for an amateur boxing championship; .. | teddy theodore | Edmund Morris | |
| cd4ac0a | Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight. | Gene Wolfe | ||
| d8bd405 | What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree. | popularity wisdom | John Brunner | |
| e45b615 | to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other | irony | John Brunner | |
| b374f27 | Who watches the watchmen? | Alan Moore |