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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7436019 | The lion opened his mouth, showing his big teeth. Yes, yes, you're bad. We know, Your Majesty. | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 944c271 | What may I do to get back into your good graces?" "You've done nothing to offend me." "Then why did you acknowledge Robart before me?" What? "You addressed him before you addressed me." I cleared my throat. "Just to be clear, you're upset because I spoke to Robart before I spoke to you? In the ballroom just before we went to check on the car?" "I understand that the circumstances of the summit prevent frank exchanges," Arland said. "An appe.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e353d0a | You want me to go back into that house protected by a magic sticky note?" "Don't even start," I told him. "It's working. If it weren't working, you couldn't drag me into that place." "What did you write on here? 'Don't die'?" No, I wrote, 'Don't be an a-hole!" I headed for the house. "On yours or mine?" "On yours" "Well, in that case, your magic isn't working. I'm still an asshole." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 01d57ec | I really would like to know," he said with genuine curiosity. "The next time I kill someone, I'd like to do it in a way that doesn't freak you out." "How about you don't kill anybody for a little bit?" "I can't make that promise." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 59b4524 | Her eyes sparkled. "You should try calling, 'Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.'" "I will kill you and nobody will find your body." | humor kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 777957c | Slowly the reality of the situation sank in. He got his ass kicked, learned nothing, and got saved by a dumb dog and an old lady. If he lived long enough to report to Nancy back in Adrianglia, he would have to gloss over this part. | bayou-moon ilona-andrews the-edge william | Ilona Andrews | |
| a2c336d | You're the least power-hungry person I've ever met. You're also the most stubborn person I've ever met. Disrespectful. Mouthy." "You mean independent and proactive in taking initiative." "That," | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e3129d4 | We have to stop anyway. I don't want you to regret this later. And I don't want your head to explode." "Really? You're so good that my head would explode?" It took him a moment. His expression changed from intense to speculative. "It's a possibility. I'm not a doctor, but Doolittle says it could happen." "That's a lot of expectation to live up to." "I exceed expectations." So modest, too." -- | sex funny kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 8bc7131 | In a perfect world, Joshua's vertically gifted murderer would've had himself a monologue before rampaging, during which he loudly and clearly would've announced his full name, occupation, religious preference, preferably with his god's country and time period of origin, his goals, dreams, and aspirations, and the location of his lair. But nobody had ever accused post-Shift Atlanta of being perfect. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 69db41b | Maybe I should roll down the window to let some of the sexual tension out. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 600e31f | One day some other Prime will threaten our House, and when that day comes, I'll kill him." What? "I'll do it quiet and clean, and nobody will ever know." Leon smiled. "I'm going to be a dark horse, House Baylor's secret. I'll be the best assassin. A legend. They'll never see me coming." I would kill Kurt. I would strangle him with my bare hands." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b5c8c0f | What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugene de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in th.. | youth psychology | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 8900cd5 | No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has cea.. | money love sense finance sincerity | Honoré de Balzac | |
| f5004e1 | If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| bfaefaf | Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature? | men protectiveness | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 92175df | There is something noble as well as terrible about suicide. The downfall of many men is not dangerous, for they fall like children, too near the ground to do themselves harm. But when a great man breaks, he has soared up to the heavens, espied some inaccessible paradise, and then fallen from a great height. The forces that make him seek peace from the barrel of a gun cannot be placated. How many young talents confined to an attic room withe.. | the-wild-ass-s-skin | Honoré de Balzac | |
| d036cbb | When she gets rattled, the South really comes out. Once when Daddy tried to cancel our country club membership because he said the dues were too high, she went from zero to Atlanta burning in zero point five seconds. | humor south | Jen Lancaster | |
| 695a3f6 | When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations? | Jen Lancaster | ||
| b20ae4f | Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| 57e479f | The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| ba91905 | The ancient rishis discovered these laws of sound alliance between nature and man. Because nature is an objectification of Aum, the Primal Sound or Vibratory Word, man can obtain control over all natural manifestations through the use of certain mantras or chants. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 4c896db | Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past (including the past of former lives), have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| b66abfc | For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin... | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| aaa31d3 | For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 638e573 | Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence...Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life. | St. Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 9629173 | So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 0c71a72 | When we are in the grip of craving or fury, head-over-heals in love our recoiling in dread, it is the limbic system that has us in its grip. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| fa6604f | However, the more stressful my situation is, the less I think about it, or anything related to it. At present , I thought about how the elevators were like mechanical horses, and I wondered if anyone loved them or named them. | Penny Reid | ||
| 908c1a8 | It wasn't my finest moment, but I rolled my eyes and actually huffed. "Fine, don't answer. I don't even know why I asked." "No, I am not having sex with anyone." "Oh." I shrugged nonchalantly, but for some reason his response filled me with glee. It was as if a unicorn had appeared beneath a double rainbow and started tap dancing." | Penny Reid | ||
| ad8973c | What do you call each other? What are your pet names? Dearest? Turtledove? Thor? Herr Handsome of my heart? Lizard of my labia? Captain of my clitoris? | Penny Reid | ||
| f9796f3 | You took one commercial flight, Steven. One." "Shhh!" he pressed his finger to his lips and loud whispered, "He'll hear you." I glanced to my right and left. "Who will hear me?" "Manuel, the plane." -- | Penny Reid | ||
| bd21c84 | I think men will always be arrested on some level by the idea of owning their spouse, of completely possessing the woman they love, of having her unquestioning trust and obedience and admiration. But most importantly, of actually being a man that deserves it all. And I think women--though they are loathe to admit it--fundamentally want to be possessed. | Penny Reid | ||
| 1b62504 | He reminded me of the Viking god Thor, if Thor had been a reclusive federal game warden from Texas with excellent manners. | Penny Reid | ||
| 6ff00d7 | This is the tattoo of life decisions." "Tattoo of life decisions?" "Yes. Tattoo. Marriage is the forever and permanent branding of one person to another. Sure, you can get it removed - but it's expensive, it's a process, and you're never the same after. You're scarred. It's always a part of you, visible or not. You get a tattoo with the intention of a life-long commitment. You have to defend its existence and take ownership of it in front.. | Penny Reid | ||
| e7fc777 | Dance with me." Blinking, first at his offered palm and then at his features, I asked, "Why?" Not immediately replying, he reached for me, pulled me to my feet, and slid an arm around my waist. I allowed him to hold my body against his, fit our hands together, and sway to the lovely music. Begrudgingly, I admitted to myself he had great rhythm. Someone had taught him to dance. Jehtro dipped his mouth to my ear, his beard tickling my neck as.. | Penny Reid | ||
| 194a42a | What is your least favorite part of the male anatomy?" "Uh...what?" "Come on." I nudged her shoulder. "You have to have a least favorite part." Marie stared at me for a beat then blinked rapidly. "Really? I just pour out my heart to you and...." "Balls," Ashley announced unceremoniously from her place on the floor. Elizabeth snickered. "Oh, my lord." Marie covered her face with her hands and shook her head. I ignored her and leaned closer t.. | Penny Reid | ||
| b823f94 | Nothing was worse than a handsome guy who became an ignorant toad when he spoke. | Penny Reid | ||
| fb3bf3a | It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success. | excuses humility | John C. Maxwell | |
| 963f6f0 | So truly perfectly the skies by merciful love whispered were, | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 99474ed | god's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word; so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon) resembles something that has not occurred: i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kiss without lips;a prayer lacking any knees but something beats within my shirt to prove he is undead who living noone is. I have never loved you dear as now i love. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 732835e | Spring is like a perhaps hand Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flow.. | E. E. Cummings | ||
| 3e4aa25 | for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine | travel poetry | E.E. Cummings | |
| 112bc8c | in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful the queer old balloonman whistles far and wee and bettyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it's spring and the goat-footed balloonMan whi.. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 196b124 | let's live suddenly without thinking under honest trees, a stream does.the brain of cleverly-crinkling -water pursues the angry dream of the shore. By midnight, a moon scratches the skin of the organised hills an edged nothing begins to prune let's live like the light that kills and let's as silence, because Whirl's after all: (after me)love,and after you. I occasionally feel vague how vague idon't know tenuous Now- | e e cummings |