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| 6f7806e | We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month, or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable. But don't be surprised when it leaves, either. Just be glad you had the opportunity to experience it. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 0985b92 | I think the existential dilemma is: We're social animals, so we all wrestle with a sense of inadequacy. But when we realize that we're not as inadequate as we thought we were, and when we realize that everybody else also thinks they're inadequate, then that ache goes away and the idea that we're not a person of value disappears to some extent. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 7346f7d | God is on the side of the winner. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 722d94b | If a woman has been married three years or more, you come to learn that she's usually easier to sleep with than a single woman. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 7b8aa3f | The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange! | strength defiance targaryen targaryens game-of-thrones jaehaerys-targaryen fire-and-blood fire | Ellen Raskin | |
| 9020c51 | Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. | memoirs-of-geisha sayuri | Arthur Golden | |
| 9117258 | Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by. | Arthur Golden | ||
| d8a8949 | It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 07da4bc | Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 9fbce98 | Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold. | hilarious | Nora Roberts | |
| cf4f8f4 | After hell comes heaven. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 5db9280 | Can you stand a little closer?" "Hmm?" "You smell good. I like to smell you." -- | regan | Nora Roberts | |
| 8d149ed | You said you survived, Anna, but you didn't. You triumphed. Everything about you is a testament to courage and strength." When she stared at him, obviously stunned, he smiled a little. "You didn't get either from a social worker or a counselor. They just helped you figure out how to use it. I figure you got it from your mother. She must have been a hell of a woman." "She was," Anna murmured, near tears again. "So are you." | cameron-quinn | Nora Roberts | |
| 2e5f3a7 | I'll give you everything I've got, and if you need more, I'll find it and give it to you. | romance love | Nora Roberts | |
| d603c35 | You don't want to get in the habit of overusing the word "fuck" as an adjective. You'll miss the vast variety of its uses." | Nora Roberts | ||
| ccd716d | Love is very brave. | Nora Roberts | ||
| bd6cea9 | After weighing the pros and cons, I've decided sex with you would be mutually satisfying. You're attractive and pleasant. And clean. You kiss very well, and while I've found that's not always a reliable gauge for skill in bed, it often follows. If you're agreeable, we can finish dinner, I'll show you the greenhouse, then we can go in and have sex. I'm on birth control, but I would require you wear a condom. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 780165e | If you stand with one foot in the past and the other foot in the future, Matt, all you do is piss on the present. | P.J. Parrish | ||
| 8d79680 | Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't be disappointed." If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a m.. | perfection fate defeat greed happiness decieved poisened used years-of-struggle towmorrow great-expectations defeated vow captive doomed wanting striving doom vows years dreaming wants put-downs expectations longing | V.C. Andrews | |
| 090c807 | Maybe thats because we take criticism best from those we love and those who love us-Ethan | V.C. Andrews | ||
| bb5898a | We are none of us born into Eden," Doc said reasonably. "world's plenty evil when we get here. Question is, what's the best way to play a bad hand?"..." | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| d22fddb | The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 67c4683 | Every one of them has a story, and every story begins with a man who failed her. A husband who came home from the war, good for nothin' but drink. A father who didn't come home at all, or a stepfather who did. A brother who should have protected her. A beau who promised marriage and left when he got what he wanted, because he wouldn't marry a slut. If a girl like that has lost her way, it's-because some worthless no-account-sonofabitch left.. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 413d714 | Horses are mirrors. They'll show you back whatever you show them. Watch a man with a horse, and you'll see what's inside his own self. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| ba87e34 | You know what I think? Ten percent of any group of human beings are shitheads. Catholics, Jews. Germans, Italians. Pilots, priests. Teachers, doctors, shopkeepers. Ten percent are shitheads. Another ten percent -- salt of the earth! Saints! Give you the shirts off their backs. Most people are in the middle, just trying to get by. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| f301916 | Andre had been telling her an ancient legend of the fall of man into evil. It came about, he said, by the hand of a woman, Eve, who gave man forbidden fruit. "And how was this woman to know that the fruit was forbidden?" Madame Wu had inquired. "An evil spirit, in the shape of a serpent, whispered it to her," Andre had said. "Why to her instead of to the man?" she had inquired. "Because he knew that her mind and her heart were fixed not upo.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 7fc2c12 | Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation. | philosophical the-eternal-wonder pearl-s-buck | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 50493ea | Hunger makes thief of any man. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| b32ad0f | The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life. How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships. | life perspective | Rick Warren | |
| b4aaa31 | When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that's called worry. When you think about God's Word over and over in your mind, that's meditation. If you know how to worry, you already know how to meditate! | Rick Warren | ||
| 2ca8028 | The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention. Love concentrates so intently on another that you forget yourself at that moment. Attention says, "I value you enough to give you my most precious asset -- my time." Whenever you give your time, you are making a sacrifice, and sacrifice is the essence of love. Jesus modeled this: "Be full of love for others, following the example of Christ who love.. | Rick Warren | ||
| beeafed | The spread of BSE [mad cow disease] in Europe has revealed how secret alliances between agribusiness and government can endanger the public health. It has shown how the desire for profit can overrule every other consideration. British agricultural officials were concerned as early as 1987 that eating meat from BSE-infected cattle might pose a risk to human beings. That information was suppressed for years, and the possibility of any health .. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 902383e | And years from now, you may not remember exactly what you ate. But you'll remember who you ate with. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 8f12fcf | And what I think is that when you're completely alone and deep inside yourself with feelings no one else can understand, there really aren't a hundred places to go. It's like if I woke up one day and looked outside and saw purple trees and red grass and green dogs, is there anyone I could tell who would understand? No. There'd be no one. It's exactly like that. He saw purple trees and red grass and green dogs while no one else did.. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 8345028 | Maybe, just maybe, a reader would feel a little less alone in the world. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 60dbbd1 | THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOU When I hold a rose, I see the soft, velvety petals and smile, because tucked between those precious petals is a special gift - the one of a fragrance, pure and sweet. When you hold a rose, you see the thorns along the stem, and you frown because those thorns can bring you pain and cause you to bleed. I see the gift. You see the tragedy. More and more I fear that one of these days someone will hand me a rose.. | tragedy pain poetry fear fragrance rose difference | Lisa Schroeder | |
| a00f94a | They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind. | doubleday legal-thrillers sycamore-row john-grisham grisham | John Grisham | |
| 3f02843 | Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled. | John Grisham | ||
| a47ffef | We all have our little secrets, and as long as they're harmless, who really cares? With time, the secrets often go away and things don't matter anymore. | John Grisham | ||
| 233e3b3 | You wired the kid," Truemann said meekly to no one in particular. "Why not? No crime. You're the FBI, remember. You boys run more wire than AT&T."[Reggie Love]" | humor | John Grisham | |
| 26eb555 | Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her. | John Grisham | ||
| d94753c | Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately. | politics lbj lyndon-b-johnson political-correctness | Robert A. Caro | |
| e2de28f | When something becomes obvious to you," he said, "you immediately think surely someone else is doing this." | Michael Lewis | ||
| 4f2d01a | The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours | discovery tversky innovation productivity | Michael Lewis |