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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f7af1e6 | I can't let you take the risk. I love you too much." -Schuyler "Then you would rather see me bonded to a women I do not love?" -Jack" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| a45c6e7 | All his gentleness, all his kindness, all the bright shining gorgeousness of his love, he had always given to someone else. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 3298ad8 | I know you would never leave me. I know you would never be able to make a decision, so I decided for you." -Oliver" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6c0eaef | He squeezed her hand one last time. Then Jack was gone and she was alone. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 5c40d90 | They were friends. That's all she ever seemed to have. Friends. She had enough of them. | lost-in-time melissa-de-la-cruz | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| ec27f92 | Jack put a hand on his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you." -- | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6817c16 | And while a pretty face is nice to wake up to, and adoring face is so much more rewarding. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| e7a9205 | All he had to do was love her, and he could do that. -Kingsley | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6b78d3e | The best antidote for fear is knowledge. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 1080261 | If the ghost that haunts the towns of Ypres and Arras and Albert is the staturory British Tommy, slogging with rifle and pack through its ruined streets to this well-documented destiny 'up the line', then the ghost of Boulogne and Etaples and Rouen ought to be a girl. She's called Elsie or Gladys or Dorothy, her ankles are swollen, her feet are aching, her hands reddened and rough. She has little money, no vote, and has almost forgotten wha.. | war world-war-i | Lyn Macdonald | |
| c8d97f4 | Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble. | prose war | Nadeem Aslam | |
| 45be814 | He promised all those things men promise when they are far away and can feel the phone lines stretching too tight, the wires and cables rapidly unraveling from their braids, snapping, recoiling, collapsing the poles along the way. | Salvador Plascencia | ||
| 41f9a6c | She isn't just any woman. She's different." "So every man has said since time immemorial." "Yes, that's true. I've met plenty of women, Mr. Sutton. From a young age, I have had mistresses whose beauty and skills would astound you. Skills they taught to a young man, because I was ever so rich. I also got to know them--courtesans are living, breathing women, you might be surprised to learn. With dreams and ambitions, some longing for a better.. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 3532236 | You have to stop, sweetheart," Fellows said. "Because I love you so much, it's killing me." | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 782476c | You have to understand, and help him, dear. Not repair him. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| fe88aee | You are the beauty I've been seeking all my life. My existence was dark, grim, full of struggle, until you. You are the light that pushes the darkness away. When I'm with you, I can see my way, and I can breathe again. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 2149059 | On her head perched a pillbox hat with an absurd little veil. She'd pulled the dotted veil up out of her eyes, but not completely - it hung lopsidedly, dangling over her right brow. Her dark brown dress was filmed with dust she'd raised, and dust caught on her damp cheeks. One lock of hair had escaped her coiffure, a red snake dancing down her bodice. She was delightfully mussed, and dear God, he wanted her. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 6228c34 | Love is for middle class", Fellows said."The poor can't afford it, and neither can the rich." | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| bf83408 | I don't want to be friends with you, Ainsley Douglas. I want to be your lover. I want to bury myself inside you, I want to find out whether you taste as good all the way down, I want to feel you squeezing me, and I want to hear your cries as you take me inside you. | cameron | Jennifer Ashley | |
| d123de8 | I have a question to ask you." Beth stretched one arm across the back of the seat, hoping she looked provocative. "And what is that, husband?" Ian leaned down, his body hemming her in. His large fists rested on the seat back behind her. "Do I love you?" | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| d6ccc5c | I have woken up inside one of my own memories. I am really here, yet I know I am not. | Emily Barr | ||
| 52595e0 | Although I don't know much about anything, I know that I have a story. I know that it is not over. There are shades and shadows of adventures and people and wild new places. Whatever Paris might turn out to be, and whatever Dr. Epstein is able to do, I want to be there to find out. | life-story people shades shadows wild-new-places | Emily Barr | |
| e487f6b | I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so. | Sara Gruen | ||
| cdb422e | We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 6e5bfe9 | Life. There it was. In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life, and those of us who'd been lucky enough to survive opened our arms wide and embraced it. | Sara Gruen | ||
| a357592 | I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 38e2e5f | Sometimes when you get older--and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently--things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're a part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they're not true--why, then you get offended. | belief challenge history life offended truth | Sara Gruen | |
| c8c627f | I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 0562c0c | You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of. | book jacob laugh life live love marlena quote water-for-elephants | Sara Gruen | |
| 1275791 | What she would need to do in the days before she left and on the morning of her departure was smile, so that they would remember her smiling. * | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 193d05b | Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly. | craft novels writing | Colm Tóibín | |
| 5b28d60 | Q: What's the biggest myth about writing? A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate." [ | deliberate-creation deliberation myths precision urban-myths writing | Colm Tóibín | |
| fffaf49 | When you feel down or weary, play some music. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 7cd0810 | Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time. | Karen Tei Yamashita | ||
| 95e4d2c | You know what it's like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches? | middle-age ostrich tantric-sex | Warren Ellis | |
| aee65ae | Why do I even have to say this? Why do I have to say "Get off the unique and probably alien living plinth that zaps the unwary?" What is wrong with my life that I have to say these things out loud...?" | Warren Ellis | ||
| f15ba0d | TRUTH comes easier when you're nine years old, too. Everything's a lot less complicated. This or that. Us or them. Truth or lie. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 2b75522 | I partnered you with Jim all those years ago because you were complimentary kinds of crazy. You kept each other in check. I need you to not crawl back inside your own skull and watch the world with binoculars from deep cover. | Warren Ellis | ||
| df9ff8e | Tallow walked into Bat and Scarly's office to find Bat slumped on a chair with his head on the workbench, turned away from the door, while Scarly softly sharpened on old straight razor on a worn strop, watching her partner intently. "I don't think he his eyebrows, do you? I mean, they don't serve an immediate or anything," she whispered." | Warren Ellis | ||
| c8e0db9 | Where's the elevator?" Mike asked, sheathing his weapon. Tallow felt a little better telling Mike there wasn't an elevator and watching his face. But then Mike picked up the dolly, boxes and all, with one hand, took the kit bag from Sophie with the other, and started jogging up the stairs with"Third floor, right?" "There," said Scarly, "goes a man who has names for all his muscles." "I was just thinking that," Tallow said. "Serious gym rat... | Warren Ellis | ||
| e969552 | The point is, the only real tools we have are our eyes and our heads. It's not the act of seeing with our eyes alone; it's correctly comprehending what we see. Treating life as an autopsy. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 6251e8a | In order to awaken your best life, it's important that you "die while you are alive." Most people live as if they have all the time in the world. They wish they had more time in their days and yet they waste the time they have. They put off living until some event in the future occurs. In order to awaken to your best life, every day should be lived as if it were your last day on the planet." | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 1f4154f | The more successful you and your organization become, the more humble and devoted to your customers you need to be. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 1ec9ae8 | Sow a character, you reap your destiny. | Robin S. Sharma |