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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0360ac8 | When everything seems to impact everything and there's no easy answer, I ask myself: Will this decision take me closer or farther from you? And then it's so clear. Even if it doesn't make sense at the time. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 80f015e | That's all kids want to know, that you love them. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 7597e6b | The former world leader snarled at me when he found his balance. My face went cold, and I wondered if I'd fare better in the circle with Al. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 6dfd717 | I smirked as I recalled how Jenks's kids took to Ceri, and how Ellasbeth's mother, another pure-blood elf, adored Jenks. I didn't have any such "charmed" feelings for the lump of somnolent rock in the belfry rafters, and as far as I knew, neither did any other witch." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 2f4e64c | Al had tried to kill me. Okay, he'd tried to kill me a couple of times, but this last time I think he'd really meant it. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 8a42c99 | We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 1cb82c3 | I. In the greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace - Radiant palace - reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion - It stood there ! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair. II. Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow; (This - all this - was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts.. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 9402e67 | El humor, los sentimientos, las ideas y las creencias cambian. Las relaciones, las carreras, las reglas e incluso las personas cambian. Los ciclos de nacimiento, vida y muerte en el ambito humano y en el resto de la naturaleza estan regidos por el cambio. Las estaciones, el clima y la evolucion de nuestro planeta son siempre fruto del cambio. | Lou Marinoff | ||
| ecff1ae | We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find." | Annette Curtis Klause | ||
| 9ffa4a2 | When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Phoebe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life. | Annette Curtis Klause | ||
| 285df9c | Are you a god now, Risika, deciding who is to live and who is to die? | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| cc2bdae | Absently, she brushed back some of the hair from her face, and she saw as Jaguar's eyes followed how the long strands slid across her throat. Though his dark skin did not show pallor as clearly as Lord Daryl's had, Turquoise could tell Jaguar had not fed yet, and she recognized the hungry look in his black eyes. Testing, she stood, the movement appearing reluctant. "I"ll leave you to your work if you'd like." He answered the way she had exp.. | turquoise | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | |
| e8ad05d | Kendra] also referred to Tizoc Theron, one of the most powerful mercenaries in all of vampiric existence, as her "Tizzy". The Inquisition was "a dreadful inconvenience," World War II was "a little spat" and the fall of Midnight, the vampiric empire that had reigned for centurie, was "an unfortunate event." | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 3626026 | You may come back as soon as your senses have returned. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 140bae9 | Christopher . . . are these from you?" she asked at lunch, careful to make her tone light as she placed the two picture-poems on the table. Christopher's eyes fell to them, and he smiled. "Yes." He didn't ask if she liked them, and he didn't seem embarrassed. Sarah was flustered, and somewhat surprised by Christopher's easy confidence. Even so, her natural suspicion surfaced. "Why?" "Because," he answered seriously, "you make a good subject.. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 638c751 | He gave, took, told her with every stroke what he hadn't been able to convey with words, communicated what he'd felt from the moment he saw her enter the courtroom, and knew, in that instant, that he'd been blessed and doomed in the same heartbeat. | Sandra Brown | ||
| db8d2b3 | Doesn't it bother your conscience to know that thousands of trees give up their lives just to keep you in reading matter that you dont read? | Sandra Brown | ||
| 5615e8d | Have you talked to Lindsay about me?" "Not really. But the night of that charity thing, when I was driving her home, she told me I should wait an appropriate amount of time out of respect for Paul Wheeler and then ask you out." "She did?" "Yeah. But I told her I was in no rush because I'd already fucked you, so--" "WHAT?" He looked across at her and grinned. "Just kidding." | julie | Sandra Brown | |
| 7b6e80a | The path to perceiving his disorder in all its destruction is littered with the remains of her mind and soul. | Sandra L. Brown | ||
| 74fe1dd | Women often feel ridiculous that they let someone this disordered into their lives and they didn't even recognize the symptoms until she was way in over her head and emotionally destroyed. Welcome to the world of psychopathy where many--even most--don't recognize them either! The main characteristic of this disorder is social behavior and social hiding. Psychopaths blend in as 'normal' and manipulate others into believing them. These chamel.. | Sandra L. Brown | ||
| 9ecac37 | His arms closed around them. While the storm raged outside,he held them protectively. Anna buried her face in one side of his neck,David in the other. His hands cupped the backs of their heads,pressing them closer.Things were hurled against the cellar door with such impetus that David's small fist gripped a handful of his shirt. And he knew that this was what mattered. They mattered. He mattered to them. All the rest of it all the rest of i.. | Sandra Brown | ||
| f5f4474 | He braced himself for happiness like he'd never known in his entire life. | Sandra Brown | ||
| cabe2dc | Lucky Tyler: "Yeah, you're here, looking more like the preacher's wife come calling than an overnight alibi. Who's gonna believe I tumbled you?" The devil in him was kicking up his heels, goading him to say things he knew damn well would rub her the wrong way. But he felt he was justified in being ornery. He didn't particularly like her attitude either. Devon Haines:"What did you expect me to wear? A negligee?" Lucky Tyler: "I----" | Sandra Brown | ||
| 7db00b5 | He gathered a handful of her hair, then wound it around his fist and drew her closer until their faces were inches apart. He hesitated for several heartbeats, then settled his lips against hers, tested the angle, readjusted. He was moderately controlled until he heard a small whimper from her. He backed off, looked down into her eyes, and recognized a desire that equaled his own. Control was abandoned. He covered her face with wild, random,.. | Sandra Brown | ||
| b6dcb31 | Dispensing with the frivolity, he kissed her meaningfully. When at last he pulled away, her troubled expression alarmed him. "What?" "Be careful, Hammond." "No one will know I was here." She shook her head. "Not that." "Then what?" "You may have to put me on trial for my life. Please be careful that you don't make me fall in love with you first." | hammond love love-quotes quote sandra-brown the-alibi trial | Sandra Brown | |
| b0fb568 | Not a formidable presence, except in that madman way that drunks wield, that does-it-look-like-I-give-a-fuck-about-anything? | Nick Flynn | ||
| 7ee6962 | My father's on my radar, but most of the time I shut it off. | Nick Flynn | ||
| 50e47f0 | Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love. The pointless tasks, the myriad sacrifices, the endless small surrenders. We call these men the dancing monkeys. Nick will come home, sweaty and salty and beer-loose from a day at the ballpark,and I'll curl up in his lap, ask him about the game, ask him if his friend Jack had a good time, and he'll say, 'Oh, he came down .. | love marriage | Gillian Flynn | |
| 7f1c87b | Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough. | homeless loneliness sinking-ship | Nick Flynn | |
| fd091f0 | I'm riding beside my best friend, and I tell him, in the same offhand tone my mother had used, That's my grandfather's funeral, and he looks at me as if I'm insane. | Nick Flynn | ||
| c9ff935 | His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time. | Nick Flynn | ||
| 63adbdb | When I was really drunk, I started that stupid business with the bullet in my guts again. I was the only guy at the bar with a bullet in their guts. I kept putting my hand under my jacket, on my stomach and all, to keep the blood from dripping all over the place. I didn't want anybody to know I was even wounded. I was concealing the fact that I was a wounded sonuvabitch.... | Nick Flynn | ||
| b602ef0 | Aside from these infrequent outbursts he possesses the gentle demeanor that sometimes trails the newly sober, that deep acceptance that comes with realizing how badly you'd fucked up your life. | Nick Flynn | ||
| 8717c12 | You know the way Jesus rips open his shirt to show us his heart, all flaming and thorny, | Nick Flynn | ||
| 3f3cc64 | I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 0d9483e | I carry an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 68fb516 | I never worked holidays, because holiday hand jobs are sad for everyone. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 13cd736 | It was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 763296c | It doesn't matter, because I have found my match. It's Nick, laid-back and calm, smart and fun and uncomplicated. Untortured, happy. Nice. Big penis. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| c882dfe | And I didn't realize. I didn't take into account. Just. You know, this is real to you. I mean, I know that, we know that, but we don't at the same time. We really just never will. I don't think. Totally get that. You spend so much time discussing and debating it becomes... But. Well. I'm sorry. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 2cf2519 | I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever. The | Gillian Flynn | ||
| d88bd40 | You always take the extra step that others don't, that's who you are. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 1f2b4e6 | worries were almost physical beings, leechy creatures with latchhooks for fingers, meant to be vanquished immediately. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| d20c3ad | I like rules that make sense, not rules without logic. | Gillian Flynn |