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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 97dc96b | We don't make any sense, nothing about us fits, but we're real. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 9dc1842 | I couldn't tell you why the carnival lured me with its sticky fingers and bright, whirling colors, except to say that it was , and that excited me. I'd only read about 'different' in books, never experienced it for myself. Perhaps it was a case of be careful what you wish for. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| d7455d0 | You still love him." "I love the boy he was. I could love the man, too. I don't know, and that's why I have to find out." "Oh, Aimee," she said sadly, pulling me into a tight hug. "Please be careful." "Too late," I whispered." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 19e918a | I cocked my head on one side. "Is that what we have? A relationship?" Kes looked taken aback. "Well, yeah." Then he hesitated, "What would you call it?" "Well, at the moment, I'd say it's two old friends catching a ride together to go see the carnival." Kes nodded. "Okay," he said. "Works for me." "Just so you know," I sniffed, "that's the wrong answer. We're totally in a relationship." Kes grinned. "Good. So we're both clear on that." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 207a78a | Come on, Aimee! If it's not Kes hauling you off to have his wicked way with you, then you're giving him these scorching looks across the bonfire. Hell, it makes me want to go take a cold shower, which is interesting seeing as you're a girl and I'm gay. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 28f6569 | One mistake. That's all it took. One fuckin', stupid, childish, dumb mistake. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 82f6813 | I wondered if he'd appreciate my help: maybe if I attacked her with a pool chair and beat her into putty, she'd be distracted enough to leave him alone. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| e37f41b | I don't give a rat's ass what you think, David! I'm tired of you bullying me, putting me down, patronizing me, treating me like some sort of simpleton. I was supposed to be a in this relationship - that's what I signed up for. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| a206315 | If he lays one finger on you, I'll fucking crucify him! | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 56d23e3 | The light was a sheen of white across my eyelids and I shifted in the bed, feeling a trickle of sweat down my back. I was too warm and the rattle of the generator outside was an annoyance. And then I felt Kes's breath on my neck as he spoke. "I've dreamed of this so many times, I can't believe it's real--that you're real. You were always there, just out of reach, and I'd wake up and find my bed empty. But now you're here." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 7a8d378 | Beautiful woman, I want to make love to you," he said, huskily. "God, I want you so bad right now." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 39010c7 | People will see you with me," I spat out, thumping the steering wheel in frustration. "Mmm, yeah," she said, her voice far away." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 8e92795 | You know what they'll think: Muscles Are Required Intelligence Not Essential. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 8e71dfa | You are," I said, quietly. "You are gorgeous. Any guy would be crazy not to think so." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 9c433c4 | You are the best thing that's ever happened to me ... and I am not lettin' you go. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 4d028a4 | Now that's a sight for sore eyes, Sebastian. Maybe I should just leave you here: the hotel maids might appreciate that. Or, better still, maybe I'll take a photograph of you on my phone. Dont worry, I wont post it on the internet, it'll just be my screen saver. | funny | Jane Harvey-Berrick | |
| 8c2957e | I felt as if I'd met my soulmate, but he was always being taken away from me. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| f02b5be | You're not alone now," she said." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 659a8b4 | Wow, wounded by sarcasm at close range. The Brits sure fight dirty. Next it'll be harsh language. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 1a3a92e | I'd been dazzled by him my whole life. And it wasn't fair. For either of us. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| b5f2624 | Jesus, Miles. You're scruffy, your hair's a mess, your eyebrows need plucking, your teeth are obviously British, you're gonna have to start working out and damn it, stop chewing your nails! | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 811f658 | There are many low points in a woman's life, but when a bloke who's been within a hair's breadth of getting his hand down your knickers decides that he's rather watch a children's sci-fi programme made with puppets fifty years ago, you can't get much lower. Just saying. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| ecca594 | Everyone knows that if you break the chocolate first, the calories fall out. Right? | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 4ce8c36 | Oh you'd better believe it, baby! I'd ride you till you passed out from exhaustion, feed you a bacon sandwich, hose you down and start again. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| ae7b58a | I don't deserve you," he said, softly. "I don't deserve to feel anythin' other than shit for what I've done." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 791663c | He reached out and brushed his thumb along my bottom lip. "You're my girl, Aimee. No one else." -- | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 7eefc33 | Maybe magic happens when you let it. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 8287a16 | One track mind," I muttered. He shook his head. "I'm eating, taking and thinking about fucking - that's called multitasking." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 412935f | His element was the air around him. I had roots and he had wings - could they ever work together? | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| c90981d | I'm so fucking happy you're here," he said, resting his forehead against mine. "I'm not just here," I whispered. "I'm home." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 5651acd | Kes grinned, his eyes sliding to mine. "Jealous?" I huffed a little, but then admitted the truth. "Yes, I'm jealous." His gaze softened. "You don't need to be," he said softly. "Sorcha's just a friend." "That's what you call me," I said, stupid tears making my eyes prickle. Kes shook his head slowly. "No, you're my girl." ... He reached out and brushed his thumb along my bottom lip. "You're my girl, Aimee. No one else." Then he leaned.. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 769d0b8 | I've dreamed of this so many times, I can't believe it's real--that you're real. You were always there, just out of reach, and I'd wake up and find my bed empty. But now you're here. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| d269df3 | What he's looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn't want that because it is all around him. Every step's an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant. | surroundings the-moment the-time-is-now wherever-you-go-there-you-are zen | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| b717357 | I turn my head from side to side. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 07ba793 | In my mind, when I look at these fields, I say to her, "See?...See?" and I think she does. I hope later she will see and feel a thing about these prairies I have given up talking to others about; a thing that exists here because everything else does not and can be noticed because other things are absent. She seems so depressed sometimes by the monotony and boredom of her city life, I thought maybe in this endless grass and wind she would se.. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| ba33b4f | I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 053e5e6 | Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 39c760d | You never gain something but that you lose something." And now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth--but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of .. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 037c96c | You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling. | care consciousness distractions excellence habits music observations quality work-environment | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 3f9e2f6 | whole community of millions of living things living out their lives in a kind of benign continuum. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 95d3943 | Classical understanding is concerned with the piles and the basis for sorting and interrelating them. Romantic understanding is directed toward the handful of sand before the sorting begins. Both are valid ways of looking at the world although irreconcilable with each other. What has become an urgent necessity is a way of looking at the world that does violence to neither of these two kinds of understanding and unites them into one. Such an.. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 748a870 | I make some jokes about it, but they're not funny and just add to the depression. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| b44aff1 | It's sometimes argued that there's no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and oceans with ever larger quantities of debris, that destroys the dignity of individuals by subjecting them to a forced mechanized existence can hardly be called an advance over the simpler hunting and gathering and agricultural existence of prehistoric times. But this argument, though romantically appeali.. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 1573764 | What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question "What is best?," | Robert M. Pirsig |