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| 8cdb186 | I ate lunch with Keira today. Second day in a row," I told him, then winced at how stupid that sounded. Rider's grin turned into a full smile, transforming his handsome face into the kind of masculine beauty that was like a punch to the chest. "That's really good, Mallory." His voice dropped as he reached over, curving his hand over my arm. There was a near electric rush from his touch. "I'm proud of you. For real." Giddiness surrounded my .. | keira mallory-dodge praise proud rider-stark understand | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 4d4a3f3 | Defended myself." I mimicked him, bopping my head back and forth." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e0b893a | It's a sign of the times, man. It'll probably be on some Alpha's Facebook wall within the hour." Alphas" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| da42760 | What does... mean?" Rider blinked and his lips slowly parted. Surprise splashed across his face. Yeah, I'd spoken in front of Hector. I felt sort of giddy. Might've only been a handful of words, but it was the first time I spoke to him. It was the first time I'd spoken to anyone in front of Rider since we crossed paths again. He'd never been around when Jayden had. Biting down on my lip to stop from grinning, I dared a peek at Hector. His .. | hector-luna mallory-dodge rider-stark spanish talk translate | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 8872cad | You're on crack if you think I'm removing a single stitch of clothing." "Like" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d989856 | Mire alrededor a la gente que abarrotaba el enorme salon de la escuela. Era como si todos los Guardias y Centinelas estuviesen alli, de pie bajo las estatuas de las nueve musas. Las nueve olimpicas, hijas de Zeus y Mnemosine, o quien fuese con la que se lio. ?Quien lo sabia a ciencia cierta? El dios se movia bastante. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 950c8cb | Suddenly Tink was right in front of my face, causing me to jerk back. "I know you're mad at me and you probably want to slice and dice me up and wear my skin as a new bracelet." I glanced around. "Um. That's not exactly what I want to do." Hope widened his eyes. "But I kind of want to flush you down a toilet," I amended. He gasped. "I'd get stuck! And these pipes are old. How would you even do that? I'm not a goldfish." I rolled my eyes." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 7e8f900 | I lost myself the moment I found you. Roth | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f77985c | I don't think he meant to kiss me," I said finally. "What? Did he slip and fall on your mouth? Those things are known to happen." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 60306bb | I was thinking--" "That's what I smelled!" I stared at him. "You know, the smell of wheels burning as they try to turn over . . ." He drifted up toward the ceiling and rolled his eyes. "Never mind. Carry on." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 65f4d53 | Entonces me di cuenta de que Deacon seguia mirando hacia delante. Segui su mirada. Estaba mirando a Luke. Y Luke le estaba mirando a el. De una forma tan intensa como a veces miraba yo a... Aiden. Volvi a mirar rapidamente a Deacon. No podia verle los ojos, pero tenia las orejas sonrosadas. Despues de un rato, demasiado para ser un tio mirando a otro por casualidad, Deacon se echo hacia atras. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 90becb7 | I'm supposed to meet Ainsley for lunch and then...we're hanging out." He was silent for a moment and then shoved his hands into his pockets. "Cool." His gaze flipped up and over me. I turned slightly, spying Hector's car coming down the center aisle. "I'd like to meet her." Wait. What? He wanted to meet Ainsley? Rider bit down on his lower lip. "So, you know, I'm sort of inviting myself along." He really wanted to meet my best friend? His h.. | awkward hoping invite mallory-dodge meet rider-stark | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 441d641 | With apologies to the folks in Redmond, I'll end on another Microsoft joke because it makes the point well (a point that applies everywhere, not just at Microsoft): A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when a malfunction disabled all of its electronic navigation and communications equipment. The clouds were so thick that the pilot couldn't tell where he was. Finally, the pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held u.. | William Poundstone | ||
| 690eb00 | Imagine being beaten up every day for something you didn't do and yet, when it's over, you keep on smiling. That's what every day of Donald's life was like. His death was a small death. No one mourned his passing; they merely agreed it was for the best that he be forgotten as quickly as possible, since his was a life misspent. | suicide | John William Tuohy | |
| f2594a7 | If you knew what I knew, seen what I've seen, you wouldn't be so quick to pull the plow. | Rita Williams-Garcia | ||
| a62a003 | I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, By his best arrow, with the golden head, By the simplicity of Venus' doves, By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves, And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen, When the false Trojan under sail was seen,-- By all the vows that ever men have broke, In number more than ever women spoke,-- | William Shakespeare | ||
| e0a38eb | The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ. It is the story at the very heart of modern history. It is perhaps the most challenging riddle historians have to solve. And we should solve it not merely to satisfy our curiosity. For it is only by identifying the true causes of Western ascendancy that we can hope to estimate with any degree of accuracy the.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 6a93207 | The result is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history: that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the individual has ended up homogenizing humanity. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| c78d23d | I, the British Empire began as a primarily economic phenomenon, its growth powered by commerce and consumerism. The demand for sugar drew merchants tot he carribean. British were not the first Empire builders. They were IMERIAL IMMITATORS! | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 1f27ae8 | The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign people. Unfortunately, they took up empire-building at precisely the moment when the cost of imperialism began to exceed the benefits. | distinction originality | Niall Ferguson | |
| 8783f8e | we shall quickly find ourselves about as important to the algorithms as animals currently are to us. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 08ef404 | In a time of chaos, it is the micro-manager who ascends | Niall Ferguson | ||
| b6da437 | simple point is that institutions are to humans what hives are to bees. They are the structures within which we organize ourselves as groups. You know when you are inside one, just as a bee knows when it is in the hive. Institutions have boundaries, often walls. And, crucially, they have rules. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 4cc91bf | Because of preferential attachment, most social networks are profoundly inegalitarian. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 6e7a1d8 | So I was a punk out of frustration. But I became a Tory out of hope. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 69ae54a | In part, he knew, this happiness was fostered by German law, which forbade cruelty to animals and punished violators with prison, and here Dodd found deepest irony. "At a time when hundreds of men have been put to death without trial or any sort of evidence of guilt, and when the population literally trembles with fear, animals have rights guaranteed them which men and women cannot think of expecting." He added, "One might easily wish he we.. | Erik Larson | ||
| 08e59f4 | That winter the son's need for his father's love was again disappointed. On November 10, three weeks before his twelfth birthday, he wrote to him, 'You never came to see me on Sunday when you were in Brighton.' This was the second time his father had been in Brighton but had not gone to see him. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 045e782 | ten thousand Soviet evacuees had been drowned off Tallinn, and twenty-three thousand Hungarian Jews murdered at Kamenets Podolsk, in the same three day period. But these were far from the only deaths in those few August days. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| c99a66d | The woman crawled on the earth, took hold of his boot and pleaded for mercy. But the soldier took the boy and hit him with his head against the wall, once, twice, smashed him against the wall. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| fd0d1b1 | In one day alone, at the end of December, as a result of frostbite, more than fourteen thousand German soldiers had been forced to submit to amputation. Not all of them survived the operation. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| daaa6d6 | I have wasted strength, time, opportunities. Alone -- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 2133d11 | All the English flowers came from Shakespeare. I don't know what we did before his time. The Secret Places of the Heart | H.G. Wells | ||
| 1f32799 | I am just a human being -- solid, needing food and drink, needing covering too -- But I'm invisible. You see? Invisible. Simple idea. Invisible. | H.G. Wells | ||
| fc30ee5 | Why not?' said the Time Traveller. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 53d3f08 | All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over. | time-travel | H.G. Wells | |
| fc85176 | In another place was a vast array of idols--Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy. | museum time-travel | H. G. Wells | |
| c87f936 | Why did every human concern clog itself up in a tangle of routines, formalities, disciplines, imperatives? Why couldn't one be free? Really free? Guarding one's freedom, wasn't freedom at all. Why couldn't one win one's freedom for good and all, and get on with life? | order routine | H.G. Wells | |
| 56a8373 | The essence of the Revolution is to abolish the attainment of unqualified power of man over man either by vote-getting, money-pressure or crude terror. The Revolution repudiates profit or terror altogether as methods of human intercourse. It turns the attention of men and women back from a frantic and futile struggle for the means of power, a struggle against our primary social instincts, to an innate urgency to make and to a beneficial com.. | money power revolution society terror | H.G. Wells | |
| 6942256 | Man is now a new animal, a new and different animal; he can jump a hundred miles, see through brick walls, bombard atoms, analyse the stars, set about his business with the strength of a million horses. And so forth and so on. Yes. Yes. But all the same he goes on behaving like the weak little needy ape he used to be. He grabs, snarls, quarrels, fears, stampedes, and plays in his immense powder magazine until he seems likely to blow up the .. | humans man mankind | H.G. Wells | |
| 8d6a4de | Well, anyhow, the practical outcome of all these damn democratic ideas, is that men of our quality -- yes, damn it! we have a quality -- excuse themselves from the hard and thankless service they owe -- not to the crowd, Dick, but to the race. (Much good it will do is to shirk like that in the long run.) We will not presume, we say, no. We shrug our shoulders and leave the geese, the hungry sheep, the born followers, call them what you will.. | humanity humans society | H.G. Wells | |
| 5d7e4dd | I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental rest. No man has any right to be as stupid as educated, Liberal men have been about that foolish affair at Geneva. Men who have any leisure, any gifts, any resources, have no right to stifle their consciences with that degree of imposture. | ignorance stupidity | H.G. Wells | |
| eb696c4 | He extended his hand: It seemed to meet something in mid-air, and he drew it back with a sharp exclamation. "I wish you'd keep your fingers out of my eye," said the aerial voice, in a tone of savage expostulation." -- | H.G. Wells | ||
| bb914af | To us, warmth and likeability mean safety and trust--because if someone's going to hurt us, we'll see shifty eyes and feel a certain coldness, we're sure. That is, until we meet the privately brutal behavior of a devastatingly warm person. | H.G. Beverly | ||
| aec8cff | Fine hospitality," said I, "to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you." | H.G. Wells |