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| 3fee7d6 | And then there are those who relish the power they have over us." Kisten's lips thinned from a past anger, and he dropped his hands from me. "The clever ones who know that our need to be accepted and trusted runs so deep it can be crippling. Those who play upon that, knowing we will do almost anything for that invitation to take the blood we desperately crave. The ones who exalt in the hidden domination a lover can exert, feeling it elevate.. | Kim Harrison | ||
| a034f44 | My future was about to happen. | retelling | Emma Donoghue | |
| 03602ac | He cupped my jaw with his hand. It was warm, and I didn't pull away. "And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love, that trust." His faultless blue eyes never blinked, and I held my breath. "It can be beautiful, Rachel, when there is trust and love. No one is bound. No one loses his or her will. No one becomes less. Both become more than they can be al.. | Kim Harrison | ||
| f3d85d6 | I held my breath as Dali sighed, eyes averted as he balanced what was at stake and what it might cost. Pride was his fulcrum, unfairly shifting the weight so that one side had greater force than the other to make a wrong decision more than possible, but likely. We were going to doom the world to another wave of needless violence because of pride, I thought, | Kim Harrison | ||
| 321b13f | Everything was going too well. Something had to be wrong. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 5097465 | Sheep are treated like sheep, users are used, and those who deserve more receive everything. | Kim Harrison | ||
| f3c6242 | I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff. | Kim Harrison | ||
| af34b5c | As I watched, another pizza went out, the car lurching into the street and speeding away with the quickness that told of a large engine. Pizza drivers have made good money since they successfully lobbied for hazard pay. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 0867a9a | Just tape my ass shut and let me fart out my mouth. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 4cfd44d | Immediately Trent went back to mowing down those cookies, slowing when he realized I was staring at him. What are we up to now? Ten? | Kim Harrison | ||
| a734c1c | I have lots of faith," the fallen angel said as he crouched down and coaxed the dog closer. "I have faith that this is a bad idea. She's not going to belive you. She's going to think we're nuts. She's going to call the police unless she has a record, and if she does she'll run away." | humor | Kim Harrison | |
| 92fa722 | But I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen." Pixy dust sifted over us, and my skin burned. "Don't piss me off." Behind" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 236b8e0 | Ticked, I looked across the street to the Starbucks catering to uptown snits who needed sixty different ways to brew a bean in order to not be happy with any of them. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 8f139f2 | What in Tink's knickers do you think you're doing! | Kim Harrison | ||
| adc3087 | You cry, you get angry, then you do something about it. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 194afc8 | Three g's, and an r: Get in, get the info, get out, relocate. | Kim Harrison | ||
| a997d5b | Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination. And with Trent, Al, Ivy, and Jenks beside me, we had all three. I always had. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 430988c | You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer. | Kim Harrison | ||
| d383fe5 | Here's a real man!" I said. "It's been pretty transparent all along that other people's opinions about these things wouldn't be enough for you." | Allan Bloom | ||
| 9ae05c5 | It's not easy to go through, you happy man," I said. "Even more than what we went through before, it admits of many doubts. For, it could be doubted that the things said are possible; and, even if, in the best possible conditions, they could come into being, that they would be what is best will also be doubted. So that is why there's a certain hestitation about getting involved in it, for fear that the argument might seem to be a prayer, my.. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 8614b1b | Utopianism is, as Plato taught us at the outset, the fire with which we must play because it is the only way we can find out what we are. We need to criticize false understandings of Utopia, but the easy way out provided by realism is deadly. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 772cdd6 | I have just spoken of that morbid condition of the auditory nerve which rendered all music intolerable to the sufferer, with the exception of certain effects of stringed instruments. It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances. But the fervid facility of his impromptus could not be so accounted for. They must have been.. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 8aab48b | But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic | friendship love | Allan Bloom | |
| 1c1768c | It tried to rescue sex from Christian original sin and to recover the union of body and soule of Platonic eros while guaranteeing the reciprocity missing from the Platonic understanding of love and friendship.. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 56ddf41 | According to Allan Bloom the whole world is divided between the followers of John Locke and Karl Marx-between liberalism and socialism.42 While the configuration of human ideological loyalties is surely more complex than this statement suggests, and despite the fact that this ideological cleavage has diminished considerably since 1989, it does point to an important truth about the contemporary political debate, namely, that its very paramet.. | David T. Koyzis | ||
| 47cb623 | There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 6da2f21 | One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 99f0b43 | It's not easy to go through, you happy man," I said. "Even more than what we went through before, it admits of many doubts. For, it could be doubted that the things said are possible; and, even if, in the best possible conditions, they could come into being, that they would be what is best will also be doubted. So that is why there's a certain hestitation about getting involved in it, for fear that the argument might seem to be a prayer, my.. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 09655ec | A veces estaria bien volver a hacerse pequeno y a veces grande, igual que Alicia. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| a4634fd | A big thing can be simply the sum of small things. | Lou Marinoff | ||
| 6f484ed | Si tienes el coraje suficiente para recuperar la inocencia y dejar volar la imaginacion, tambien tu tendras al dragon como amigo | Lou Marinoff | ||
| 197ca7d | Like Mom, Zoe thought-like Mom used to. And that's where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poetry suffused with twilight and questions. It's not even good poetry, she thought. I don't have talent, it's her. I should be the one ill; she has so much to offer, so much life. "You're a dark one," her mother said sometimes with amused wonder. "You're a mystery." | cancer dying-mother emotion greif lonliness loss mother pain sadness | Annette Curtis Klause | |
| bee9efe | Forever is too long to live in fear | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 6f7e428 | Humans are often this way. They go about their lives, constantly working, complaining of boredom one minute and overwork the next. They pause only to observe the niceties of society, greeting each other with 'Good morning' while their minds are somewhere else completely. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 0622be2 | I fed on one of the true monsters--one of the many 'witch hunters' who interrogated and jailed the accused, seeking guilt where there was none. How humans can do such things to their fellows is beyond me. They torture, main and kill their own kind, saying it is God's will. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 32a4357 | I fought; I fought for the immortal soul the preachers had taught me to believe in. I do not know whether I ever believed in it--I had never seen God, and He had never spoken to me--but I fought for it anyway, and I fought for Alexander. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| a135032 | I looked to Rei, wondering if his vague answer to Betsy meant he might let me slip away downstairs, but A'isha had once again engaged him, hooking one of the many scarves she wore around his waist in an attempt to draw him into the dance. The crow looked at it with shock. A'isha plucked the scarf away with a flourish. "No need to be shy, little crow," A'isha said. "If the gods didn't want people to admire you, they wouldn't have made you .. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| af7bd54 | Let Stone be your God and you will find God in the Stone. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| b593b29 | Chesterton never achieves a great poem because his poems are compilations of statements not intensely felt but only intensely meant. | poetry | Hugh Kenner | |
| bcc3f47 | Fine. He had let her indulge in her hobby, while he'd indulged in his, and right now his was clenching her soft thighs against his pumping hips. He gave one last push and came. He wasn't sure Alice did, but she was better than Emory at faking it. | Sandra Brown | ||
| a3e1485 | He took a long time to answer. "I asked which of her brothers had fathered the baby. She told me it could have been either." | Sandra Brown | ||
| cd78ae8 | Povecheto khora bikha si namerili udobni opravdaniia i bikha se ot'rsili ot vsiakakvi ugrizeniia. A tia se boreshe da izchisti greshkite ot minaloto i nai-napred svoite - bez da se krie ot s'vestta si, bez da igrae falshivi roli, bez da se teshi s's samozabludi. | Sandra Brown | ||
| 707ea83 | He made a costly error in judgement and sent an entire regiment into a virtual slaughterhouse. It happens frequently. Officers risk their troops' lives for the sake of a promotion. Not my father. He valued the life of every man under his command, from his officers to the humblest fresh recruit. When he realized what had happened, he was devastated. He couldn't ever forget that his error had cost the lives of so many men, created so many wid.. | Sandra Brown | ||
| da35f69 | Ah,temos um mas. Voce devia ter sido critica literaria. Eles atiram-nos flores e depois dao-nos um pontape nos tomates." pag.130" | cat-delanay humor | Sandra Brown |