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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e5fd18e | There's an entirely new world opening up for you right now. A dangerous and occasionally sickening and cruel world, but a world filled with Cajun bounty hunters and lively conversation about peanut butter." "You do make it sound so glamorous, what with the peanut butter and all." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 020d5c6 | It's not about how easy or hard they are to manage. It's about keeping out people who require management. I prefer a drama-free existence. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 384dd3b | I wasn't sure whether he was a grad student, poet, actor, stripper, or brilliant combination of all those things. But the man knew Lord Byron, and he knew words. He knew the rise and fall of sentences, the way to pause, the moment to look up, catch our gazes, smile. He knew emphasis and speed, pacing and clarity. He was a prince of poetry, and he had us mesmerized. Champagne was uncorked and dunked into gleaming silver chalices of ice, the.. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 6eeca17 | Rising tides lift all boats, | Chloe Neill | ||
| 130a3ff | people fear what they don't understand. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 690c5f8 | You are heart and recklessness and fire. The drama just came along for the ride. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 81e1850 | popularity invites criticism, fuels jealousy. It is, for better or worse, human nature. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 4929e82 | You undo me, Merit. Wholly and completely. You don't take me at my word. You challenge me at every opportunity. And that means when I'm with you, I am less than the head of this House . . . and I am more than the head of this House. I am a man." He stroked my cheeks with his thumbs. "In my very, very long life, I need you more than I have ever needed anything." This" | Chloe Neill | ||
| 2c08447 | The thumbs have been pricked, at least proverbially. | Chloe Neill | ||
| d62ca05 | My smart and kind and beautiful girl." He liked to say that, had been saying it for years, and had always put "beautiful" last. Whether it was true or not, he'd tell me it was the least important of the three. "You are smart," he'd say. "You should be kind. And if you are, you'll always be beautiful." | raising-girls smart-before-beautiful | Chloe Neill | |
| 4fdec62 | I knew the point wasn't the victory, but pulling yourself together and crawling your way back. That was life. | survival | Chloe Neill | |
| 555721c | Ditto," Ethan said, a surprising amount of venom in his voice. I bit back a proud smile; he seemed to be adopting a little of my snark." | Chloe Neill | ||
| b5a13a8 | the work of protecting others is in convincing them they need protection in the first place. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 2c3fdd2 | Doubt is part of life," I said. "And so is hope. Life is about taking chances. You just have to hope that the chance is worth the risk." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 33e80a9 | I'm still alive," Gabriel pointed out. "Nick is also still alive, as is Merit. Everybody wave." -- | Chloe Neill | ||
| 1b78b25 | Write down the things you wish to remember, and keep those records close. Secured. It's surprising how much you forget as the years go on. | Chloe Neill | ||
| d09032a | Doubt was a debilitating, frightening thing. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 5c81aa3 | I also used to think only he could trigger the connection between us. Apparently, he'd just been ignoring me. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 5018261 | But when I gave bl0w jobs to my ex, I secretly hated it. What's pleasant about sucking on a stiff, veiny appendage that spurts pee and sperm? | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 254fca6 | The other big con is whether having sex could cause me to more than just like like Guy. But that could happen even if we don't sleep together. You don't even need to date a boy to dream about marrying him. | sex | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 7ef7781 | In my experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they're both. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 840278a | Did things get a lot hooter between you tow? A little stove-top stuffing in the kitchen?" -Amy" | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 1a5161b | A boy sees a girl topless for the first time only once, and the anticipation of the big reveal is really exciting. I feel like I'm a present being unwrapped. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 31b43ea | I realize that I'm far less familiar with my own privates than with Guy's, and I've seen his only twice! I guess that's to be expected, since girls can't really look at ourselves without a reflection, whereas nothing's hidden with boys. It seems unfair, but there's also something neat about it being shrouded in secrecy. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 0d1e54a | I can't be happy going out if it's not . . . going anywhere. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 614606b | There's nothing like feeling like sh_t to kill your libido. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| f21ee43 | In some ways therapists have it harder than surgeons, who can often correct the issue with one operation. There's no quick fix for emotional trauma. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 8cebb53 | Nothing bonds people more than going through sh_t together, right? | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 5819249 | For me, at least, feeling something, even something bad, is better than feeling nothing. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 4995ece | A month ago it would have been my dream just to be in his bedroom watching a movie, but now it's torture because I want so much more. It's like my entire conscious state has been reduced to this toxic blend of hope and uncertainty. I hate that I have to act cool and almost pretend I don't like him when in fact I do, because, God forbid, I come across as desperate for attention or a little clingy, which everyone should know are perfectly nat.. | clinging dating desperation emotions feelings love lust | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 95dda77 | When did you stop caring for me? Certainly not before Thanksgiving. You certainly wouldn't accept a blow job from someone if you were thinking about breaking up with her. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| c14f456 | A]ny history that deals with the efforts of the populace to defend itself from the abuses of wealth and tyranny is people's history . . . A people's history should be not only an account of popular struggle against oppression but an expose of the -people's history that has prevailed among generations of mainstream historians. It should be a critical history about a people's , those who propagated an elitist ideology and a loathing of the .. | people-s-history peoples-history | Michael Parenti | |
| 06ad708 | It has long been presumed that the diversity of constitutional forms makes for an optimal result. In reality, it creates a system of impediments that makes popular reform nearly impossible. As with Polybius and Cicero, so with Aristotle, and so with the framers of the United States Constitution in 1787 . . .--all have been mindful of the leveling threats of democratic forces and the need for a constitutional "mix" that allows only limited .. | democracy | Michael Parenti | |
| b432d3f | Men are seldom struck by incongruities in their appearance any more than their own conduct. | inconsistency self-awareness | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| b0b9db9 | you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| b90b5fb | The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life. | John Piper | ||
| a5c8421 | Aimless, unproductive Christians contradict the creative, purposeful, powerful, merciful God we love. -- John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life | Matt Perman | ||
| 90ec7e2 | The church is not called to be responsible for the way unbelievers run their lives. But we are called to be responsible, by the power of the Spirit and for the glory of Jesus, for the way believers live and the kind of relationships that are cultivated in the fellowship of the church. | John Piper | ||
| c99a4d1 | The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy. | John Piper | ||
| c49050e | This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity." | John Piper | ||
| 7318c08 | How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose . . . ! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place, you who are sweeter than all pleasure, though not to flesh and blood, you who outshine all light, yet are hidden deeper than any secret in our hearts, you who surpass all honor, though not in the eyes of men who see all hono.. | John Piper | ||
| 20a4456 | The question isn't, Do you have a voice? The question is, Do you have a song? If you've turned from your sins and trusted in the finished work of Christ, if you're forgiven and reconciled to God, then you have a song. It's a song of the redeemed, of those who have been rescued from the righteous wrath of God through the cross of Jesus Christ and are now called his friends. Once we were not a people, but now we are the people of God, and our.. | John Piper | ||
| 3ef3996 | At the Lausanne missions gathering in 2010, John Piper made the statement that "we should care about all suffering, especially eternal suffering." He chose the word "care" quite carefully. He didn't want to say we should do something about all suffering, because we can't do something about everything. But we can care." | Kevin DeYoung | ||
| 04381df | Marriage is patterned after Christ's covenant relationship to his redeemed people, the church. And therefore, the highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream. | John Piper |