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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 910b427 | You don't do violence, Francesca, not unless it's self-defense or in defense of our family. I won't have that on your soul. You're going to be my wife. The mother of my children. You're about love and softness. Not killing. Never that | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | Christine Feehan | |
| 6496d2b | There you go, getting all protective on me. You're worried about me, aren't you?" His voice practically purred at her, a sensual mixture of possession, desire and something else - affection. "Dio, bambino, I love that." | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | Christine Feehan | |
| 5b28c13 | She looked down onto his face. So gorgeous. It wasn't just his beautiful, very masculine features, it was the way he was inside. "I'm in love with you. There isn't anything that you can tell me that is going to change that." | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 5442281 | Since I've had to endure your ugliness my entire life, I'm immune to whatever venom you choose to spew. However, and you'd better hear me, Eloisa, I will not tolerate you doing the same thing to my woman. She's my choice. She's always going to be my choice. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 7ad1edf | Grace had filled those lonely places, replacing them with laughter and conversation. She'd given him the purpose he needed there in his home to maintain his balance in a world of stark duty. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 8a5f7a7 | She was...salvation. Everything good. She lit up a room just as she lit up his life. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| f19572b | Il mio piccola bella amore, I can't change the past as much as I'd like to," he said softly. "I can only tell you that you have my future. Only you." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 90e8e86 | The team leader, Dr. Joe Spagnola, gave him a quick look as well. It pretty much said, "You maggot, if you leave one of my men behind, don't ever go to sleep because I'll be coming for you." At least Barry interpreted the look that way." | fiction ghostwalker-series ghostwalkers paranormal-romance romance-series romantic-suspense team teamwork | Christine Feehan | |
| 10e6bb0 | Every soldier needs a commander and it looks like I'm yours. You're a soldier. You need a commander. What makes you the boss? I'm bigger than you are, Draden said, his voice just a little arrogant. Shylah refrained from answering. What was the point? He was bigger. | ghostwalker-series ghostwalkers paranormal-romance romance-series romantic-suspense | Christine Feehan | |
| 6a10269 | The gate, which had been securely locked, stood open in welcome. Everything seemed to be welcoming him. A sense of peace began to steal into his heart. A part of him wanted to sit on one of the benches and soak in the atmosphere. | paranormal romance suspense | Christine Feehan | |
| dbc1c5a | Mikhail didn't flinch away from the blade. His black eyes snapped open, blazing with power. Slovensky fell backward, scrambling away on all fours to crouch against the far wall. Fumbling in his coat, he jerked out the gun and held it pointed at Mikhail. The ground rolled almost gently, seemed to swell so that the concrete floor bulged, then cracked. Slovensky grabbed for the wall behind him to steady himself and lost the gun in the process.. | gregori mikhail pain-in-the-neck | Christine Feehan | |
| 2117911 | He'd always had his family, his brothers and sister, and they had formed a unit so strong, when he was younger, he hadn't thought he would ever need anyone else. Loneliness taught him otherwise. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| f57d5ea | She took away sorrow and anger, replacing it with acceptance and love. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 8e4d4e5 | The rider uses a technique, breaking the neck cleanly, so there is no suffering. That is why it is important not to allow it to be personal if at all possible. You always want the visit to be about justice, not revenge. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| d224cb3 | Are you absolutely certain that Grace is yours? She's not just a woman who would be suitable because she carries the genetic code we need? Francesca is my world. Your woman needs to be yours." "Grace is my Francesca, " Vittorio assured." | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 19a0ab7 | Well, Sara." He said it very softly. "Are you going to save me?" | Christine Feehan | ||
| 617eaaa | You have to commit to us. Just like you're part of Torpedo Ink, I have to be part of you. You have to be all in. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 6513a6b | You're so beautiful, Dax. Your heart. Your soul. I don't think I could ever find a better man. | Christine Feehan | ||
| e3dd716 | It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack. Arthur | T.H. White | ||
| 167cdd6 | my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn't introspect, doesn't exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on. These types often consider themselves the "victims" of some large plot, a bad boss, or bad weather." | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 17b7043 | Ought to be havin' a first-rate eddication, at their age. When I was their age I was doin' all this Latin and stuff | T.H. White | ||
| 3191f38 | for few people can hate so bitterly and so self-righteously as the members of a ruling caste which is being dispossessed. | T.H. White | ||
| c8a9ea9 | Paris itself was barely controlled by France--no more than the Rio slums called favelas are currently ruled by the Brazilian central state. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| dd7052b | The defender of the dogmas of modern finance and efficient markets started a fund that took advantage of market inefficiencies! It is as if the Pope converted to Islam. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 95eddcf | Ginger-Dijon Glazed Pork Tenderloin Prep time: 10 minutes * Cook time: 35 minutes Dijon mustard, reduced-fat sour cream, and fresh ginger create a flavorful coating for this tender pork roast. Buy an extra pork loin and slice for lunch the next day. 1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon reduced-fat sour cream 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme Salt 1 1/2 pounds pork loin 1 large garlic clove, thinly sliced 1 1/2.. | Arthur Agatston | ||
| 1984f62 | The two active ingredients to look for in omega-3 or fish-oil supplements are EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). | Arthur Agatston | ||
| 780b871 | On the South Beach Diet, you can eat lean cuts of beef, lamb, and pork; skinless white meat chicken and turkey; game meats; fish and shellfish; soy products; beans and other legumes; eggs; and fat-free and low-fat dairy products. | Arthur Agatston | ||
| c2948d8 | Until we're dead, we Service people, the world will always be in danger of another war. We had too good a time in the last one. We'll none of us come out into the open and admit it. It might be better for us if we did. [...] For our generation, the war years were the best time of our lives, not because they were war years but because we were young. The best years of our lives happened to be war years. Everyone looks back at the time when th.. | youth | Nevil Shute | |
| 0aa485e | You could have done something with newspapers. We didn't do it. No nation did, because we were all too silly. We liked our newspapers with pictures of beach girls and headlines about cases of indecent assault, and no Government was wise enough to stop us having them that way. But something might have been done with newspapers, if we'd been wise enough. | media sex-sells | Nevil Shute | |
| 8110553 | When you and I are dead, and all the rest of us who served in the last war, in all the countries," she said, "there'll be a chance of world peace. Not till then." | Nevil Shute | ||
| 4577260 | The surviving human beings there could do nothing but wait for the end to come. They chose different ways to live out their final days. That was the plot.** It was a dark movie offering no hope of salvation. (Though, watching it, Aomame reconfirmed her belief that everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.) ** On the Beach, the 1959 movie, director: Stanley Kramer, writer: John Paxton, starring: Gregory Pe.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 5242a6e | People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. they don't know what it was like, not being in a camp. | fiction world-war-2 | Nevil Shute | |
| 4b551ea | He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 340801d | All those cities, all those fields and farms, with nobody, and nothing left alive. Just nothing there. I simply can't take it in. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 50214de | it was so beautiful', he said. 'the Three Pagodas Pass must be one of the loveliest places in the world. you've got this broad valley with the river running down it, and the jungle forest, and the mountains....we used to sit by the river and watch the sun setting behind the mountains, sometimes, and say what a marvellous place it would be to come to for a holiday. however terrible a prison camp may be, it makes a difference if its beautiful.. | fiction world-war-2 | Nevil Shute | |
| 8e6c776 | You don't feel any different as you get older. Only, you can't do so much. | Nevil Shute | ||
| dff89fd | An American, a soldier of fortune by profession. Wherever there is trouble in the world the Dwights of all nations foregather. There are not very many of them, thirty or forty perhaps, and they are all supremely competent men because the others have been killed. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 211c3cd | We are not like that, we engineers. We are men of understanding and of education, on whom is laid responsibility that men may travel in these aeroplanes as safely as if they were sitting by the well in the cool of the evening. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 9ab14a0 | Half a thou too small," he said. "The difference between Right and Wrong. Half a thou bigger, and it'ld be Right. As it is, it's Wrong, and you can't cheat about it." He smiled again. "Too bad when God gives you the mind of an Inspector, isn't it?" | Nevil Shute | ||
| 5c78e5a | When a good man employs others he becomes a slave to the job, for the job is the guarantee for the security of many men. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 5f4fb61 | Many evils spring from power," he said. "Even from the power to do good. All power corrupts, and the intention to do good has little influence on the corruption. Either my words will last after me and be believed by men, or else they won't. Yet if one thing were required to kill them certainly, it is that my words should be spread after my death by the power of money. No teaching could survive a campaign of paid advertising." | Nevil Shute | ||
| 36cfd34 | I still think Connie was a human man, a very, very good one--but a man. I have been wrong in my judgments many times before; if now I am ignorant and blind, I'm sorry, but it's no new thing. If that should be the case though, it means that I have had great privileges in my life, perhaps more so than any man alive today. Because it means that on the fields and farms of England, on the airstrips of the desert and the jungle, in the hangars of.. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 0f1d751 | I want to drink hard liquor, as you call it, before lunch. I've got a mouth like the bottom of the parrot's cage. You wouldn't want me to throw a screaming fit in front of all your officers. | humor | Nevil Shute | |
| ea5b2a5 | Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape. | Nevil Shute |