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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2a8b3a8 | Sempre, cazzo, sempre un passo indietro. Sempre un minuto in ritardo. Sempre un sogno avanti. Non voglio che sia cosi anche con Abbi. Sono determinato a non restare dietro di lei, ma nemmeno davanti. La conosco solo da tre settimane e ho ancora fresca nella memoria la prima volta che l'ho vista. Voglio starle accanto, passo dopo passo. | broken-souls ballet | Emma Hart | |
| edd96b1 | if you're having an orgasm, I'm better than I thought. Or you just really love the idea of sucking my cock. | Emma Hart | ||
| 7ce3369 | I'm the best kind of gentleman, darlin'. I'm polite in public and filthy in private." I" | Emma Hart | ||
| 32b13dd | Love it because the only thing that's turned me on in at least two years is battery-operated. Hate it because it's him. Enough said. | Emma Hart | ||
| a8c16e5 | I believed in love stories. In the predictable and the obvious. In the unrealistic and the unpredictable. I loved them. I lived them. They were my passion and my escape. | Emma Hart | ||
| 934f7ae | I purse my lips in aggravation. Of all the places to spend the summer, my parents have chosen here. My mother, the socialite, has chosen to spend her summer a million miles away from the designer boutiques on Oxford Street she covets. My father, the estate agent to the rich and famous, has chosen to spend his summer in a place where the houses barely hit the hundred thousand pound mark. Me? I've chosen to spend my summer at home. But at sev.. | Emma Hart | ||
| 649b36c | Kind of? Are you wearing sunglasses? It looks like it was crapped out by the fucking tooth fairy! | Emma Hart | ||
| 8ab26f0 | Drive my car home, will you? I'm not leaving this house until I'm dragged out by the fuckin' cops. | Emma Hart | ||
| f75d053 | that's all my depression is now. Another battle scar. A silent one that will never be shown, a scar just for me, but a scar all the same. And just like the others, this too will fade. | Emma Hart | ||
| 8eef65f | That's it, guys," I muttered, picking up one of the--undeniably pretty shoes--and looking at it. "That's how we battle sexism. We don't prove them wrong, we show up looking pretty and smile." | Emma Hart | ||
| 4ebd369 | Oh my god, my genitals are slutty. This | Emma Hart | ||
| c10c2e8 | My eyes sting with wetness. She knows me. She actually fucking knows me. | Emma Hart | ||
| ffae8ab | Because I wasn't even angry anymore. A part of me didn't even care that he'd been talking about me because I had been about him. That was human nature--how else were you supposed to figure stuff out? Sometimes you needed a sounding board, and if the thing you needed to sound off on was a person... | Emma Hart | ||
| 5e351c4 | Never go anywhere without your wine sippy cup," Macey theorizes. "You never know when you'll need to whip that baby out. Kind of like a penis." | Emma Hart | ||
| 4f92f68 | I never claimed to be a lady. I was wearing sweatpants and yesterday's t-shirt. I was a real girl. | Emma Hart | ||
| 2c062a6 | It's my job to flirt with people." "Aspen, you're a bartender. Not a hooker." | Emma Hart | ||
| 40aff93 | It's like talking to a potato and expecting it to do algebra. | Emma Hart | ||
| d7021ca | Ah. The life of a twenty-something female looking for love. Disappointmend and embarrassment. | Emma Hart | ||
| e5c7ffe | with a shout of, "Why the fuck didn't you call me, you dumb bitch?" I laugh and extract myself from her arms and, more regrettably, from Drake's warm, large hands at my waist. My arms for once empty of files, I sink into the" | Emma Hart | ||
| 2480c3a | it weren't for all the exercise, I'd have the best damn job this side of the state line. | Emma Hart | ||
| a9c2867 | The truth didn't dawn on me. The truth is an early riser and when I finally blinked awake, it was glaring. | Esther Schor | ||
| 534c09b | The final withdrawal of the Roman army, some fifty years later, left England completely undefended and the population unprotected. Four centuries of occupation, during which citizens and slaves alike were forbidden even to carry arms and all weapons and military equipment were in the hands of the army, had left a population unaccustomed to warfare. That is not to say that the population was necessarily completely defenceless. Everyone must .. | Bryan Sykes | ||
| 19f7c27 | The far more dependable Bede, writing from the monastery at Jarrow, completed his Ecclesiastical History of the English People in 731. It is thanks to him that we are able to differentiate between the three tribes of 'barbarians', namely Saxons, Angles and Jutes. According to Bede, Jutes from the Jutland peninsula of northern Denmark occupied Kent and the Isle of Wight, while Saxons from Saxony in north-west Germany settled in southern Engl.. | Bryan Sykes | ||
| adab5a9 | I will leave you to imagine a world without men, but there is one immediate benefit from their extinction. Adam's curse is permanently lifted. Sexual selection disappears, for the simplest of reasons - there are no longer two sexes. Sperm no longer fights sperm for access to eggs. There are no sperm to do battle, no Y-chromosomes to enslave the feminine. The destructive spiral of greed and ambition fuelled by sexual selection diminishes and.. | Bryan Sykes | ||
| eac6349 | Again starting with an unusual Y-chromosome, they noticed its occurrence in a related set of surnames that were linked to branches of the Ui Neill, the clan that had held the High Kingship at Tara, and had expelled the Dal Riata to Argyll. The Ui Neill equivalent of Somerled was Niall Noigiallach, better known as Niall of the Nine Hostages, who lived in the second half of the fourth century AD. This was a time when the Romans were beginning.. | Bryan Sykes | ||
| a7aeb37 | published in 2001, concentrates on tracing our ancestry using the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA, which also features heavily in The Nature of the Beast. Other books focus on the paternally inherited Y-chromosome and the evolution of sex (Adam's Curse, 2003), on genealogy and the genetic history of Britain and Ireland (Blood of the Isles, 2006) and America (DNA USA, 2012). | Bryan Sykes | ||
| 68f0ff6 | the Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote in AD 98, 'For myself I accept the view that the people of Germany have never been tainted by intermarriage with other peoples and stand out as a nation peculiar, pure and unique of its kind.' Luther himself even managed to concoct a genealogy for the Germans right back to Adam, who for Christians like Luther was the father of the human race. | Bryan Sykes | ||
| cc0c227 | What began as a declaration of religious independence from Rome transformed over the years into a virulent doctrine of Saxon/Teutonic racial superiority over | Bryan Sykes | ||
| daf07a6 | It is a weary lament to lay most acts of violence and aggression, from the strictly local to the truly global, squarely at the feet of men. Yet the association is strong and undeniable | Bryan Sykes | ||
| 14c7809 | Victimspeak is the trigger that permits the unleashing of an emotional and self-righteous response to any perceived slight. Charges of racism and sexism continue to be the nuclear weapons of debate, used to shout down nuanced approaches to complex issues. Victimspeak insists upon moral superiority and moral absolutism and thus tends to put an abrupt end to conversation; the threat of its deployment is usually enough to keep others from even.. | Charles J. Sykes | ||
| 30163c4 | Although victimism can trace its lineage to liberalism, it is not itself liberalism. Nor is it updated Christianity. It militates against ideas of equity, fairness, and process; its natural tone is one of assertion of prerogatives, a demand for reparations. | Charles J. Sykes | ||
| 4293d54 | V]ictimism is an ideology of the ego. But perhaps ideology is too strong a term; victimism can be seen as a generalized cultural impulse to deny personal responsibility and to obsess on the grievances of the insatiable self. It might even be called a habit of mind, but one with substantial institutional support; a reflex so ingrained that its premises are no longer apparent, nor its radical view of human nature even subject to debate. One n.. | Charles J. Sykes | ||
| 468b839 | Perhaps the finest--and certainly the most eloquent--discussion of the dilemma of victimism is Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character, in which he describes the central tragedy of relations between blacks and whites. While one's victim status confers a sense of moral innocence and entitlement, Steele writes, "it is a formula that binds the victim to his victimization by linking his power to his status as a victim". As potent as victim.. | Charles J. Sykes | ||
| 3a8bce8 | A] society that insists on stressing self-expression over self-control generally gets exactly what it deserves. The sulking teenager who insists, "It's not fair!" is not referring to a standard of equity and justice that any ethicist would recognize. He is, instead, giving voice to the vaguely conceived but firmly held conviction that the world in general and his family in particular serve no legitimate function except to supply his immedia.. | Charles J. Sykes | ||
| fcd305a | Menschmik. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 560c60a | FACTS ABOUT UNICORNS | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| d1f3278 | For there is a new place for those who are willing, who are able, who are strong. We are going west. There is, I believe, a new world somewhere waiting. The moon that shines here will shine there, but here the land is broken and there it is whole. | new-world journey | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 8a7141c | and die, die without anyone ever knowing. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 3a9d80d | congregations of owls seemed to be below, along with a hollow that was called a kitchen, from | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| dac8402 | system. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 6ceb515 | One of the vilest secrets of the MacHeaths was that they would purposely maim young pups, hoping to gain a place in the Watch of the Sacred Volcanoes. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| f79300c | Gwynneth had gone to his forge and set | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 4e9ea8e | I'm naked under this dress. Naked as a jaybird," she said pointedly and looked at the matron. "Oh, my! She'll have to be broken!" Mrs. Phillips said and smiled. "Well, dear, we're the rodeo capital of Kansas. Bronco busting is our specialite." She pronounced the word in a foreign sounding way." | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 97dc956 | Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. | Kathryn Lasky |