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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7b68916 | How are babies made?" Visibly startled, Jordan turned and opened his mouth, as if he intended to speak, but for some reason no words came out. At first Alexandra was puzzled by his involuntary silence, but then understanding dawned. She shook her head and sighed with sympathy for their mutual plight. " You don't know either, do you?" | innocence naivete | Judith McNaught | |
| f2f0ad2 | Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| daee74b | As we shall see, Burke stewed about the episode and awaited a strategic moment to retaliate. He and other southerners perhaps also took umbrage at Hamilton's frank statement that patriotic operations in the south had been hampered "by a numerous body of slaves bound by all the laws of injured humanity to hate their masters."60 Hamilton was admitting that masters deserved to be hated by their slaves and had behaved logically in sympathizing .. | Ron Chernow | ||
| b82d9e1 | Hamilton seemed to spark controversy at every turn. At the time of his July Fourth oration, New York still had not selected its first two senators. Under the Constitution, this decision fell to state legislatures, insuring that local mandarins would have a disproportionate say in the matter. | Ron Chernow | ||
| d74dac4 | When one is pretending the entire body revolts. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 4fda28a | Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 3e8a1c1 | My presence scared them. I reminded them of the one thing in the world we want most to forget. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 3e4488d | But for most of the world- for most of Vermont- the Cape Abenaki meltdown is just another bit of old news. Tsunamis. School shootings. Syria. We watch it, we read about it, and then we move on. As a species, we're either very resilient or super callous. I don't know which. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 4fd2e03 | I meant," Jenny said, her eyes filled with ire, plunking her hands on her slim hips, "if I were your daughter, and your sworn enemy kidnapped me, how would you want me to behave?" | Judith McNaught | ||
| 694990a | I love it when the snowflakes are flying like butterflies. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 81919b7 | She talks and talks because whenever she is silent she finds herself looking at him and her breath grows a little short. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| aef2619 | Did you know that a lot of Emily Dickinson's poems can be sung to the theme from Gilligan's Island? Not kidding, this is totally legit. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 0b66f5a | Solitude may rust your words. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 0a6e5e2 | In the felicitous words of one early Burr biographer, "The Clintons had power, the Livingstons had numbers, and the Schuylers had Hamilton." | Ron Chernow | ||
| cd79767 | When the sun is strong and the air is warm, however, we shout greetings to one another down the lengths of long driveways and from the windows of our cars as we pass; we hold our heads high as we walk, staring up into the sky with our eyes shut and our faces widened by smiles. We breathe in deeply the summery air, but this sort of inhalation doesn't result in a sigh; it's a precursor to a purr, or the moans one might make during a backrub. .. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 454d76d | gentlemen's clubs--now there was a ridiculous euphemism | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| ac9f821 | Nay. I wanted only to be loved by those whom I love; to be looked upon and not found wanting. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 9c170d1 | And so I invented a kingdom of dreams where I could accomplish great and daring deeds to make it happen. | Judith McNaught | ||
| b0b2861 | So you're positive the killer is a man." "Yes, I think my gender can take responsibility for this one. Women don't cut out other women's hearts." "We can." | hearts women | Chris Bohjalian | |
| 3c19ec2 | Fletcher Free Library. (Supposedly, | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 4a3531d | You know the type--will give herself to the first nobleman in a uniform who comes calling with a couple of eggs and a piece of rat meat." "You're selling yourself short." "I've just sold myself for rat meat," she said, and she turned from him and lit the stove." | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 892d1ec | She did it because it was, like so much else that made her happy, dangerous and self-destructive and just a little bit sick. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| bcc860e | She needed water, but it would take a tsunami to avert the hangover that awaited. She needed Advil, but she feared the red pills that she popped like M&M's at moments like this were distant. They were in the medicine bag in her own hotel room. In her own hotel. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 9b077f3 | Hamilton induced Philip Schuyler to renege on his pledged support for Duane in favor of King. | Ron Chernow | ||
| ec14880 | During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins. | ruins war | Chris Bohjalian | |
| 7b91f04 | Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| da3b9db | There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something; something that defies logic, upsets your plans and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications and just go for it." - Judith McNaught" | Ella Dominguez | ||
| ff676d2 | Fate had already done everything it could to torment her. | Judith McNaught | ||
| c220e03 | I feel like hell...I ache all over, but mostly inside. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 9ade855 | Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| ea566d3 | I wanted you to have the best pears in New York and I wanted to be the man to buy them for you. | Judith McNaught | ||
| d4bd7d3 | To accomplish that, I created Victoria Seaton, a young American who was | Judith McNaught | ||
| 7978fbd | If you will kiss me | Judith McNaught | ||
| 1d3f5e0 | The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 3a24304 | Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| c0058ae | Sweeping her up into her arms, Jenny hugged her tightly. "Everybody" | Judith McNaught | ||
| d30892f | Bazi insanlar aski kalplerinde,bazilariysa butun benliklerinde hissederler... | meredith | Judith McNaught | |
| a19aac3 | Victoria lifted her chin. "In my country, Mr. Fielding, it is considered ill-bred to argue at the table." Her veiled reprimand filled him with amusement. "How very inconvenient for you," he remarked softly." -- | Judith McNaught | ||
| 7b88e4b | and gains at the gaming tables spread from White's | Judith McNaught | ||
| 78ef345 | Dying over an argument isn't honor, it's a waste of a man's life. A man volunteers to die for a cause he believes in, or to protect others he cares about. Any other reason is nothing more than stupidity." ~Ian Thornton" | Judith McNaught | ||
| cbc1d19 | I can't sleep, because I'm afraid I'll start dreaming... | Judith McNaught | ||
| 585bf0a | What is it about you that demolishes my mind? | Judith McNaught | ||
| e8cba88 | Despite all her diligent efforts to remake herself into a model of propriety, when it come to falling in love she'd reverted to from and fallen in love with a man who was a renegade, a black sheep, a daring, cynical, tough social outcast who in some ways reminded her of the boys she'd known on the Chicago streets. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 8cdaf64 | Whitney, My Love is the story of Clayton Westmoreland, the Ninth Duke of Claymore. Until You features Stephen Westmoreland's | Judith McNaught |