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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 229b29b | On cree les circonstances de notre propre vie. | Blake Pierce | ||
| 3eb8875 | original one he got when they moved. But oddly, he was hazy about | Blake Pierce | ||
| 0c45d9e | curb | Blake Pierce | ||
| f60da90 | but in private county leagues. | Blake Pierce | ||
| ad43852 | repot | Blake Pierce | ||
| 0d7c7d3 | Darren just kissed me. As many times as I've imagined him kissing me, the shock of it as a reality sends a quake through my entire body. "I don't believe it." I straighten and stare at his chin, his cheeks, his sharp jawline. He almost gets knocked over by a wave that slams in the chest. "What?" "You shaved! How did I not see that earlier?" "Finally she notices!" He laughs. "I went through great pains to smooth out this face for you. Even .. | Kristin Rae | ||
| af2374a | You knew this was going to happen, didn't you?" He smirks, resting his hands on my waist. "Hoped." My cheeks ache from smiling, but I don't care. I don't care about anything but Darren and him kissing me again. I trace the smooth skin around his mouth. "You better be careful," he says, kissing the tip of my finger with each word. "I've been known to bite." We laugh and he tightens his hold at my waist and pulls me against him, pressing our .. | Kristin Rae | ||
| 3377f5f | I get it now. This is what kissing is really supposed to be. Any others before were merely run-throughs with understudies. Darren is a leading man. | Kristin Rae | ||
| b96689a | Darren spreads out the beach mats and drops his backpack on top of one. As soon as he crosses his arms and grips the hem of his shirt with both hands, I know what's going to happen. I should look away but I can't. Abs reveal themselves. One. At. A time. His chest isn't exactly lacking for hair, but given the amount on his face and head, I expected that. Not that I actively thought of what his chest might look like. Not often, anyway. As he .. | Kristin Rae | ||
| 8c317ff | I should probably head back for Luca's birthday dinner. They want me to lead the 'Happy Birthday' song to him in English for some reason." "Oh, right. Yeah, it's getting late." He lets go of my hand and reaches for his T-shirt. I watch his abs disappear, then pull my tank top over my head. "I'm sure you could come if you want." He frowns. "Won't Bruno be there?" "It's his brother, he'd better be." "Uh, I'll pass." I grab his shirt near the .. | Kristin Rae | ||
| 8d3167d | Do you want me to get your back for you?" Cringe. "No, I'm fine." "Okay, then could you get mine? I don't really want the striped look you're going for. A little too trendy for me." He laughs, snapping the lid shut on his sunscreen bottle. He shakes it hard to force the lotion to the end, every muscle in his body tensing, releasing, tensing, releasing. My jaw goes slack. He asked me a question. What was it? The cliche come to life? I hesita.. | Kristin Rae | ||
| e1bcbbd | The short pieces of his black hair are spiked out every which way. The poor lighting from the singular bulb on the ceiling over the shower exaggerates the dark circles under his eyes. He looks rough. And why I find it incredibly hot is beyond me. "Late night?" I ask. I'm staring. I shouldn't stare. Biting back a smirk at his disheveledness, I pull the band out of my hair, pretending that I need to redo my ponytail. Really, I just need a dis.. | Kristin Rae | ||
| f404ff7 | Taking the high road is always the best way to go. You feel better about yourself, and the world feels better about you. | Tim Gunn | ||
| 24137c2 | His little gray swim bottoms are probably smaller than mine, potbelly hanging over the top of them. I lean toward Darren and whisper, "Take a picture of that. Five euros." We both look back at the man just as he sheds his bottoms, revealing, well, everything. "Oh, sick ," I screech, shrinking down and looking for something to hide under. I've seen a few sets of breasts on the beach so far--which is a little uncomfortable, though Darren doe.. | Kristin Rae | ||
| dd9d4df | Darren, this is Chiara, the friend I was telling you about. Chiara, this is my--this is Darren." I don't know what I was going to stick in there after Friend? Can you be friends with someone if you don't even know their last name? Darren finally unfreezes, extending his hand, which Chiara takes in both of hers and squeezes. "Darren Ledger." Ledger. Darren Ledger. Pippa Ledger. Darren and Pippa Ledger. STOP!" | Kristin Rae | ||
| 250ca5c | Chiara," Darren finally says. "Everything okay?" Greasy Guy looks Darren up and down with narrowed eyes and spits out what I'm guessing is a question. Darren responds, calmly, in Italian. It's the most I've ever heard him say in Italian, and I can't even tell if his accent's right, but it's seriously hot. They go back and forth a few times, Chiara chiming in once in a while. I pick out a word here and there, but I mostly make up what I thin.. | Kristin Rae | ||
| aa22bab | Do you want to be a professor too?" He shrugs. "Maybe one day. I'd like to travel more first though, work on dig sites in places like Greece or Central America. Ancient civilizations are buried everywhere. It's, like, no matter where you walk, you never know what could be under your feet. I want a job that lets me see all the things I want to see before I get stuck behind a desk." "I know what you mean. I can't wait to see the world and doc.. | Kristin Rae | ||
| 04004e7 | So tell me about you. Who is Pippa, in the broad scheme of things?" He winks. I return the smile. "Well, I'm an only child, born and raised in Chicago--" "Ah, Chicago. That's the accent." "I told you before, I don't have an accent." "To ears you don't." He laughs. "But it's definitely there to the rest of us." "Is that a bad thing?" "No," he says. "It's cute." Oh, I might die. A boy used the word "cute." And when describing something abou.. | Kristin Rae | ||
| 9792cbe | You really didn't see me trying to push him away?" "You did?" Darren scratches along his jawline. "I guess I was too angry to notice that." "You were?" So it was more than awkwardness. He was angry. The butterflies are back, flapping their stupid little wings in my chest. He nods and looks away from me, eyes focused past me to the sky as it wanes into a deep-blue blanket dotted with pulsing stars. Bells from a church ring out in the distanc.. | Kristin Rae | ||
| 1e007e6 | ASSIGNMENT NUMERO NOVE: THE PERFECT MAN We talk about boys a lot. Especially who's hot, who's not, and why. But if the movie actors of old have taught us anything, it's that good looks go away. The perfect man needs more than a cute face and big biceps, because even those muscles will one day shrivel. But good character, hopefully, will not. List five attributes of the perfect man: 1. loyal 2. trustworthy 3. smart 4. funny 5. real | Kristin Rae | ||
| 2353b91 | Quietly as possible, I unzip my backpack at the foot of my bed and feel around for my journal and the tiny book light. Keeping on my stomach and facing the end of my bed, I clip the light onto the cover of the journal and turn to my next assignment. In my periphery I see Darren's feet move. I quickly press the button on my book light, straining to listen as he wrestles with his sheets, presumably to get comfy. "What are you doing?" he whisp.. | Kristin Rae | ||
| 646d252 | Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive. | B. F. Skinner | ||
| a446d41 | The young man visiting the archeological site on Skraeling Island is the same fellow who at the end of the book encounters a stranger on the road to Port Famine, but also not. | Barry Lopez | ||
| 0d1bff9 | It is, after all, not man but the universe that is subtle. | Barry Lopez | ||
| 0908676 | The first time I understood this I was talking with a man who had killed some thirty-odd wolves himself from a plane, alone, and flown hunters who had killed almost four hundred more. As he described with his hands the movement of the plane, the tack of its approach, his body began to lean into the movement and he shook his head as if to say no words could tell it. For him the thing was not the killing; it was that moment when the blast of .. | Barry Lopez | ||
| 4e7522f | By the 1920's, the wolves had been all but eliminated from the continental United States, except for a small population in northern Minnesota and Michigan's upper peninsula. It was a campaign unprecedented in its scope and thoroughness. One species almost completely whipped out another. The impetus for the killing was clear enough, but as Barry Lopez asked in "Of Wolves and Men", his seminal meditation on the fraught relationship between th.. | hunting north-america wolf | Nate Blakeslee | |
| 677fd62 | Its only boundary was the horizon, the sill of the sky, separating what the eye could see from what the mind might imagine. | Barry Lopez | ||
| 82867eb | There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light. | Barry Lopez | ||
| d823946 | Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. | Anne Bradstreet | ||
| fcb4730 | physicists were almost all either first-born sons or eldest sons. Theoretical physicists averaged the highest verbal IQ's among all scientists studied, clustering around 170, almost 20 percent higher than the experimentalists.524 Theoreticians also averaged the highest spatial IQ's, experimentalists ranking second. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| b0c2a4f | We were reasonably strong, but I mean we were, after all, thinkers. So Dean Pegram again looked around and said that seems to be a job a little bit beyond your feeble strength, but there is a football squad at Columbia that contains a dozen or so of very husky boys who take jobs by the hour just to carry them through college. 1541 Why don't you hire them? And it was a marvelous idea; it was really a pleasure for once to direct the work of t.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| f643577 | On June 12, 1775 the Rhode Island Assembly commissioned armed ships to fight the British Navy. That Fall on October 13, 1775 the Second Continual Congress established the United States Navy marking this date as the Navy's official birthday. The first United States naval vessel was the USS Ganges, built in Philadelphia as a merchant vessel. She was bought by the US Navy, fitted out with 24 guns for a crew of 220 men, and commissioned on 24 .. | naval-history | Captain Hank Bracker | |
| d99cc7a | Man-made death became epidemic in the twentieth century because increasingly efficient killing technologies made the extreme exercise of national sovereignty pathological. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 2fb11db | It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. Robert Oppenheimer It | Richard Rhodes | ||
| f13b862 | Richard Rhodes's exceptionally readable The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the place to start. This sweeping chronicle of the difficult and sobering history of the endeavor called the Manhattan Project is marked by Rhodes's insightful studies of the complicated people who were most involved in the creation of the bomb, from Niels Bohr to Robert Oppenheimer. Rhodes followed this book with Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. | Nancy Pearl | ||
| 333dc79 | does not even try to give us complete information about the events around us--it gives information about the correlations between | Richard Rhodes | ||
| d8edb98 | Back in the eighties, the journalist Richard Rhodes nailed the place with just two words: Cupcake Land. To the irritation of local leaders, the nickname has stuck. Cupcake Land is a metropolis built entirely according to the developer's plan, without the interference of angry proles or ethnic pols as in nearby Kansas City. Cupcake Land encourages no culture but that which increases property values; supports no learning but that which burnis.. | Thomas Frank | ||
| d97b382 | Violent actors act violently not because they are mentally ill or come from violent subcultures or are brain damaged or have low self-esteem but because they have different phantom communities from the rest of us. That difference is the reason they attach different, violent meanings to their social experiences. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 15689af | The crash program for building the "super" dwarfed even the Manhattan Project. The AEC nearly tripled in size, growing from a handful of sites and 55,000 employees to 142,000 employees spread across more than a score of sites. It would devour nearly 7 percent of the nation's entire electrical output, and, according to historian Richard Rhodes, exceed in capital investment the combined market capitalization of Bethlehem Steel, U.S. Steel, Al.. | Garrett M. Graff | ||
| f50ce3f | Now we are all sons of bitches.' | Richard Rhodes | ||
| fdd7813 | mid-June 1915, "the wind was favourable and we discharged a very poisonous gas, a mixture of chlorine and phosgene, against the [Russian] enemy lines. . . .344 Not a single shot was fired. . . . The attack was a complete success."345" -- | Richard Rhodes | ||
| ea8564b | Dr. Clara Immerwahr Haber committed suicide the same night. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 92e6f52 | Man is not satisfied with a happy idyllic life: he has the need to fight and to encounter danger. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| d73b2b7 | an excessive and unproductive deference of British physics students to their seniors. He therefore founded a club, the | Richard Rhodes |