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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5fc7dc3 | No obstante, ninguno de estos individuos carecia por completo de ego, pero todos sabian como suprimirlo, como canalizarlo y como contenerlo cuando era importante. Ellos eran grandes y, sin embargo, humildes. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 78ad6a6 | Solo cuando estamos libres del ego y su influencia podemos alcanzar realmente nuestro mayor potencial. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cc402d9 | Algunos aprenden humildad. Otros eligen el ego. Algunos estan preparados para las vicisitudes del destino, tanto las positivas como las negativas. Otros no. ?Cual de los dos elige ser? ?Quien sera? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ea634de | desapego es una especie de antidoto natural contra el ego. Es facil sentirse emocionalmente comprometido y enamorado del trabajo propio. Todos los narcisistas pueden hacerlo. Lo raro no es el talento ni la capacidad, y ni siquiera la seguridad en uno mismo, sino la humildad, la laboriosidad y la conciencia de si mismo. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c6c3c5b | we don't need to make decisions that force us to continue to work and work and work and drift further from study and contemplation in order to get more money to pay for the things we don't need. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| dfc017b | Your people back in Pennsylvania--what are they like?" Caleb finished his work and turned to face Lily, his arms folded. Because the barn was shadowy and he was wearing that blasted campaign hat of his she could barely see his face. "Decent, hardworking, ordinary enough." "Rich?" Lily inquired. "Yes, you could say that." Lily sighed. Marrying the major might eliminate her current dilemma, but once the back-east Hallidays got a good look at .. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| cf1fe19 | Our children are going to be remarkably stubborn," he commented as they started down the main street of town. Lily tried to ignore the avid stares of passers-by. "We aren't going to have any children," she said. Some instinct caused her to lie. "My--my monthly arrived today." Caleb fell silent, and in a sidelong glance Lily saw his disappointment. She laid a hand on his arm but could not. bring herself to admit the truth. If the major belie.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| fb3fe77 | He was a man. He should have acted more like one - thought about how all that self-indulgence might affect his daughter, if not his wife. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| dd7e7eb | will your daughter be here? | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 6147d2a | Why won't you give up this silly idea of homesteading?" Gertrude went on. Her tone of voice was moderate, but her blue eyes were snapping. "I can't help thinking you're just being stubborn, Lily. Caleb is well able to provide for you, I assure you. He comes from one of the finest families in Pennsylvania--I've known the Hallidays a long time." Lily looked down at the floor for a moment, gathering her courage. "You wouldn't understand," she .. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| c74bca7 | Cause I'm not a stray cat or something you found by the side of the road." Tully grinned. "You mean like Kyle?" Tully leaned over and said, "His daddy don't like to talk about it, but he picked Kyle up over on Jessup Road hidin' under a car." Kyle wanted to be mad, but he couldn't. Not with Emma around. "Yeah. And your momma told me she got you from the pound. Had you fixed there, too." | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| c9d96ed | How did it start?" he asked finally, turning away from her to stand facing the snapping fire on his hearth. Even the cloth of his shirt didn't hide the uncompromising rigidity of his back and shoulder muscles. Lily looked around the shadowy room, stalling for time. If she told the truth, she knew Caleb would do something rash and probably ruin his career in the process, yet she didn't see where she had any real choice. "There was a man insi.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| b8f71c1 | I want to practice my marksmanship," she said. "Touch those rifles and I'll tan your hide," Caleb warned. Lily squared her shoulders. "I'll just have to do it on my own, I guess. Though I daresay there are plenty of soldiers on this post who would be glad to help me." Caleb had poured himself a drink, and the look in his eyes was deadly. "I'll personally horsewhip the man who tries," he said in a dangerous undertone. Lily" | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| ef30520 | Yet in all the years she'd stared at others, Emma had never seen so many good-looking people in one place before. The nurse...gorgeous. The doctor...gorgeous and so damn sweet. And that deputy guy...well, he went beyond gorgeous, but he was anything but sweet. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 52ecff7 | caught up in causes and concerns and plans for the future and forget what truly mattered--loving and being loved, in the present moment. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| e0a8686 | Lily stepped back to admit him, her gaze catching on the chocolates again. It was Caleb's aim to make her look at him just the way she was looking at that red satin box. He extended the candy and knew by the pleasure in her eyes that she'd received few gifts in her life. And for one insensible, fevered moment Caleb wanted to give her everything. He wanted to drag the world to her feet and make it bow. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| c74e373 | I see he gave you a ring," Rupert remarked, glancing at the twinkling diamond on Lily's finger. "I'm only wearing it because it won't come off." "Why did you put it on in the first place?" Lily sighed. "I didn't--Caleb did." "I see. We've come full circle, Lily--back to my original question, which you so neatly evaded. Do you love Caleb Halliday?" Lily lowered her head. "Yes," she answered weakly. "I think about him all the time, and I get .. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| e7e0e6e | Caleb rode up just as she was trying to submerge herself in an ice-cold creek no more than six inches deep. Calmly he hung his hat on the horn of his saddle, then he put his hands on his hips, an infuriating grin spreading across his face. "Ants?" he inquired cordially. He was at once the first and last person Lily would have wanted to see. She sat up in the creek, her hair dripping, her arms covering her breasts, ants banished at last. Her.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 91714e2 | Were you following me?" she asked, hugging her knees and watching her supper cook. "Yes," Caleb answered in his direct way. He sat down across from Lily, and the firelight did a primitive dance over his features. "I wanted to see how you could get by on your own." He didn't need to tell Lily that she'd failed the test miserably; she knew, and her pride had been stripped as bare as the supper rabbit. "I thought I could reach Tylerville, at l.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 523b7a3 | He caught her left hand in his and lifted it so that the diamond sparkled in the firelight. "I see you haven't cut off your finger yet." Lily smiled sleepily. "That would have hurt too much." | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| df78ebe | Insanity, the saying went, was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 59b502a | His arm slipped around her shoulders, and she was too tired, she told herself, to shrug it off. She turned her head to look up at him. "Thank you," she said softly. "For what?" Caleb asked, watching her face with an expression of tenderness that made her throat constrict. "For fixing that rabbit," Lily replied, "and for not yelling at me or giving me a lecture on my foolhardy ways." Caleb kissed her forehead lightly, the way one might kiss .. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| cab24be | room. Angus cleared his throat, and Rafe and Kade stared down at their plates, all signs of their previous amusement | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| b627cde | Caleb stood on the Tibbet porch, gazing after Lily through the thin veil of rain sliding down from the porch roof. He'd been employing the tactics the colonel had recommended, and he'd liked the results--until he'd noticed Lily leaving the house with Corporal Pierce. When he'd seen her take that green kid's arm and look up at him as though he'd just cured all the ills of humanity in a single sentence, Caleb had wanted to vault over the porc.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 7515d57 | After taking a shell from her apron pocket and putting it carefully into the weapon's chamber, she pointed the shotgun away from the house and Dancer, who was tethered nearby, and drew back on the trigger. There was a deafening explosion, and Lily was flung backwards onto the ground, the butt of the shotgun striking her square in the stomach as she fell. It sure wasn't anything like using a .22 caliber to hunt grouse. "Damnation!" she shout.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 3023c7c | It's wonderful to see you falling in love at last, Caleb. I was beginning to think I'd never dance at your wedding." Caleb went to the porch swing and sat down beside her, taking her hand in his and giving her knuckles a brief kiss. He didn't know if he was in love, but he wasn't about to spoil Gertrude's delight. "If I can't have you," he teased, "I'll have to settle." "She'll still be giving you trouble when you're ninety, you know. Lily'.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| cf762f1 | You're not going anywhere," he breathed. And even though Lily knew it was fear for her safety and not cruelty that drove him, she was annoyed. "Let me go, Caleb." His grip tightened. "You'll spend the night here," he said. Lily's eyes widened. "Caleb, it's bad enough that I'm alone with you under this roof right now. Can you imagine what people will say if I stay till morning?" "I don't give a damn what they say," Caleb replied, and Lily kn.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 016617a | If you ever do that again," he managed, in a mock-threatening tone of voice, "I swear to God I'll sign over everything I own and let you lead me around like a lap dog." Lily circled one of his taut nipples with the tip of her finger. "Your warning has been duly noted--sir." Caleb laughed. "Vixen." She" | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| e5b39cb | Lily came suddenly and violently awake a few hours later, and she stared up at Caleb with wide eyes as he held her in place on the bed, her hands pressed into the pillows. "Who was it?" he demanded. Lily knew he was asking who had attacked her in her cottage the night of the fire, knew he wouldn't wait any longer to be told. Still she hesitated, not to protect Judd, but because she feared what could happen to Caleb if he took his revenge. ".. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| fee667d | I rebel -- therefore we exist. | Albert Camus | ||
| 5792ba8 | I have another problem." Caleb's grin was at once endearing and obnoxious. "You're naked in my bed, and you don't own a stitch of clothing in the world," he agreed. "You needn't look so pleased about it!" Lily snapped, drawing up her knees and wrapping her arms around them. She was very careful not to let the covers slip away from her breasts. "Not only that," Caleb went on, as though she hadn't spoken, "but the whole fort is talking about .. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| fa9433e | I have another problem." Caleb's grin was at once endearing and obnoxious. "You're naked in my bed, and you don't own a stitch of clothing in the world," he agreed. "You needn't look so pleased about it!" Lily snapped, drawing up her knees and wrapping her arms around them. She was very careful not to let the covers slip away from her breasts. "Not only that," Caleb went on, as though she hadn't spoken, "but the whole fort is talking about .. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 4778b67 | Hello, Major," Lily said, and she went right on scrubbing. Caleb approached. "Put down those long Johns and look at me, Lily. I've got something to give you." She glared resentfully at his perfectly pressed coat, thinking of his plans to escort Sandra back to Tylerville. "Who washed your clothes?" she demanded. "Your competition," he answered easily. "After all, if I brought my laundry to you, it would be like paying you, wouldn't it? And I.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| d86922f | Lily, if you don't stop that washing and look at me, I swear I'll throw you over my shoulder and carry you inside like a sack of grain." Because" | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| faf26c4 | Couldn't you stay?" she whispered. "Couldn't someone else go on that cattle drive?" He shook his head, then bent to kiss her lightly on the mouth. "Be ready," he told her, when it was over, "because when I get home, I plan to take you wherever I find you." With that, he gave Emma a little pat on the bottom, put his hat on, and went whistling down the walk to the gate. Emma" | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| aef79f0 | You're so much smarter than I am, Caleb. So much stronger and so much more persuasive. If I married you, I wouldn't be myself for very long. I'd soon become the person you want me to be." He sat back in his chair, his arms folded across his chest. "I wouldn't change you for the world," he protested quietly. "Yes, you would," Lily insisted. "You'd make me into a china doll, overseeing tea parties and embroidering samplers and gazing at you i.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 980a78d | If you permit such a barbarous thing to happen, Caleb Halliday, I vow that I'll never speak to you again." He pushed back his chair, and Lily's hand in the process, to stand. "If you have your way, we'll be apart soon anyway. What do I have to lose?" "Your honor," Lily argued. He crossed the room to take his campaign hat from one of the pegs beside the kitchen door. "When it comes to letting another man lay his hands on you, I have no honor.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| d3827ca | When it comes to letting another man lay his hands on you, I have no honor," he said bluntly. She" | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| ceef948 | Well, I won't be here when you get back." He grinned at her, but there was no fondness in the expression, no light in his eyes. "You won't get far, will you?" he asked, and Lily saw mockery in the curve of his lips and the set of his shoulders. "I'll wager you don't want to face even Gertrude without my wedding band on your finger." He" | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 3959825 | He ached, not just to have her beneath him, but to have her beside him. He wanted to tell her why he needed to go home and face Joss, why he was tired of the army, why he wanted sons and daughters. He wanted her to hold him in her arms and tell him that everything would be all right, that they would work out all their differences and learn to live together in peace. It | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 382e3ea | Wilbur looked patently horrified. "Surely you wouldn't consider living on Suds Row," he said. Then he lowered his voice. "If the major won't marry you, I will." Lily was now exasperated as well as winded. "Of course I don't mean to live on the Row," she answered, ignoring Wilbur's whispered offer to make an honest woman of her." | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| c05dd84 | There's no telling what the major'll have to say when he hears about this, though." "Nothing," Lily said confidently. "Caleb's under Colonel Tibbet's command, same as you are." "He's going to tan your hide, that's what he's going to do," Velvet fretted, fidgeting at Lily's side. "He wouldn't dare." Wilbur cleared his throat. "Don't be too sure of it. The major isn't afraid of anybody or anything. He probably wouldn't think twice about wallo.. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 04eaee4 | If I were you," she countered, "I'd get the major's weddin' ring on my finger, and his baby in my belly, and I'd forget this whole stupid idea of homesteadin'!" Insulted," | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| d441205 | What is it?" he asked quietly, his eyes full of concern. "What have you been doing that's so terrible?" A great shudder of anguish moved through Velvet. Once he learned the truth Hank would never forgive her, but there had been enough running away, and she couldn't bring herself to lie. Not to this man. She accepted the handkerchief he offered and dried her face. "Things was hard after Pa and Eldon died," she managed to say, mopping at her .. | Linda Lael Miller |