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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5742c25 | My wife is in the heroin business and I am not on good terms with her,' Devendra said. Jayshree, who was also upset with her mother's attempts to keep her away from her lover and force her into the drug trade, also decided to stand witness against her. Papamani was finally convicted and put behind bars in 2004. It was ironic that the two people for whom Papamani earned turned against her. While she had so many followers, none of them were i.. | Hussain S. Zaidi | ||
| 87a52b3 | Her only defence for shifting religious loyalties was that she was very spiritually inclined. | Hussain S. Zaidi | ||
| a6a88b9 | Jenabai knew how much it must have cost Mastan to admit his helplessness in resolving the issue. He was always conscious of his public image--perhaps because he was defensive about his lack of education--and hated to appear anything but wise. | Hussain S. Zaidi | ||
| b63e889 | that he knew of the Mumbai police's reputation | S. Hussain Zaidi | ||
| 1087aa8 | information linking him to the Sara-Sahara Shopping Complex. Finally, it was then, four | S. Hussain Zaidi | ||
| 1cc5980 | perhaps Dawood's status as a fugitive and an outlaw beyond the reach of the Indian legal system suits many back home in India. Empires built with his money would collapse and many skeletons would tumble out of the closet if he was ever brought back home. The powers that be would rather have Dawood Ibrahim stuck in Pakistan. And so the cult of Dawood will be perpetuated. | S. Hussain Zaidi | ||
| e987302 | As journalists the first lesson we learnt was not to sit on judgment but raise questions. | Hussain S. Zaidi | ||
| a885c6b | Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly. | Åsne Seierstad | ||
| dba9d8c | Why did you want children when you knew there was a war?' Mustafa | Åsne Seierstad | ||
| 851a5e6 | What went wrong? Well, comrades, when the American investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, it was not just a bank going broke, it was a political ideology going bankrupt. The failure of market liberalism. It ended decades of naive, uncritical faith in the market looking after itself. It does not! | Åsne Seierstad | ||
| 2b72a4b | Gerd called life 'existing minute by minute'. Every single minute felt like a battle. Time went on but life had stopped. | Åsne Seierstad | ||
| a378bcd | Sadiq pondered the nature of war. Everyone was sure that they had the right to the land and the others should be forced to leave. That they had God on their side while the others were in league with the devil. Everyone believed they owned the truth, and everyone seemed thirsty for blood. | Åsne Seierstad | ||
| bd315c1 | Through the book, I want to give something back to the community from which it sprang. My royalties for this book in Norway are being donated in full to the 'En av oss' (One of Us) foundation. The foundation's statutes allow for the money to be distributed to a wide range of causes nationally and internationally, in the areas of development, education, sport, culture and the environment. I have chosen to let those who contributed most to th.. | Åsne Seierstad | ||
| fd1600d | A society gets the graffiti it deserves,' commented one criminologist on the street galleries that grew ever scruffier. | Åsne Seierstad | ||
| cd98324 | Nothing great has great beginnings. | Beginnings | ||
| 8f66033 | it is now clear to me that behind a facade of amiable bumbling, you are extremely well informed about your fellow spies. In fact, I suspect you know more about them than the ships you're supposed to be spying on. | Clive Cussler | ||
| 83f3f95 | research shows that people who regularly seek advice and help from knowledgeable colleagues are actually rated more favorably by supervisors than those who never seek advice and help. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 1dcc885 | by asking for help, you're creating an opportunity for them to express their values and feel valued. By asking for a five-minute favor, you impose a relatively small burden--and if you ask a matcher, you can count on having an opportunity to reciprocate. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 9949444 | Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. | Beginnings | ||
| 8c8707a | Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from the truth were burst by the Brontes or elaborately untied by George Eliot.... Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her." G.K. CHESTERTON" | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| d2d0151 | Think Gone with the Wind as an illustration of historical romance. Nora Roberts' The Obsession, the love story between a woman abused when she was young and a good-hearted mechanic with the added mystery of an outside obsession running through it, is a great example of romantic suspense, and Jennifer Crusie's Welcome to Temptation, described as "blackmail, adultery, murder, vehicular abuse of a corpse, and slightly perverse but excellent se.. | Jessica Lourey | ||
| fd6da6c | Then she turned away before anybody caught her slack-jawed with admiration. He was not the one, that was her DNA talking, looking for a high-class sperm donor. Every woman in the room with a working ovary probably looked at him and thought, This one. Well, biology was not destiny. The amount of damage somebody that beautiful could do to a woman like her was too much to contemplate. She took another drink to cushion the thought, and said, "H.. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 5795774 | Later, she couldn't remember whether she'd had time to stop, or if Donald's trying to ruin her potatoes the way he'd ruined everything else had made her temporarily insane. Whatever the reason, she stabbed him with the sharp, narrow, old-fashioned fork and hit a vein in the back of his hand. Donald screamed, and she shoved his hand away so he wouldn't get blood on her potatoes. "I'm so sorry, Donald," she said and took another bite." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| df583cc | Okay, why did we have to leave?" Bonnie said when they were in Liza's convertible and Min was banished to the backseat. "Because Min was swapping tongues with a doughnut pusher." Liza looked back over the seat at Min the sinner and shook her head." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 2ff813a | One hot August Thursday afternoon, Maddie Farady reached under the front seat of her husband's Cadillac and pulled out a pair of black lace underpants. They weren't hers. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 95d49df | You are the most passive son of a bitch," Cynthie said. "No wonder she never slept with you. You probably never asked her." "Thank you," David said. "That's great coming from somebody who got turned down after putting out for nine months. Don't see that being aggressive worked for you, sweetheart. Maybe you're the one with the heat problem." "Listen, you," Cynthie said. "I have a perfect body and I am great in bed." "You know, I doubt it," .. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 1b0defd | In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better." "Bad deduction," Jessie said. "If that were true, I'd be dating Harrison Ford by now." "I'm" | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 0f7fe1f | At present, he was deep into the romances of Jennifer Crusie, an author who wrote with excellent pacing and laugh-out-loud wit. | Katy Regnery | ||
| b8ca732 | She had to be the calmest woman in the world. Either that or she trusted him completely. That was depressing somehow. He went to take a cold shower. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 4835617 | Oh," Jake said. "So, this is what you want?" "No," Kate said. "But this is what I've got." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| ece7f45 | Romance fiction "tells the story that reflects a woman's reality as it could be and as it is," Jennifer Crusie, a bestselling contemporary romance author, writes on her blog. "It tells her she is not stupid because she's female, that she understands men better than they understand her, that she has a right to control over her own life, to children, to vocational fulfillment, to great sex, to a faithful loving partner."[13] Romantic fiction .. | Maya Rodale | ||
| cf31a92 | The true beginning of our end. | Beginnings | ||
| 9025ac8 | Was it possible people were heavier dead than alive? | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 2335757 | He seemed particularly insistent. I both did and didn't want to be left alone at the house with my mother. There was an aching in my chest that surprised me, and my eyes were watering up against my will. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 886188a | We learn in school that the civil rights movement was about overcoming segregation. But as my father has pointed out to me, what an oddly neutral word - segregation to describe what was happening in this country. We prefer it to more blunt descriptions of that social arrangement: subjugation, oppression. And perhaps, also, we don't want to acknowledge the ways in which we were not segregated at all, the ways in which the lives of black and .. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 02df379 | I think the narcolepsy is adorable. Someday you'll be happy for these little lulls. Who the fuck wants a man to be awake all the time? | Danzy Senna | ||
| 4fa490a | My father's subject: the relationship between history and the individual. He believes everybody is an 'excretion' of his or her environment. That's the word he uses. Excretion. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 8b1d69f | something--to make something right and final--is to kill it. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 3181a61 | She is beginning to understand that completion is not so much about reaching perfection as it is making the choice to look away from the material. What was it Khalil used to say when she couldn't finish a paper in college? Be a | Danzy Senna | ||
| 1847c2f | Don't hate white people. They can't help it. They have a learning disability. They need your compassion. They need accommodations. They are like preschoolers--their understanding of race is so basic. They can't be faulted for being uncomfortable with somebody who has what amounts to a graduate degree in race--that is, us. It's not fair for preschoolers to be placed in the same classroom with graduate students and be forced to compete. Pity .. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 43d4054 | One of the keys to cultivating grit is making the task at hand more interesting and motivating. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 6271c4b | considerate | Ruth Rendell | ||
| d3b787d | Stanley was affable, even considerate. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 3d2f175 | c) 2018 | Clive Cussler |