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96fe902 She kept her stare locked on his as she let go of his face and slowly, making sure he understood every step of the way,tilted her head back until her throat was arched and bared before him. "Aelin," he breathed. Not in reprimand or warning, but... a plea. It sounded like a plea. He lowered his head to her exposed neck and hovered a hair's breath away. She arched her neck farther, a silent invitation. Rowan let out a soft groan and grazed hi.. rowan-whitethorn trust Sarah J. Maas
2fecec0 You could rattle the stars, that's what scares you the most Sarah J. Maas
98d216d Manon told herself it was for an alliance. Told herself it was for show. But all she could see was the unconditional love in that dying wyvern's eyes as she unbuckled her harness, stood from the saddle, and leapt off Abraxos. Sarah J. Maas
2ec999c The choice of how our people's future shall be shaped is yours," Manon told each of the witches assembled, all the Blackbeaks who might fly off to war and never return. "But I will tell you this." Her hands shook, and she fisted them on her thighs. "There is a better world out there. And I have seen it." manon-blackbeak Sarah J. Maas
b394782 For across every mountain, spread beneath the green canopy of Oakwald, carpeting the entire Plain of Theralis, the kingsflame was blooming. kingdom-of-ash throne-of-glass Sarah J. Maas
33b86a1 Azriel shrugged. "We--Rhys, Cass, and I--will occasionally remind each other that what we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength. And that the most unlikely person can alter the course of history." Sarah J. Maas
85a0438 I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it. Miranda July
e4af0bc I'm just trying to do the right thing. I'm a vampire." "Duh." "And you're not." "Again: duh." "I could hurt you. I could lose control." "If you were anyone else, I'd have kneecapped you by now." Alyxandra Harvey
540ed08 No," Shane said. "I'm not leaving you two here alone. We stick together." "I'm still not kissing you," Michael said. "Tease." michael shane Rachel Caine
5a4865f Eve hugged her, hard. "It's beautiful," she said. "What happened to the old frosting?" Shane, sitting at the table, raised his hand. "Took one for the team." "Jesus, you ate it? All of it?" "Nah." He held up the bowl that was sitting in front of him. There was still about half a cup left. "Couldn't finish it all." Eve blinked and looked at Claire, who shrugged and said, "I always thought he was sweet." eve-rosser morganville-vampires shane-collins Rachel Caine
dcd581f Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. "What?" he asked. "They're quite comfortable." He lifted on to look at it, and the ears wobbled in the air. "Of course they are," she said. Just when she thought Myrnin was getting his mental act together, he'd do something like that. Or maybe he was just messing with her. He liked to do that, and his dark eyes were fixed on her now, assessing just.. funny lol morganville-vampires vamps Rachel Caine
6ad3559 She was staring at you.' 'What can I say? Irresistible.' 'Shane, it's not funny. I just--you should be careful. 'Always am.' Which was an absolute lie. Shane's eyes fixed on hers, and she felt a burst of heat inside that crept up to burn in her cheeks. He smiled slowly. 'Jealous?' 'Maybe.' 'No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse. feast-of-fools morganville-vampires shane-collins Rachel Caine
ec75452 She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company. Cornelia Funke
19b9ab8 to me a mountain is a buddha. think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin." japhy got out the tea, chinese tea, and sprinkled some in the tin pot, and had the fire going meanwhile...and pretty soon the water was boiling and he poured it out steaming into the tin pot a.. Jack Kerouac
f5f8fd0 I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show jack kerouac
1dade0c It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time. san-francisco travel Jack Kerouac
14abfa7 The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world. Jack Kerouac
36d7e54 Rocks are space, and space is illusion. Jack Kerouac
5e664b9 i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway. Jack Kerouac
2501b30 If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist. William Gaddis
6638223 When you meet an extraordinary person, it's like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people always get away. And when they leave, they take that little part of you with them. Suddenly you find yourself with a gap in your chest that you don't know how to live with. Suddenly you're frightened of being yourself without them. loss Chloe Rattray
5405f23 I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers? bad-ass funny Laurell K. Hamilton
1e18db0 Vampires are people too! Laurell K. Hamilton
86cb531 The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and , which is surely the devil's masterpiece. Sam Harris
a650b78 Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly." Isaac Asimov
27066ee What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything. Don DeLillo
eb0716a Only the madman is absolutely sure. Robert Anton Wilson
6200f55 he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the tempora.. exit-west family grief loss mohsin-hamid mourning prayer relationships Mohsin Hamid
a3ff46e It was just a kiss - " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey." Linda Howard
c7e0d52 Men always say that as the defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she's hosting the world's biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all ho.. Gillian Flynn
23484eb Every loneliness is a pinnacle Ayn Rand
57be36a He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it. John Steinbeck
031b8ca Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different. love relationships Gary Chapman
faba43f There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge. V.C. Andrews
a5b79a6 The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present. James Frey
ab13811 Sammantha: Tucker? Tucker: Does some other man call at this hour just to hear your voice? If so, give me his name, and I'll kill him. Catherine Anderson
e35417f I hate ordinary people! louisa-may-alcott Louisa May Alcott
3238488 I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven. death life little-women louisa-may-alcott love Louisa May Alcott
276c46b The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. Louisa May Alcott
7cde0d4 Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it. Charles Dickens
ae2977e I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'. Jean-Paul Sartre
58d858c I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. Jean Paul Sartre
0bd6e33 Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is. Jean-Paul Sartre
63cc9e5 Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. depression despair leadership strategy Frank Herbert