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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d8f9b89 | He didn't stick around in the vicinity doing mysterious shit, sending messages to the heroine by a third party. He hauled his ass into oblivion. And that was the way things should be, as far as I was concerned. Life should imitate romance literature far more often. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 87dfd79 | I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 0f67a5d | I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom. You would have thought that since they lived together twenty-four hours a day they would've said all they could think of to say, but I could hear one offer the other a comment every now and then. This calm, intermittent dialogue seemed companionable, and I went into kind of a trance sitting on the end of that bed. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 3c00fb9 | We'd walked over to my car while Torrance talked, and I'd pulled out my keys. Now I stopped with my fingers on the car door handle. "Dug up the backyard?" I echoed incredulously. Come to think of it, that wasn't so surprising. I thought about it for a moment. Okay, something that could be kept in a hole in the ground as well as hidden in a house." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| ae68855 | Now! I told myself briskly, to ward off the melancholy, as I dumped my cup and wrapper in the trash bin and left the restaurant. Now to work, then home, then out on a real date, and tomorrow get out early in the morning to find those boxes! I should have remembered that my plans seldom work out. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 7ed680b | Aubrey was in mufti, which definitely helped me to relax. He was disconcertingly attractive in his jeans and shirt; I had some definitely secular thoughts. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 0953ac4 | Incontrovertible truth. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 2e49ad4 | She had almost certainly poisoned her perfidious former lover, a clerk, so she could marry into her own respectable upper-middle-class milieu without the clerk's revealing their physical intimacy. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 06b49af | I enjoyed my arms around him, the sense of him next to me. And if you were to ask me, I would confess that I thought Sam and I would be together, maybe by Christmas, maybe for always. I couldn't imagine a future without him. But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home. I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I b.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b8fc2eb | was electrified. I had never really thought the queen could have truly loved Hadley, but I saw now that she had, as much as she was able. We watched Hadley glance at the television from time to time while she painted her toenails, drank a phantom glass of blood, and made a phone call. We couldn't hear her. We could only see, and that within a limited range. The object she reached for would appear the minute her hand touched it, but not befo.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 2ba3912 | A peremptory knock on the front door made me jump. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 97d43c6 | A vagrant thought crossed my mind. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 2f99707 | Hey, neighbor," exclaimed the vision. It was Carey Osland in her working getup. I could see why she preferred loafers and housedresses. She looked marvelous, almost edible, but definitely not comfortable. "I'm glad to see you," Carey was saying warmly while I was decoding her identity." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 237f5c2 | He handed me the keys. My hand closed over them. It felt like a formal investiture. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 8c76492 | He was being mighty chary with my money. Now that I was so rich, I could fling open the windows and doors and set the thermostat on forty, if I wanted to do something so foolish and wasteful. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 4fa08c9 | Those things don't matter. You had no control over your past, | Charlaine Harris | ||
| da6c0b3 | I'll deal with your hang-ups if you'll deal with mine, but if you're still too scared to even try, then you're not worth waiting for. I have some goddamn pride left and I won't wait forever. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d43c7ce | Are you hurt?" asked Sergeant Burns, with reluctant professional solicitude." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 7e7c8f5 | My God, child, you look like something the cat dragged in!" Eileen bellowed. She was a suspiciously dark-haired woman about forty-five, with expensive clothes from the very best big women's store. Her makeup was heavy but well done, her perfume was intrusive but attractive, and she was one of the most overwhelming women I'd ever met. Eileen was something of a town character in Lawrenceton, and she could talk you into buying a house quicker .. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| cb36cd8 | Nothing could stop tragedy from visiting your home. The angel of death would not pass over, leaving you unscathed, no matter how large your house was. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 6bb9705 | Nothing had been poured out of its container or wantonly vandalized, but the contents had been moved as though the cabinet itself were the object of the search, not possible loot that could be taken away. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 397a8d8 | This was the trump card male bullies played, always. I was sick of it--sick of being scared of the bogeyman's dick. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 82fb50d | How could two people in love so misjudge each other? | Charlaine Harris | ||
| bdaf13c | Any place books are massed together makes me feel at home. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 351a82a | Suddenly, he had a mental image of Xylda so vivid that it almost brought tears to his eyes: this whole rush of past experiences, brought back by that one inhalation. He knew he said something to Creek before he turned to walk back to the car, but he couldn't recall what it was a minute later. He had to sit in the car for a while before he left to run his errands. He pulled out his list of errands from his pocket and pretended to be studying.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 15211de | Clovache's Voice said, "How large is the device?" Her accent was sort of like Russian, as least to my untravelled ears. ("Hau larch . . . ?") "The size of one of those cans of sweetened syrup," Batanya answered. "Ah, the burping drinks," Clovache said." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 5516730 | ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 58e86c9 | Did Lou have Luke--isn't that your little boy's name?--here in the Shakespeare hospital? | Charlaine Harris | ||
| de9f4c7 | I had never been able to fathom what people did with their free moments, if they didn't read. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 06b0f0c | the pain in my middle was the unmistakable pain of rejection. I knew the feeling so well, it was like a second skin. I sure hated to crawl back inside it. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 992aabb | the countless religious ceremonies held here had drenched the soil not with anguish, but with calm detachment, thoughts of eternity. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 8046db5 | Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." She had explained that that meant that you don't worry about tomorrow, or about things you can't change. I" | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 2b69a17 | The southern standard of niceness was this: You'd never been convicted of anything, you didn't look at other's women's husbands too openly. You wrote your thank-you notes and were polite to your elders. You had to take a keen interest in your children's upbringing. And you made sure your family was fed adequately. There were sideways and byways in this "nice" thing, but those were the general have-tos." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 6386ef8 | Though I didn't mind being by myself from time to time--in fact, I enjoyed it--I'd had a little too much of it lately. And being alone is a lot more fun if it's optional. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 363379d | It was my own grief. I could feel it fading away into something I simply accepted, because that's the way I am. I knew I'd feel better. It was living until then that was hard. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| fbcce0f | As to your being worthy, I don't think falling in love has much to do with the worth of the object of love. But I'd dispute your assessment. I think you're a fine woman, and I think you always try to be the best person you can be. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 47fa3e7 | I don't have to take a stand by telling other people they're wrong," I'd protested. "What business is it of mine?" "If you love them, it's your business," he'd said firmly. "If their misbehavior is intruding on the happiness and well-being of others, it's your business." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d09afa1 | But you can't erase a thought; once you've had it, it's there to stay. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 45ccedb | The best sorts of leftover meals are those that are glorified picnics. Alongside the cold meats, you need a good purchased pate en croute--one made with veal or duck would be just the thing. Also put on the table some salad and bread. | Nigella Lawson | ||
| 0a1b1ce | when confidence is undermined or ruptured, it can be difficult to do the simplest things, or to take any enjoyment even in trying. | Nigella Lawson | ||
| 34863cc | At all times a heavy ceramic casserole would sit on a pale blue Aga, so should people drop in unexpectedly, I could wander out in my bare feet, welcome them warmly, give them dinner, then press my home-made elderberry wine on them. I would be like Nigella Lawson. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 0bc56d7 | Eating alone, for me, is most often a prompt to shop. This is where self-absorption and consumerism meet-- a rapt, satisfyingly convoluted pleasure."--Nigella Lawson" | Klancy Miller | ||
| 967dd8c | GORGONZOLA & CANNELLINI DIP WITH A TRICOLORE FLOURISH I LOVE THIS COMBINATION OF BLUE CHEESE AND WHITE BEANS, but I have to say its gorgeousness is due in no small part to the mascarpone and Marsala that add creaminess of texture and smoky depth of tone respectively. I like this dip to have real tang: I need to feel that burning, blue-cheese buzz. | Nigella Lawson | ||
| 3f31f3b | Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their number-one friend. | Barbara Kingsolver |