Laurell K. Hamilton · 348 pages
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“some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart.... it will keep you alive.
-merry gentry”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from A Caress of Twilight
“More sex. We must have more sex.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from A Caress of Twilight
“I will not be something you fuck and cuddle. I will be queen or I will be nothing to you.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from A Caress of Twilight
“The joys of the flesh are a blessing to be shared, not a curse to be guarded against.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from A Caress of Twilight
“his Rolex, and looked at me. Among the fey it was impolite to ask why a person was having hysterics. Hell, sometimes it was considered impolite to notice they were having hysterics at all. Usually that was for ruling royalty, though. Everyone had to pretend that the king or queen wasn’t bug nuts. Mustn’t admit that centuries of inbreeding had done any damage. He”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from A Caress of Twilight
“Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.”
― David Eddings, quote from Polgara the Sorceress
“O you, who in some pretty boat,
Eager to listen, have been following
Behind my ship, that singing sails along
Turn back to look again upon your own shores;
Tempt not the deep, lest unawares,
In losing me, you yourselves might be lost.
The sea I sail has never yet been passed;
Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo,
And Muses nine point out to me the Bears.
You other few who have neck uplifted
Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated,
Well may you launch your vessel
Upon the deep sea.”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from Paradiso
“When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Prodigal Son
“At first it's bliss. It's drunken, heady, intoxicating. It swallows the people we were - not particuarly wonderful people, but people who did our best, more or less - and spits out the monsters we are becoming.
Our friends despise us. We are an epic. Everything is grand, crashing, brilliant, blinding. It's the Golden Age of Hollywood, and we are a legend in our own minds, and no one outside can fail to see that we are headed for hell, and we won't listen, we say they don't understand, we pour more wine, go to the parties, we sparkle, fly all over the country, we're on an adventure, unstoppable, we've found each other and we race through our days like Mr. Toad in his yellow motorcar, with no idea where the brakes are and to hell with it anyway, we are on fire, drunk with something we call love.”
― Marya Hornbacher, quote from Madness: A Bipolar Life
“Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with “The Moment”—that moment where you first walk into the bar or restaurant or coffee shop and scan the crowd and suddenly your heart stops and you say to yourself: oh, please—let it be him.”
― Julie James, quote from Practice Makes Perfect
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