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
“Love was something I would not have to worry about - the whole mystery of love, heartbreak songs, and family legends. Women who pined, men who went mad, people who forgot who they were and shamed themselves with need, wanting only to be loved by the one they loved. Love was a mystery. Love was a calamity. Love was a curse that had somehow skipped me, which was no doubt why I was so good at multiple-choice tests and memorizing poetry. Sex was a country I been dragged into as an unwilling girl - sex, and the madness of the body. For all that it could terrify and confuse me, sex was something I had assimilated. Sex was a game or a weapon or an addiction. Sex was familiar. But love - love was another country.”
― Dorothy Allison, quote from Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
“No. Your thoughts are what make you. But your body isn't a meaningless thing either. Call me strange, but I think only the person you love the most should see you like that. And not here--in an ugly, dirty place--when you haven't even thought about it.”
― Emm Cole, quote from Keeping Merminia
“When Franklin D. Roosevelt launched Social Security in 1935, he did not present it as expressing the mutual obligation of citizens to one another. ... Rather than offer a communal rationale, FDR argued that such rights were essential to "true individual freedom," adding, "necessitous men are not free men.”
― Michael J. Sandel, quote from Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“Incited. That was it, the guidingprinciple of her life in Copenhagen. She was incited to make an impression, a voluptous impression. She was incited to inflame attention and admiration. She was dressed for it, subtly schooled for it. And after a little while she gave herself up wholly to the fascinating business of being seen, gaped at, desired.”
― Nella Larsen, quote from Quicksand
“Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
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