“Passion can sometimes bring out qualities in a person that they never knew they possessed.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“I feel myself implode, and all I can think about is how much I miss him. I miss curling into his arms and telling him about my day. I miss knowing he’ll always be mine—that no one will ever know me like he does. I miss his lips and his hands. I miss his heart and his soul. I miss every part of him.
I feel so empty.
Can a person die of emptiness?”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“I really miss us, Trent.” I swallow. “I miss how I could tell you everything and how I knew you’d never judge me. I miss how safe I used to feel when you held me. I miss that you knew me better than I knew myself. I miss my best friend so much,” I add, as a tear rolls over my lashes. “What we did stole him from me. I want him back.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“You never seem to run out of ways to blow my mind, Lexie. You’re my best friend, and you’re the one woman I can imagine spending the rest of my life with. Do you know how lucky that makes me?”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“I came here today because when you finally realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. You never seem to run out of ways to blow my mind, Lexie. You're my best friend, and you're the one woman I can imagine spending the rest of my life with. Do you know how lucky that makes me? Marry Me. Please.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“I love getting lost on purpose”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“So, when you're doing something you love, sometimes it doesn't feel hard, even if it is”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“You walked into my life, and from the first moment I laid eyes on you, you made me feel things I'd thought I'd suppressed-primal urges that needed to be satisfied. At first, I thought you were sent by the Lord to test my devotion. I thought you were my final temptation, and that, if I was strong enough to resist you, I was worthy of serving the Lord. I have prayed every day for direction, and every day, He brings me closer to you. What he's shown me is that my devotion to him is not stronger than your hold on me. I'm not strong enough to serve him faithfully. I think about you and I dream about you and.... I want you every waking minute.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“I want to share the places I love with you before I dont have you anymore”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“Yep. The tingle in my groin is unmistakable. I've got the hots for the good reverend. I thought I was going to hell before, but this pretty much cements it.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“Only someone authentic, with a deep love of art, will radiate the enthusiasm needed to keep them engaged”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“I just had totally mind-blowing sex with my step brother. And I'm leaving for Rome in two days. Which is a good thing because I just had totally mind-blowing sex with my step brother.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“When you finally realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“Somehow, getting closer than humanly possible drove us further apart than we've ever been.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“History, is a conscious, self-meditating process — Spirit emptied out into Time; but this externalization, this kenosis, is equally an externalization of itself; the negative is the negative of itself. This Becoming presents a slow-moving succession of Spirits, a gallery of images, each of which, endowed with all the riches of Spirit, moves thus slowly just because the Self has to penetrate and digest this entire wealth of its substance. As its fulfilment consists in perfectly knowing what it is, in knowing its substance, this knowing is that withdrawal into itself in which it abandons its outer existence and gives its existential shape over to recollection. Thus absorbed in itself, it is sunk in the night of its self-consciousness; but in that night its vanished outer existence is perserved, and this transformed existence — the former one, but now reborn of the Spirit's knowledge — is the new existence, a new world and a new shape of Spirit. In the immediacy of this new existence the Spirit has to start afresh to bring itself to maturity as if, for it, all that preceded were lost and it had learned nothing from the experience of the earlier Spirits. But recollection, the inwardizing, of that experience, has perserved it and is the inner-being, and in fact the higher form of the substance. So although to bring itself to maturity, it is none the less on a higher level that it starts. The realm of Spirits which is formed in this way in the outer world constitutes a succession in Time in which one Spirit relieved another of its charge and each took over the empire of the world from its predecessor.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, quote from Phenomenology of Spirit
“Traditionally, power was what was seen, what was shown, and what was manifested...Disciplinary power, on the other hand, is exercised through its invisibility; at the same time it imposes on those whom it subjects a principle of compulsory visibility. In discipline, it is the subjects who have to be seen. Their visibility assures the hold of the power that is exercised over them. It is this fact of being constantly seen, of being able always to be seen, that maintains the disciplined individual in his subjection. And the examination is the technique by which power, instead of emitting the signs of its potency, instead of imposing its mark on its subjects, holds them in a mechanism of objectification. In this space of domination, disciplinary power manifests its potency, essentially by arranging objects. The examination is, as it were, the ceremony of this objectification.”
― Michel Foucault, quote from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“Por lo tanto, la mecánica cuántica introduce en la ciencia un elemento inevitable de impredecibilidad o aleatoriedad. Einstein se opuso rotundamente a ello, a pesar del importante papel que había desempeñando en el desarrollo de estas ideas. [...]
La prueba de una teoría científica es su capacidad de predecir los resultados de un experimento. La teoría cuántica limita nuestras posibilidades. ¿Limita la teoría cuántica la ciencia? Para progresar, la manera en que hacemos ciencia debe ser dictada por la naturaleza. En este caso, la naturaleza exige que redefinamos lo que entendemos por predicción: quizá no podamos predecir exactamente el resultado de un experimento, pero podemos repetirlo muchas vces y confirmar que los diversos resultado posibles ocurren con las probabilidades predichas por la teoría cuántica. Así, a pesar del primer principio de incertidumbre, no es necesario abandonar la creencia en un mundo regido por leyes físicas.”
― Stephen Hawking, quote from A Briefer History of Time
“She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you were despised for treasuring.”
― Frances Hardinge, quote from Fly by Night
“You have done nothing to draw this evil one to you,Syndil. There is no evil in you,no wickedness. You are the light of our lives, as is Desari. Without you,there is no existence. I will not allow him to take you from us, from me. Know this,woman: if you do not stand with me, merge completely and allow our combined strength to fight his hold on you,then I will follow wherever he takes you and battle to the death for your return.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Dark Challenge
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