“But you see we can’t all be the phoenix, some of us have to be the ash.”
“The woman I married could fool angels into believing she was one of them.”
“Icarus burned because he flew during the day. He wanted the world to see. We fly in the darkness, where people are afraid to look.”
“I always win gentlemen. Even if it looks like I’m losing I’m winning.”
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.” —Stephen King”
“It took a cold son of a bitch to look the love of their life in the eyes, then put a bullet in their skull.”
“She could disarm and cut people down with them alone. It was a talent of hers. She had no need for guns, she just liked them.”
“I hate it when you call me, Melody,” she said softly. “It hurts. It hurts when you pull away from me. Everything you said before, it hurt me. I hate you for saying them, and I hate myself for caring. I hate more than anything that I…that it’s so hard for me to say how much I love you.”
“You can’t win if you aren’t willing to lose it all.”
“As I gently lifted Ethan I smiled as how warm he was; a little bundle of life.”
“I want you to remember to laugh, remember that it’s okay to be happy without me.”
“I wasn’t going to lower myself to their incompetence… I had people for that.”
“But I wanted… I needed her to need e as much as I needed her.”
“Money was not the root of all evil, it was just a vehicle that got you to power.”
“I’m free to look at what I own.”
“I knew not everyone would be intact at the finish line.”
“J..es…u..s fu…ck..in.g Ch..ri…st Liam!” The bed slammed against the wall.”
“Do you think we are pyromaniacs?’” I snickered as I gazed at rising smoke…”
“He is gone and I find myself staring at shoes so large that they could’ve only belonged to a giant.”
“He’s just the “one”. Not in a religious, demi-god sort of way even though I wouldn’t put it past him to think that of himself.”
“She was dripping for me and I licked it all up as she shivered. SMACK”
“Nervous?" he asked, his voice barely audible above the steady slice of his oars through the calm bay.
"No," she lied.
"Me too.”
“Philosophy and the study of the real world have the same relation to one another as onanism and sexual love.”
“A policing of sex: that is, not the rigor of a taboo, but the necessity of regulating sex through useful and public discourses. A few examples will suffice. One of the great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was the emergence of “population” as an economic and political problem: population as wealth, population as manpower or labor capacity, population balanced between its own growth and the resources it commanded. Governments perceived that they were not dealing simply with subjects, or even with a “people,” but with a “population,” with its specific phenomena and its peculiar variables: birth and death rates, life expectancy, fertility, state of health, frequency of illnesses, patterns of diet and habitation.”
“It's true," He whispered.
Suddenly, I was aware of how close we were standing, so close I could touch the square of his jaw or the chiseled planes of his face.
"What's true?"
"You are as beautiful as I remembered. Nefer," he said, and his breath came quickly. "Perhaps you want to simply remain my friend, but when I was gone, all I could think about was you. When I was supposed to be thinking about the rebellion, or how my men would find fresh water in the desert, all I could think of was how you wanted to be hidden away in the Temple of Hathor. Nefer," he said passionately, "you can't be a priestess."
I wanted to close my eyes and step into the shelter of his embrace, but beyond the column the entire court was gathering.
"But if I'm not to be a priestess," I asked him, "where will my place be in Thebes?" I held my breath, waiting for the right answer to come, willing it into his heart. Then he took me in his arms and brushed his lips against mine.
"With me," he said firmly. "As my queen.”
“We’re all under the streetlamps, everyone’s the color of day-old piss. When I’m fifty, this is how I’ll remember my friends: tired and yellow and drunk.”
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