“We have such a long history that when I look into his eyes that's all I can see. I forget the stupidity of what we've done and who could get hurt. I just remember the man who loved me once”
― K.A. Linde, quote from Avoiding Responsibility
“I do want you Ramsey Bridges," she told him as a matter-of-fact.
"And you shall have me whenever you like.”
― K.A. Linde, quote from Avoiding Responsibility
“Lexi, it is for you. I'm working to make things better for you.”
― K.A. Linde, quote from Avoiding Responsibility
“I want to escape with you, Jack."
"I'll always be your escape, Lex.”
― K.A. Linde, quote from Avoiding Responsibility
“Do you want to just fuck me in front of all your friends? Because all you seem to be doing is fucking me over Ramsey.”
― K.A. Linde, quote from Avoiding Responsibility
“I would do anything I could to go back to that time when we could have been together and change the way I acted. I’d change it, because we were fated to be together however brief, however unbelievable, however painful, however flawed.”- Jack Howard”
― K.A. Linde, quote from Avoiding Responsibility
“I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from VALIS
“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
― Malcolm X, quote from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.”
― Paul Kalanithi, quote from When Breath Becomes Air
“Tancredi, in an attempt to link gallantry with greed, tried to imagine himself tasting, in the aromatic forkfuls, the kisses of his neighbour Angelica, but he realised at once that the experiment was disgusting and suspended it, with a mental reserve about reviving this fantasy with the pudding”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, quote from The Leopard
“Did you pick that out?" I asked Dimitri. Honestly, I would have expected him to bend a piece of steel with his bare hands and present her with that.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Ruby Circle
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