“ROMEO: Here’s the thing: when you back a wounded dog into a corner, it’s going to come out fighting.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Romeo: You couldn’t put a price on piece of mind.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Rimmel: I finally accepted the fact I was really struggling today, and with that acceptance, it became a little easier to breathe.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Romeo: You know what pisses me off?
When good days are ruined by bad s*t.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“ROMEO: If there was one thing I’d learned over the past few years, it was life wasn’t easy. In fact, at times, it was f*cking brutal. Family was supposed to be the exception. Family was supposed to make life easier. It wasn’t always that way.
Guess that’s why the six of us formed our own family. A family by choice and out of loyalty.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“ROMEO: Fastest way to not hear what someone has to say? Hang up on them.
Did it make me an *sshole? Sure did. Did I give a rat’s *ss? H*lls no.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“VALERIE: .....It isn’t your fault. These things, these horrible things just happen.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Life wasn't just any one thing. It was a combination... a melting pot of emotions, a mix of salty and sweet.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“I smiled into his lips, and he continued to kiss me. "Your smile is my favorite flavor," he said, pulling away slightly.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“The memories still seemed to haunt me at a moment's notice.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“My brain was the internet, and I had one thousand tabs open all the time.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“He still did it. He still looked at me like I was all he saw, like I was the sun and the moon all wrapped up into one.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“You may be half the size of my son, but your strength matches his.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“I was stronger. Not healed. I would never be "healed." I didn't think there was such a thing for a person who'd lost a child. It was simply learning to live incomplete.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Sometimes the worst insults are the ones that prey on our deepest fears.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“That's right. Your husband. I belong to you, Rim. Always. I don't want anyone but you. I haven't since the day you spilled pencils everywhere, in your lesbian sweater, and gave me a list of rules.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“Quiet Romeo was a scary Romeo. It was like the calm before the storm. Or an empty football stadium.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“She was a collector of lost souls. The forgotten, the bypassed, the most beautiful at heart. Rimmel saw beauty no one else saw, and even though how she made others feel was amazing, it was nothing compared to the way it made her shine.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
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“The laws of the Islamic state would be derived first from the Koran. But since only about six hundred of its six thousand verses are concerned with law, and only about eighty of these deal directly with crime, punishments, contracts and family law, other sources also have to be consulted. The”
― Geraldine Brooks, quote from Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
“We that are bred up in learning, and destinated by our parents to this end, we suffer our childhood in the grammar-school, which Austin calls magnam tyrannidem, et grave malum, and compares it to the torments of martyrdom; when we come to the university, if we live of the college allowance, as Phalaris objected to the Leontines, [Greek: pan ton endeis plaen limou kai phobou] , needy of all things but hunger and fear, or if we be maintained but partly by our parents' cost, do expend in unnecessary maintenance, books and degrees, before we come to any perfection, five hundred pounds, or a thousand marks. If by this price of the expense of time, our bodies and spirits, our substance and patrimonies, we cannot purchase those small rewards, which are ours by law, and the right of inheritance, a poor parsonage, or a vicarage of 50 l. per annum, but we must pay to the patron for the lease of a life (a spent and out-worn life) either in annual pension, or above the rate of a copyhold, and that with the hazard and loss of our souls, by simony and perjury, and the forfeiture of all our spiritual preferments, in esse and posse, both present and to come. What father after a while will be so improvident to bring up his son to his great charge, to this necessary beggary? What Christian will be so irreligious, to bring up his son in that course of life, which by all probability and necessity, coget ad turpia, enforcing to sin, will entangle him in simony and perjury, when as the poet said, Invitatus ad hæc aliquis de ponte negabit: a beggar's brat taken from the bridge where he sits a begging, if he knew the inconvenience, had cause to refuse it." This being thus, have not we fished fair all this while, that are initiate divines, to find no better fruits of our labours, [2030] hoc est cur palles, cur quis non prandeat hoc est? do we macerate ourselves for this? Is it for this we rise so early all the year long? [2031] "Leaping" (as he saith) "out of our beds, when we hear the bell ring, as if we had heard a thunderclap." If this be all the respect, reward and honour we shall have, [2032] frange leves calamos, et scinde Thalia libellos: let us give over our books, and betake ourselves to some other course of life; to what end should we study?”
― Robert Burton, quote from The Anatomy of Melancholy
“If we all spoke the truth there would be a great deal of unhappiness in the world, and particularly at such a time. Some things are better left unsaid.”
― Amanda Grange, quote from Mr. Darcy's Diary
“...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“Blue Duck could never avoid a moment of fear, when his father's eyes became the eyes of a snake. He choked off his insult -- he knew that if he spoke, he might, in an instant, find himself fighting Buffalo Hump. He had seen it before, with other warriors. Someone would say one word too many, would fail to see the snake in his father's eyes, and the next moment Buffalo Hump would be pulling his long bloody knife from between the other warrior's ribs.
Blue Duck waited. He knew that it was not a day to fight his father.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Comanche Moon
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