“I couldn’t imagine loving someone with that kind of intensity, and knowing that the one you’re with is the only one you’ll ever want.”
I realized that I was rambling so I stopped talking as Trace just looked at me. His expression was completely unreadable. He wrapped his hands around my face as he looked deeply into my eyes before he whispered, “I can...”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged
“There are so many reasons I could list as to why I want you in my life and the three most important are I respect you, I admire you, and I love you. Marry me.”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged
“That was what I wanted: someone who knew me better than I knew myself, someone who knew all the worst parts of me, yet still loved me.”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged
“All my heart is yours: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged
“I clearly was not cut out for undercover work; we hadn’t even gone two blocks before Trace realized he had a tail.”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged
“Life works in mysterious ways, Ember, and the secret is to not think too hard on the why or how of it, and to not mourn what is no longer, but live: live hard and love hard.”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged
“There was a note of humor in his tone when he replied, “Mad Dog Max.”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged
“It isn't every day a wish comes true and you, Ember, are the answer to my wish.”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged
“Could people truly be happy if they were unwilling to put the ghosts of their past to rest? I suspected no.”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged
“I suspected he was a damaged soul, but he was a beautiful one too.”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged
“It was painful looking at the man you wanted more than a cake pop and knowing you’d never have him, because to do so would mean becoming one of many other notches on his bedpost.”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged
L.A. Fiore
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“যক্ষপুরীর হাওয়ায় সুন্দরের পরে অবজ্ঞা ঘটিয়ে দেয়, এইটেই সর্বনেশে। নরকেও সুন্দর আছে, কিন্তু সুন্দরকে কেউ সেখানে বুঝতেই পারে না, নরকবাসীর সব চেয়ে বড়ো সাজা তাই।”
― Rabindranath Tagore, quote from Red Oleanders
“I found myself all at once on the brink of panic. This, I suddenly felt, was going too far. Too far, even though the going was into intenser beauty, deeper significance. The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear. The literature of religious experience abounds in references to the pains and terrors overwhelming those who have come, too suddenly, face to face with some manifestation of the Mysterium tremendum. In theological language, this fear is due to the in-compatibility between man's egotism and the divine purity, between man's self-aggravated separateness and the infinity of God. Following Boehme and William Law, we may say that, by unregenerate souls, the divine Light at its full blaze can be apprehended only as a burning, purgatorial fire. An almost identical doctrine is to be found in The Tibetan Book of the Dead, where the departed soul is described as shrinking in agony from the Pure Light of the Void, and even from the lesser, tempered Lights, in order to rush headlong into the comforting darkness of selfhood as a reborn human being, or even as a beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated Reality—anything!”
― Aldous Huxley, quote from The Doors of Perception
“Centuries later, as the dragon planet spun through space, a comet passed by, close enough to shine like a fourth moon in Pyrrhia’s sky. Close enough to change the tides and shake the continents. As earthquakes rumbled through the ground, long-buried rocks shifted that had been in place for thousands of years. Deep underground, in the darkness, copper wires snapped. And a dragon awoke …”
― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from Darkstalker
“shoes. Shoes were life. They represented the journey, the travels, the destinations of their owners. They stretched to fit their master. They conformed to that person’s shape. They carried the dust from where one had gone and pointed in the direction of the future. Shoes were life. And there was nothing sadder than a pair of shoes that would never be used by their owner again.”
― Heather Burch, quote from In the Light of the Garden
“Grandma Julie’s parents didn’t come to their wedding. Grandpa Byron says they were too busy, but that seems odd to me. Perhaps they were racists and didn’t like her marrying Grandpa Byron. Everyone was a racist in 1972, apparently.”
― quote from Time Travelling with a Hamster
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Sometimes Never
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