“So you're a dom, huh? Nice." I stabbed my pancakes again. "Kinky."
"You're the one who ties people up, babe.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Yeah. Calm down. Two of the most useless words in the English language.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“So you're a dom, huh? Nice." I stabbed my pancakes again. "Kinky."
"You're the one who ties people up, babe.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“You've got a better chance with me, Dru. Don't do something stupid again. If something happens, it's you and me against the world. Got it?”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Now," Graves finally said, "anyone else want to piss me off? Anyone else think this is a goddamn democracy?”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Goddammit, Bobby, break the speed limit!”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“My legs were on fire. All of me was burning and my back was a solid bar of pain. But it didn't matter.
What mattered was Graved next to me, also rubbing my back and laughing like he'd just found Christmas in his pants.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“He smelled like smoke too, and under it was the edge of apple pies-spice and goodness. Jesus. Even after all that he smelled like a bakery.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“He was so close it was hard to breathe. It was exactly like being next to an oven baking a really spicy apple pie.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Come on. Say something, Dru. Don't just sit there and look like I've stabbed you. Christ.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more. ”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“I crossed my arms over my chest. Jeez, it was cold in here all of a sudden. And had he always smelled this good? Was it a cologne? Eau de Christmas Pie?”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Yeah, well things change. Now I want to be here." Another long, seconds-ticking pause. Dust danced in one fading gleam of gold coming through a low window, following long lazy swirls down to the ground. "With you.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“I don't know who I am anymore." I expected the world to crack open and the sky to fall once I said it. Nothing happened.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“The rest of it spilled out in an incoherent jumble, but he nodded every once in a while. I liked that about him. He was so smart you didn't have to hold his hand and walk him through everything. He could fill in the blanks on his own.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“My voice wouldn't work right. I made a tiny nod instead, because - how's this for weird? - I didn't want him to let go of me. He'd pulled back a little, with just his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire to the rest of me, because I had an idea why.
Wow. Oh, wow.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Gee, thanks." I couldn't sound more sarcastic, but I was willing to give it a try. My breathing evened out. "What are you here for, then? Tea and cookies?" My mouth wanted to water. He smelled like cookies. Cinnamon ones, with dabs of apple-pie filling.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Nice, huh? I was just special all over the place.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“I'm going to draw whoever it is off so you can go back to the dorms and fuck yourselves.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Jeez. Just over a week was all it took for my life to implode. It was some kind of record.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Less speed, less strength, less stamina since I hadn't "bloomed". But I'd bet I was outweighing everyone around me in the brain category.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“It is our honor," Amelia said, and it was the weirdest thing-it sounded like she really meant it. People don't often say exactly what they really mean.”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Another big ripping sound. Jesus. Had they brought supernatural dynamite in to tear the whole place apart?”
― Lili St. Crow, quote from Betrayals
“Would yell if a person didn’t coo and aww and tell her what a beautiful mother she would make and how her daughter would surely grow up to be just like her, by all the lucky stars.”
― Marissa Meyer, quote from Fairest
“I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
“Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.”
― Michael Ondaatje, quote from In the Skin of a Lion
“All down the stone steps on either side were periwinkles in full flower, and she could now see what it was that had caught at her the night before and brushed, wet and scented, across her face. It was wistaria. Wistaria and sunshine . . . she remembered the advertisement. Here indeed were both in profusion. The wistaria was tumbling over itself in its excess of life, its prodigality of flowering; and where the pergola ended the sun blazed on scarlet geraniums, bushes of them, and nasturtiums in great heaps, and marigolds so brilliant that they seemed to be burning, and red and pink snapdragons, all outdoing each other in bright, fierce colour. The ground behind these flaming things dropped away in terraces to the sea, each terrace a little orchard, where among the olives grew vines on trellises, and fig-trees, and peach-trees, and cherry-trees. The cherry-trees and peach-trees were in blossom--lovely showers of white and deep rose-colour among the trembling delicacy of the olives; the fig-leaves were just big enough to smell of figs, the vine-buds were only beginning to show. And beneath these trees were groups of blue and purple irises, and bushes of lavender, and grey, sharp cactuses, and the grass was thick with dandelions and daisies, and right down at the bottom was the sea. Colour seemed flung down anyhow, anywhere; every sort of colour piled up in heaps, pouring along in rivers....”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, quote from The Enchanted April
“Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.”
― Victor Hugo, quote from The Man Who Laughs
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