“This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“Don't worry about it. I'd have dumped me too if I was on a romantic date with that!”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“Good morning, beautiful, call when you're awake. xx Adam.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“You are one scary girl. Beautiful, amazing, magical, but damn scary.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“Pencil me in for another sleep date soon.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“I thought you were dead."
"Me too, baby, me too," he said weakly.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“I no longer wanted to feel displaced.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“Love is never worth giving up on.”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
“We can’t bet our lives away on something that might be. We can cross that bridge if we come to it”
― Leigh Fallon, quote from Carrier of the Mark
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“It smells terrible in here.'
Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”
― John Kennedy Toole, quote from A Confederacy of Dunces
“What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Spirit Bound
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
― quote from The Velveteen Rabbit
“It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire and brimstone all right, but hidden in lacy groves.”
― Toni Morrison, quote from Beloved
“Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Jurassic Park
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