“Everything’s not always black and white, Princess. Sometimes we have to do shit because there’s not another choice. Maybe you should think about that before you snub your nose at me.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“Don’t cry, Princess. You know what they say. You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet your prince.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“Colt lies on my bed and pulls me down behind him. I expect him to go for my clothes, but instead he kisses me again.
“Blanket.” I mutter, between kisses.
“If you’re cold I’m doing something wrong.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“I'm a prick half the time, but you make me better. You make me happy. I don’t want to lose you. I love you. I don’t want to lose you.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“I'm fucking good at this boyfriend shit. Who would have thought?”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“This isn’t a fucking game anymore. No charades here. I don’t know exactly what to call it, but whatever it is, it’s ours. I’m going to latch onto it. And never let go.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“But when he smiles? Really smiles, it’s perfect. Like toothpaste commercial, boy-next-door beauty that makes it really hard to be pissed at him.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“Just know that you can. I won’t tell. I might not be able to do much for you, but I’ll hold your secrets.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“I thought this was a game,” I remind him.
“Not anymore and you know it. Everything else in my life is all fucked up. This is the only thing that’s real.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“You don't have to do it on your own. Let me take some of the weight, baby."
But he has so much already. "You have your own problems."
"We'll share each others.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“It's easier to hide in the dark...but easier to let go too.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“The cup is half full, sunshine and flowers and I try to act like I agree, but really I’m pissed someone dumped out half of my drink.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“I’m tired of running … This is the only thing that’s real. Don’t run from me, Tiny Dancer.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“My face is in his neck and I think if I was going to cry, this would be the perfect place to do it”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“Tomorrow… don’t remind me I said this. I won’t want to talk about it, but tonight… keep me safe.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“Words are so ridiculous sometimes. They don't really mean anything, but they're all I have.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“Pity isn't the only thing I don't do. Princesses are high on my lists too.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“A laugh jumps out of my mouth, surprising me. I can’t even remember the last time I laughed and it puts me on edge. I suddenly want to do the same thing to her. Let her see how it feels to teeter on that cliff.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“I feel like a dick for being an ass.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“I don’t know how in the fuck we got here, but somehow this game is more real than anything else.
And I want it.
I fucking want it.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“Is it crazy that I’m proud of her for standing up to me at the same time that I’m pissed at her?”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“When we pull away we’re both breathing hard, but I don’t think she’s thinking about her aunt or her mom anymore. “Damn I’m good.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“She loves him the way a mother should love their child. Thoroughly. Completely. To her, he's the most important person in the world and I'm so very happy they have that.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“We can't always control what we don't like, Tiny Dancer.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“There’s no talking. No laughing. Nothing but eager hands and sad eyes.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“I squeeze my eyes shut as though that will somehow make it go away, but I know it won’t. It happened and there’s no changing it. No changing any of the things that happen to us. All there is to do is move on. Starting now.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“I grab her arms and pull her toward me. Now she has her arms wrapped around my waist and we’re chest to chest. She’s laughing and I almost want to laugh with her. For a second it feels real and okay. The knot in my gut loosens and I’m not scared to breathe.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“you're just pissed you liked it”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“You guys think you fooled me in the beginning,” she rasps. “You were only fooling yourself.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“Yo podría no ser capaz de hacer mucho por ti, pero yo voy a guardar tus secretos.”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
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“What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.”
― Naomi Klein, quote from No Logo
“Noah turned to face his younger sister, arching one brow to a fairly smug height. Lenga lifted a brow back at him, giving him a delicate smattering of applause.
“And I was afraid you would never learn the art of diplomacy,” she remarked, her lips twitching with her humor. “It merely took you the entire two and a half centuries of my life. Longer, actually. You had a few centuries’ head start.”
“Funny how you seem to recall the fact that I am far older than you only when it suits your arguments, my sister,” he taunted her, reaching to tug on her hair as he had been doing since her childhood.
“Well, I can say with all honesty that this is the first time I have ever seen you forgo a good argument with Hannah, opting for peace instead. I was beginning to wonder if you were my brother at all. Perhaps some imposter . . .”
“Legna, be careful. You are speaking words of treason,” he teased her, tugging her hair once more, making her turn around to swat at his hand.
“I don’t know how you convinced the entire Council that you were mature enough to be King, Noah! You are such a child!” She twisted her body so he couldn’t grab at her hair again. “And I swear, if you pull my hair once more like some sort of schoolyard bully, I am going to put you to sleep and shave you bald!”
Noah immediately raised his hands in acquiescence, laughing as Legna flushed in exasperation. For all her grace and ladylike ways, Noah’s little sister was quite capable of making good on any threat she made.
“I mean really, Noah. You are just about seven hundred years old. One would think you could at least act like it.”
― Jacquelyn Frank, quote from Gideon
“As usual she was in the "library," curled up with her back against his stomach, sitting on his folded legs. It was very comforting to be there.
The thing was, it was also beginning to feel a great deal like an embrace.
Not that she'd had a lot of experience with embraces. Once in a while as a child she had gotten a hug from someone, though not for a long while now. But-
This definitely felt like an embrace. It felt wonderful, in fact.
Was that wrong?”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from One Good Knight
“If I had to guess, nephew, I would surmise that you are not in direct trouble as such. However, I will confess to the distinct and unsettling feeling that very large, very ponderous and most momentous wheels have been set in motion. When that happens I believe the lessons of history tend to indicate that it is best not to be in their way. Even without meaning harm, the workings and progress of such wheels are on a scale which inevitably reduces the worth of individual lives to an irrelevance at best.”
― Iain M. Banks, quote from The Algebraist
“I begrudge making a career out of clothes, but Lyndon likes bright colors and dramatic styles that do the most for one’s figure, and I try to please him,” she was to say. “I’ve really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don’t sell for what you’re worth unless you look well.”
― Robert A. Caro, quote from Master of the Senate
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