“It's strange how the people you care about least, sometimes know you the best. You let your guard down with them because you don't mind that they see you, warts and all.”
― Paige Toon, quote from Chasing Daisy
“Life can be snatched away from you in an instant, but if you don´t give yourself up to love, even with all the risks of losing it, life isn´t worth living.”
― Paige Toon, quote from Chasing Daisy
“You can't always wait for fate, you have to step in.”
― Paige Toon, quote from Chasing Daisy
“He told me he fell for me the moment I shouted at him from across the street when he almost ran me off my scooter. I told him it took me longer than that. He doesn't care. I love him now, and that's all that matters.”
― Paige Toon, quote from Chasing Daisy
“although my sudden goosebumps have nothing to do with the climate.”
― Paige Toon, quote from Chasing Daisy
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“Polite conversation followed rules. Topics were sequential, orderly, and flowed from one to the next like a gentle current when all those conversing were skilled.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.”
― Robert Harris, quote from Pompeii
“(...) Qual sera o destino de Helène? O meu, certamente. Que meios têm as mães de assegurar às suas filhas que o homem ao qual elas serão entregues será o esposo de seus corações? As pobres criaturas que se vendem por alguns trocados a um homem qualquer são humilhadas, mas a fome e a necessidade absolvem essas uniões efêmeras; enquanto a sociedade tolera e encoraja a união imediata, da mesma maneira horrível, de uma jovem menina ingênua e de um homem que ela mal conhecia há três meses; ela é vendida por toda sua vida. É verdade que o preço é alto! Se, não permitindo nenhum compensação a suas dores, ele será honrado; mas, não, o mundo calunia as mais virtuosas dentre nós! Este é nosso destino, visto sob duas faces: uma prostituição pública e a vergonha, e uma prostituição secreta e a tristeza. Quanto às pobres meninas sem dote, elas se tornam loucas, elas morrem; para elas, não há piedade! A beleza, as virtudes não são valores no bazar humano, e esse antro de egoísmo é chamado de Sociedade. Mas que as mulheres sejam deserdadas! Ao menos assim, uma lei da natureza será cumprida ao escolher as companhias, casando-as segundo a vontade de seus corações.”
― Honoré de Balzac, quote from A Woman Of Thirty
“He’s exquisite. Perfection made flesh.
Granted, he didn’t come out looking like this. A few hours ago, he bore a strong resemblance to a screaming featherless chicken.
But he was my screaming featherless chicken, so he was still the most beautiful fucking thing I’ve ever seen.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Twisted
“It was true what I'd once said about the stars - some things are seen more clearly in light...and some things are seen more clearly in darkness. Because somewhere in the dark of the night, Calder pulled me close to him and we agreed in ways both spoken and unspoken that the world was ugly and broken, and love was ridiculously dangerous and absurdly unsafe...and that we would love anyway.”
― Mia Sheridan, quote from Finding Eden
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