“Everybody’s got a cage that keeps out the sharks. Those who open the door and venture out do so at their own risk.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
“Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
“remembered it while driving around all morning delivering search warrants at the local hospitals. “Speaking”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
“No matter what happens in the world, there will always be the need for heroes.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
“If we can’t be honest with ourselves, how can we ever tell the truth to the people out there?”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
“it and he says he wasn’t. I also knew where I was going. I knew it leveled off up there. He didn’t.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
“Brasher was alone with Stokes his calling might distract her and”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
“no longer tell if he was upset by being so far”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
“You people, Bosch thought. It was always said like that, as if the police were another species. The blue species which carried armor that the horrors of the world could not pierce. “When”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
“Do I need to explain how to make love to a woman? Because although I’ve never had the pleasure, I’m fairly certain it involves thrusting.”
― Leisa Rayven, quote from Bad Romeo
“Every moment nature is serving fresh dishes with the items of happiness. It is our choice to recognize and taste it.”
― Amit Ray, quote from Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
“money came from human misery and death and despair, as always it does.”
― Taylor Caldwell, quote from Captains and the Kings
“Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for that; it can change so that real mutuality--an equal gaze, equal vulnerability, equal desire--brings heterosexual men and women together.”
― Naomi Wolf, quote from The Beauty Myth
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