“You have captured me utterly, and you hold my heart in your hands. Be gentle with it. It's more fragile than you might think.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“You humble me, Nikki. Don't you see that? It must be clear from my expression that I do not, because he goes on. "If I do all those things for you--soothe you, center you, give you strength--then that is worth more to me than every penny I have earned building Stark International.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“If that’s what it takes to protect you, I will leave you. Even if it kills me.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“How can you make love to me with only the whisper of a touch?
I'm a very resourceful man. I thought you knew.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Nikki, darling, light of my life. Can I have my driver take you to work?”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“He shifts so that I can see him better, then draws an "x" over his heart. I raise a brow, and he lifts two fingers in a Boy Scout salute. I hold back a laugh, and he holds up his pinkie finger. "Shall we pinkie swear ?”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“He cocks his head to the side as if listening. "There. Did you hear it?"
"What?"
"The clink of coins as I just earned a few thousand more."
I roll my eyes.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“He spent so long building walls to protect his privacy that I think he forgot to build a door.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“An entire empire needing his attention, and yet in that moment, I am his whole world.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Poor you.” I twist in his arms and plant a gentle kiss on his chin as he tightens the sash around my waist. “Just like Alexander. No worlds left to conquer.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Please, Damien. You can’t control the world? So what? Control me.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I believe a megalomaniac is someone who suffers from delusions about their own power. Trust me," he says, and this time I am certain I see mirth dancing in his eyes, "I suffer no delusions about the extent of my power.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Thank you. Right emotion. Crappy execution.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“And so I struggle against my bonds, not because I want to get free, not even because I want the pain. I want what it represents. That I am Damien’s. Bound to him. Marked by him. Claimed by him.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Don't you dare feel sorry for 'could have'.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“He won't be happy until he's banging the next big thing. And while he'd prefer a female, I think he'd fuck anything that moves if he thinks it'll ease his climb to the top. Male, female, or small farm animal.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I have no idea what time it is in London, and have had too much wine to bother with the math to figure it out.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I want it,” I repeat. “And not because I need the pain. But because I need you.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Your breasts. Your nipples. The insides of your thighs. I want you wet for me, baby. A little drunk and a whole lot wet.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“A game, yes. But I like it. In this game, there are no losers.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I think I understand what Damien needs. Not the pain, but the control.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Mostly, it will make me feel better. Please, Nikki. Right now I’m asking. Don’t make me demand.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I want to soothe him, want to stroke his cheek and run my fingers through his hair. I want to pull his head to my breast and whisper soft words, and I want to make love to him slowly and sweetly until the shadows of the night are gone and the morning light bathes us in color.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“You'll be thinking of me, won't you, baby.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I have to concede that I have often needed things that are not only bad for, but very, very dangerous.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“I assumed he knew that your coach was abusing you. I realized in the limo that he didn't."
For a moment, there is only silence. When Damien speaks, his words are ice cold. "He knew.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“There is power in his touch, power in the slightest look. He is a hard man who commands a billion-dollar enterprise, and right now I am simply one more thing that he owns.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“You owe me now, mister. You can't expect to steal a woman's pastry and get away with it.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
“Wherever I am, you belong. You’re mine. Say it.”
― J. Kenner, quote from Claim Me
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“This was the writer's true doppelgänger, I thought; not some invisible imp of the perverse who watched you from the shadows, periodically appearing, dressed in your clothes and carrying your house keys, to set fire to your life; but rather the typical protagonist of your work -- Roderick Usher, Eric Waldensee, Francis Macomber, Dick Diver -- whose narratives at first reflected but in time came to determine your life's very course.”
― Michael Chabon, quote from Wonder Boys
“One woman sent me on a letter written to her by her daughter, and the young girl's words are a remarkable statement about artistic creation as an infinitely versatile and subtle form of communication:
'...How many words does a person know?' she asks her mother. 'How many does he use in his everyday vocabulary? One hundred, two, three? We wrap our feelings up in words, try to express in words sorrow and joy and any sort of emotion, the very things that can't in fact be expressed. Romeo uttered beautiful words to Juliet, vivid, expressive words, but they surely didn't say even half of what made his heart feel as if it was ready to jump out of his chest, and stopped him breathing, and made Juliet forget everything except her love?
There's another kind of language, another form of communication: by means of feeling, and images. That is the contact that stops people being separated from each other, that brings down barriers. Will, feeling, emotion—these remove obstacles from between people who otherwise stand on opposite sides of a mirror, on opposite sides of a door.. The frames of the screen move out, and the world which used to be partitioned off comes into us, becomes something real... And this doesn't happen through little Audrey, it's Tarkovsky himself addressing the audience directly, as they sit on the other side of the screen. There's no death, there is immortality. Time is one and undivided, as it says in one of the poems. "At the table are great-grandfathers and grandchildren.." Actually Mum, I've taken the film entirely from an emotional angle, but I'm sure there could be a different way of looking at it. What about you? Do write and tell me please..”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, quote from Sculpting in Time
“It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“The love of a good man, for a good woman. The love of good friend for each other. The love of parents for children, and children for parents. The love of brothers and sisters. The memory of joy and grief, which all becomes joy when enough time has passed. This is the treasure that I have won through all the years of my journey through this life.... And every bit of it I'll take with me beyond the grave. I'll meet God then... and I will take all these treasures and lay them out before his feet, for God can see them easily even if mortal man cannot. And I'll kneel before the treasures and say, "O God, I thank thee for giving these to me during my life on Earth. No daughter has been better loved than I, nor any wife, nor any mother. I never deserved them. They were not mine by right. But I hope that, having been given such gifts so undeservingly, I used them well, and gave back to thee a life that was worthy.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Sarah
“For every terrorist we kill, there’s another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They’re like shark’s teeth: break one and another will rise in it’s place.”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Kill Artist
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