“I eagerly await more complex concentricity in our Canadian coinage.”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise
“I would not say no to a tortoise, I said.”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise
“We drove out to Oregon City where the streets are all named after presidents in the order they were elected, so you can't get lost if you are American and you know your presidents.”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise
“I had to pretend you didn't exist. That's how much it hurt
She was still thinking if your safety p. 361”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise
“She was still thinking of your safety p. 362”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise
“تقوم كل علاقة غرامية على اتفاق غير مدوّن يبرمه العاشقان في الأسابيع الأولى من علاقتهما. يعيشان هذه الفترة في ما يُشبه الحلم، لكنهما في الآن نفسه - وبدون وعي منهما - يكونان بصدد كتابة الشروط التفصيلية للعقد الذي سيجمعهما. يا معشر العشاق خذوا حذركم من هذه الفترة الخطرة ! فإن قدمتم للطرف الآخر وجبة فطور في الفراش، كان عليكم أن تفعلوا ذلك مدى الحياة، وإلا اتهمتم بعدم الحبّ والخيانة.”
― Milan Kundera, quote from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“If you think someone is seriously on the prod for your ass, it keeps you awake.”
― Richard Bachman, quote from Thinner
“Pain always makes me antagonistic--are you any different?”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Petals on the Wind
“I didn't send them after you,' said the cool, familiar voice. 'I sent them after the Regent's Guard, who were making enough racket to raise the dead, the drunk, and those without ears.”
― C.S. Pacat, quote from Captive Prince
“Ah, it's an ill-conscience that's such an enemy to rest!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
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