Jenna Bayley-Burke · 248 pages
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“Love. It is an incredible sensation. An amazing gift. All consuming and yet as light as a whisper. Once you've been in love you don't ever want to find yourself out of it.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“Raise your expectations. If he thinks you’re worth it he’ll rise to the occasion.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“Never give someone more than you’re willing to lose,”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“That brief moment of being loved is worth any pain you have to endure at losing it.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“The man had a body that made her want to learn how to carve marble.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expression of sincere concentration he always wore while listening to editors. He thought of this as his Can I Help You, Lady? expression. That was because most editors were like women who drive into service stations and tell the mechanic to fix whatever it is that's making that knocking sound under the hood or going wonk-wonk inside the dashboard, and please have it done an hour ago. A look of sincere concentration was good because it flattered them, and when editors were flattered, they would sometimes give in on some of their mad ideas.”
― Stephen King, quote from Misery
“I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Idiot
“For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, quote from The Historian
“When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Neverwhere
“If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, quote from Speak
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