“Funny thing about glass. When you broke the shit up, it got pissed and bit back.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“I'm an angel not a frickin' saint.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise."
And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming up his voice, sounding like a moose being backstroked by a chesse grater.
Jim shook his head at Eddie as the doors opened "How can you stand that racket?"
Selective deafness"
Teach me,master.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment.
"Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?"
Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be above and beyond any call of duty.
Over the guy's shoulder, the commercial that was on the TV suddenly showed a price of $49.99-no, $29.99, with a little red arrow that ... considering where Vin was standing, poined right at his head.
"Sh*t, no" Jim muttered. This was the guy?
On the Tv screen, some woman in a pink bathrobe smiled up at the camera and mouthed, Yes, it is!”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“No offense-but until I see it, I'm not going to believe it."
"And that is why you will fail."
Adrian cursed and hit the door. "Great, you've got him channeling Yoda again. Can we get moving before he levitates my fucking bike?”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance.
Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and belting out, “Booga-wooga!”
At least Eddie laughed. Adrian flipped Jim the bird and headed to the fridge for another beer.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“And I'm full aware of how much you don't like me at this moment"
Can't be a new thing for you" Jim said”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Time keeps on...slippin'...slippin'...slippin' into the future," Adrian drawled as he walked around”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Don't be an asshole," the guy snapped as he cracked a freshie.
"Oh, right, because two in this group would be overkill.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“I don't think we're fit for visual consumption."
Adrian reached up and cranked the rearview mirror his way. "Whatever, I'm gorgeous...wow. I..."
"Look like shit.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“...Jim finished his beer and wondered how in the hell he'd found himself in the role of Cupid. Man, if those four lads even thought about getting him to wear the wings and a diaper while he nocked his arrow, he was so renegotiating his employee contract. And not with words.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Last fight I had with the bitch ended way too soon."
Eddie rolled his eyes and glanced at Jim. "It was in the Middle Ages and he still hasn't gotten over it.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“In his old life, the answer would have been easy: He'd have just put a gun to Vin's head and dragged the fucker to the altar. Now? He needed to be a little more civilized.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Life is too frickin' crazy sometimes, it really is.... You never know what's going to happen, do you.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Am I going to have to die first before I come here every time? Because no offense, but for fuck's sake, I can just give you a cell phone to call.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“The collision was impending and electric, but the moment was soft and sweet: She positively glowed as she looked up at him.
"What," she whispered, palming his face.
Vin took a moment to memorize her features and the way she felt beneath him, seeing her not just through his eyes, but feeling her with his skin and his heart. "Hello, lovely lady...hello.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Maybe he had to stop thinking TVs were sending him messages. Because this was a dumb fucking idea.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“Sometimes dragon slayers... Were just slayers.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“ (...) - Zacharias - disse assim que atenderam.
Matthias, o sacana, riu baixinho.
- Juro que falo mais contigo do que com a minha própria mãe.
- Não sabia que tinhas uma. Pensei que tinhas saído de um ovo. (...)”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“You don’t have to be searching to find what you need.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“That’s the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you’ll always be using someone else’s reins.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“We were a little more fallen than the bosses were comfortable with.” Adrian grinned like a motherfucker. “As I mentioned, I like the ladies.” “Usually in pairs.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
“archway and hit the light switch for the”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Covet
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“Ramona could not understand why grown-ups always talked about how quickly children grew up. Ramona thought growing up was the slowest thing there was, slower even than waiting for Christmas to come.
She had been waiting years just to get to kindergarten, and the last half hour was the slowest part of all.”
― Beverly Cleary, quote from Ramona the Pest
“Andras went through the Sortie doors and walked out into a city that no longer contained his brother. He walked on benumbed feet in the new black Oxfords his brother had brought him from Hungary. He didn’t care who passed him on the street or where he was going. If he had stepped off the curb into the air instead of down into the gutter, if he had climbed the void above the cars and between the buildings until he was looking down at the rooftops with their red-clay chimney pots, their irregular curving grid, and if he had then kept climbing until he was wading through the slough of low-lying clouds in the winter sky, he would have felt no shock or joy, no wonder or surprise, just the same leaden dampness in his limbs.”
― Julie Orringer, quote from The Invisible Bridge
“But I know your blood doesn't define you. What defines you is the choices you make. If I've learned anything this year, it's that. And I also know that loving someone--even when it's scary, even when there are consequences--is never the wrong thing to do. Loving someone is the opposite of hurting her.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.”
― Diane Ackerman, quote from The Zookeeper's Wife
“Survival here means simply an incomplete death, not a partial life -- to be trapped in a gap between the living and the dead. If I had a thousand tongues, I would not try to describe the agony!”
― Matthew Pearl, quote from The Dante Club
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