“Sure, they all have iPods, smartphones, whatever. Generally speaking, it’s in our own best interest to keep some kind of electronic device in their hands. Otherwise they might talk to us.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“It’s not the flying that’s the hard part; it’s the landing.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it?”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“I know you have a past, but personally, I’m vested in our future.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“I’d clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“asked Thomas; it’s just him and me and has been for a very long time. We tell each other we are”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“look at him. But I can’t. Too many things are exploding in my head, and the memories are both simpler and more horrible”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“couloir étroit en l’aidant à contourner les obstacles, à savoir les camés en”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“chore. You didn’t like me doing”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“Because what is love if not an exercise in faith.
Because what is love if not perseverance.
Because what is love if not forgiveness.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“I want to take my time with you, Rylee. I want to build you up nice and slow and sweet like you need. Push you to crash over that edge. And then I want to fuck you the way I need to. Fast and hard until you’re screaming my name. The way I’ve wanted to since you fell out of that storage closet and into my life. Once we leave this elevator, I don’t think I’ll have enough control to stop … to pull away from you, Rylee. I. Can’t. Resist. You.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Raced
“My family had been in a refugee camp for a year and I was thirty-one years old when the government of Israel arranged through secret channels to fly all the Jews of Yemen to Israel. It was unofficially called Operation Magic Carpet, and officially called Operation On Wings of Eagles. When our people refused to enter the airplanes out of fear—for especially our brethren from the North had no experience with modernity—our rabbis reminded them of divine passages. “This is the fulfillment of ancient prophecy,” they said. “The eagles that fly us to the Promised Land may be made of metal, but their wings are buoyed aloft by the breath of God.” Between June 1949 and September 1950 almost fifty thousand Yemenite Jews boarded transport planes and made some 380 flights from Aden to Israel in this secret operation.”
― Nomi Eve, quote from Henna House
“There was probably something very wrong with the fact that an exchange of death threats made Malick all warm and fuzzy, but there it was.”
― Carole Cummings, quote from Incendiary
“Who wasn't squatting in one of the handful of prefabricated subject positions proffered by capital or whatever you wanted to call it, lying every time she said "I"; who wasn't a bit player in a looped infomercial for the damaged life?”
― Ben Lerner, quote from Leaving the Atocha Station
“Your best kicks ass and takes names,” Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
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