“Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“That's what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it's eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“It's not that kind of love. It's the real kind. The unconditional kind. The nonjudgemental kind. Not the physical kind. I love you as a fellow soul who inhabits this earth. I love you as a fellow immortal. I love you because I finally understand what made you the way you are. And if I could change it, I would. But I can't—so I choose to love you instead. And my hope is that my acceptance of you will spur you to do something good too, but if not—" I shrug. "At least I can say I tried.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Trust me, you can't play the game if you don't know the rules. And if you don't know the rules, someone's bound to get hurt.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“The only reason I lost, the only reason I failed to get what I want, is because the monster is me, there's no difference between us. It makes all the moves, calls all the shots, while I'm just along for the ride, with no idea how to pull the brakes or get off.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“No: What the heck happened?
Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture?”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“What if it can't be worked out? What if I'm—what if I'm broken for good?”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“And while I'm sure you feel that your particular mistake is extraordinarily big, insurmountable even, contrary to what you might think, these types of things can always be undone, and oftentimes aren't nearily as lethal as we think—or, should I say, as we allow them to be.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Because I don't have everything I want. Not even close.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“What we think about, what we concentrate on, will always, always, be reflected on the outside.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“...if this Roman dude’s as bad as you say, then why are you lurking outside his store looking all charged and heated like a dog waiting for its owner?”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Foolish Ever, don't you realize there's no longer any difference between you and your-monster? You are the monster. It's your dark side, your shadow self, and you've now joined as one.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“As above, so below, as within, so without.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Because the truth is, as committed as I am to clearing my energy and only focusing on the good, positive things that I want, life is still life.It's still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Either way, we'll ride out together. That's how it is with soul mates. Thats just what they do.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“I lay sweating, shaking, doing my best to quell the overwhelming need--to extinguish the dark flame inside me.
A flame that burns brighter, hotter, stronger each day.
A fire so insatiable it'll consume everything in its path.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Love is a gift. Passion is a curse”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Damen’s the one who loves more. He’d do anything for you. You’re just along for the ride.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“beast may be alive and well, but my heart and soul are now leading.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“That’s what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it’s eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“As above, so below, as within, so without”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
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“You say respect my elders, but what you mean is respecting my betters, is that not right? Are you so full of your own arrogance that you need me to bow and kowtow to you like some throwback fledgling? Or perhaps we should reinstate the role of concubines in our society. Then you may have the pleasure of claiming me and forcing me to fall to my knees, bowing low in respect of your masculine eminence!”
Gideon watched as she did just that, her gown billowing around her as she gracefully kneeled before him, so close to him that her knees touched the tips of his boots. She swept her hands to her sides, bowing her head until her forehead brushed the leather, her hair spilling like reams of heavy silk around his ankles.
The Ancient found himself unusually speechless, the strangest sensation creeping through him as he looked down at the exposed nape of her neck, the elegant line of her back. Unable to curb the impulse, Gideon lowered himself into a crouch, reaching beneath the cloak of coffee-colored hair to touch her flushed cheek. The heat of her anger radiated against his touch and he recognized it long before she turned her face up to him.
“Does this satisfy you, my lord Gideon?” she whispered fiercely, her eyes flashing like flinted steel and hard jade.
Gideon found himself searching her face intently, his eyes roaming over the high, aristocratic curves of her cheekbones, the amazingly full sculpture of her lips, the wide, accusing eyes that lay behind extraordinarily thick lashes. He cupped her chin between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand, his fingertips fanning softly over her angrily flushed cheek.
“You do enjoy mocking me,” he murmured softly to her, the breath of his words close enough to skim across her face.
“No more than you seem to enjoy condescending to me,” she replied, her clipped words coming out on quick, heated breaths.
Gideon absorbed this latest venom with a blink of lengthy lashes. They kept their gazes locked, each seemingly waiting for the other to look away.
“You have never forgiven me,” he said suddenly, softly.
“Forgiven you?” She laughed bitterly. “Gideon, you are not important enough to earn my forgiveness.”
“Is your ego so fragile, Legna, that a small slight to it is irreparable?”
“Stop talking to me as if I were a temperamental child!” Legna hissed, moving to jerk her head back but finding his grip quite secure. “There was nothing slight about the way you treated me. I will never forget it, and I most certainly will never forget it!”
― Jacquelyn Frank, quote from Gideon
“I’m the leader of this herd of cats,” she responded. “I doubt my sanity every day.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from One Good Knight
“It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-changing meta-civilisation of other beings, because, until then, during the stage when they honestly believed they might be entirely alone in existence, all solo societies were possessed of both an inflated sense of their own importance and a kind of existential terror at the sheer scale and apparent emptiness of the universe.”
― Iain M. Banks, quote from The Algebraist
“Then Lyndon Johnson came to Jim Rowe’s office again, to plead with him, crying real tears as he sat doubled over, his face in his hands. “He wept. ‘I’m going to die. You’re an old friend. I thought you were my friend and you don’t care that I’m going to die. It’s just selfish of you, typically selfish.’ ” Finally Rowe said, “ ‘Oh, goddamn it, all right’ ”—and then “as soon as Lyndon got what he wanted,” Rowe was forcibly reminded why he had been determined not to join his staff. The moment the words were out of Rowe’s mouth, Johnson straightened up, and his tone changed instantly from one of pleading to one of cold command. “Just remember,” he said. “I make the decisions. You don’t.”
― Robert A. Caro, quote from Master of the Senate
“He therefore proceeded to build a bridge a little above the place where he had crossed before. As the method of construction was familiar to the soldiers from the previous occasion, they were able by energetic efforts to complete the task in a few days.”
― Gaius Julius Caesar, quote from The Conquest of Gaul
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