“Gently I touched his arm."Consider your promise fulfilled. You can go home now."
He raised his head to pierce me with his dark, anguished eyes. "I'm trying to -- if you'd stop fighting me with every breath."
"Don't be absurd. Chicago's not your home."
"No," he said. "You are.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“Yoga’s nothing but young girls twistin’ themselves into pretzels and prayin’ to the devil.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“You need to let yourself be forgiven.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“My philosophy had always been to do the leaving first.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“Just once I’d like to save the world at high noon like a cowboy.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“Stop torturing yourself and just let go. Surrender all the guilt, the pain, everything you’ve been carrying — leave it all here.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“She’s Eponine — but of a platonic sort. You’re my Cossette.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
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“I mean no disrespect to the gentlemen of the bench, but it is no secret that our system of justice, praised throughout Europe for its severity and its swiftness, is a terrible and fearful thing, and no man, guilty or innocent, wishes to stand before it.”
― David Liss, quote from A Conspiracy of Paper
“you saw him, said hello, how’s tricks . . .”
― Richard Price, quote from Clockers
“You will do yourself a disservice if you confine your reading to the rising star whose six-figure, two-book contract might seem to indicate where your own work should be heading. I’m not saying you shouldn’t read such writers, some of whom are excellent and deserving of celebrity. I’m only pointing out that they represent the dot at the end of the long, glorious, complex sentence in which literature has been written.”
― Francine Prose, quote from Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
“It was one of those moments when you can look in someone else’s eyes and see your own reflection so sharp and true that it slices like glass.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Strange Candy
“Away acrost his valley he sees Black Mountain rising jagged to the sky...and if he looks to the left on past it, he sees all the furtherest ranges, line on line. Purple and blue and blue again and smoky until you can't tell the mountains apart from the sky. Lord, it'll make a man think something, seeing that. It'll make a man think deep.”
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