“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
“For a moment no one spoke. They just gave me the hard eyes. “Is this the part where I pee in my pants?” I asked. Coach Bobby started with the finger again. “Do you know the Landmark Bar in Livingston?” “Sure,” I said. “Tonight at ten. Back parking lot.” “That’s past my curfew,” I said. “And I’m not that kind of date. Dinner first. Maybe bring flowers.” “If you don’t show”—he moved in closer with the finger—“I will find some other way to get satisfaction. You get me?” I didn’t but before I could ask for clarification he stomped off. His buddies followed suit. They looked back at me. I gave them all a five-finger toodle-loo wave. When one of them let his stare linger past the comfort zone, I blew him a kiss. He turned away as if he’d been slapped. Blowing a kiss—my favorite rile-up-the-homophobe move. I”
― Harlan Coben, quote from Long Lost
“...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Der Goldkäfer
“While a trend shown in the past is a fact, a “future trend” is only an assumption.”
― Benjamin Graham, quote from Security Analysis: The Classic 1940 Edition
“Luca’s freedom was at the tips of her fingers.”
― Fiona Paul, quote from Belladonna
“Because I need you more right now than I need to breathe.”
― Angie Stanton, quote from Snapshot
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