“I appreciate the offer. I really do. But you can't put a price on independence, Blake.”
“I can't live without this Erica. Without you.”
“Then don't give up on us. Love me, damn it. Please baby. Let me love you.”
“Mine. You're mine. Just like this. Your body, your heart. Every part of you.”
“I think you have a fetish for office sex, sweetie, he whispered. You're my fetish, Blake”
“You're the only one Erica. There's never been anyone else.”
“Our story is the happiest one I know.”
“No one had made me feel this way, and no one ever would.”
“Do you feel me? It's me, baby. It'll always be me.”
“What kind of picnic did you have in mind”
“I love you, Blake. You're the only one. My only love.”
“What we were together had become so much more powerful, a force that took my breath away and made everything secondary.”
“I knew how to live with scars.”
“All I want you thinking about is being here with me, right now.”
“have you been up to?” She took a sip of her latte.”
“I'm drinking whiskey. Doesn't get much more real than this.”
“You won't give me access to the code , Erica. What the hell do you want me to do. It's not out of distrust, Blake. We need to be in control of the code for the long-term and you know that. Yet we all remain in the dark as to why we've been inexplicably and relentlessly attacked by this group.”
“Have you tried to reach out to them? No. I don't negotiate with terrorists.”
“Writing had never become routine for him, but remained a constant surprise. He was always surprised at how much fun it was, once it all got moving. And never failed to be surprised at how bloody hard it was. It was like having an intense, frustrating love affair with a capricious, gorgeous, and often mean-spirited woman.
He loved every moment of it.”
“whether the American people knew where they were driving.” He suspected they did not, “but that they might still be driving or drifting unconsciously to some point in thought, as their solar system was said to be drifting towards some point in space; and that, possibly, if relations enough could be observed, this point might be fixed. Chicago was the first expression of American thought as a unity; one must start there.”
“What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is all over with. All that remains is the respect. If I put my arms around you and told you that I missed you, I would be lying. You're alright with me and I wish you well. But you're not me and that makes you one of them and you can only get so close.”
“Leo hurried up to bed and hid under the covers. Under the covers he thought his life through. Although he soon fell asleep he could not sleep her out of his mind. He woke, beating his breast. Though he prayed to be rid of her, his prayers went unanswered. Through days of torment he endlessly struggled not to love her; fearing success, he escaped it. He then concluded to convert her to goodness, himself to God. The idea alternately nauseated and exalted him.”
“People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom”
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