“You lose yourself, Erica, because with the right person, who you become together is something so much greater, more than you could even realize right now.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“You were right. I'm going to make you want things you never knew you wanted.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“He shook his head and raked his hands through his hair. "I'm sorry, Erica, but I'm going to fix this. I promise."
I nodded, trusting he would.
Said by Blake to Erica”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“Baby, this is who I am. I'm hardwired this way. And if I'm trying to take control over the situation, please understand that I have very solid reasoning for it.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“I love you, and I'm going to do whatever I need to do to protect you. Do you understand?”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“Jesus, Erica, I'd walk through fire to make sure you were safe.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“Because it's true. Erica, one horrible experience doesn't define you. If it did, I doubt you'd want to be with me either.
"I do," I said.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“I want you too. I'll probably lose my mind if I can't be inside you tonight." He exhaled a shaky breath. "I just don't want to...freak you out.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“I love you and I want to do this for you. I trust you to take me as far as you think I can go.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“Landon? The door flug open, and I forgot how to breathe. Holy shit.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“I miss my mother every day,” I said. “But this is my life and everything that has made me who I am, so I can’t dwell on what might have been.” I’d always be out of step with most people my age who’d been given many more chances to get it right, whose parents were there to scoop them up when they faltered and to point them in the right direction when indecisions were met. I had quickly learned that my own safety net had sizeable gaping holes in it, which likely explained why lately I felt like I was at sea without a life preserver.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“You’re allowed to want different things in bed than you do in your normal everyday life.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“you were right. im going to make you want things you never knew you wanted”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“her love echoed through me, a wordless melody that held my heart through time and distance.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“Love can sneak up on you in a heartbeat, even when you aren’t looking for it.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“you wer right. im going to make you want things you never knew you wanted”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“Boston was a hard city sometimes. The winters were hell, but the people here were strong, passionate, and often painfully direct.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hardwired
“Maybe. We're all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair!”
― Glen Cook, quote from Chronicles of the Black Company
“He had tried rather unsuccessfully to cheer her up and give her confidence”
― L. Ron Hubbard, quote from Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
“That’s our cue,” Dr. Chadwick noted, managing to approximate a cheerful smile, addressing the room at large. “Everyone please stand behind the yellow line until the doors open. No food, drink, flash photography, or video cameras are permitted. Once aboard the ride, please keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times until we come to a full and complete stop. Otherwise, they’re apt to end up in another universe somewhere without ya, and wouldn’t that fry your noggin?”
― Stephanie Osborn, quote from The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival
“The history of the twentieth century, he pointed out, is replete with instances of the tragedy that overtakes democracy when a leader who has risen to power on the crest of a popular wave or with the support of a democratic organisation becomes a victim of political narcissism and is egged on by a coterie of unscrupulous sycophants who use corruption and terror to silence opposition and attempt to make public opinion an echo of authority. The Congress as an organisation dedicated to democracy and socialism has to combat such trends.”
― Ramachandra Guha, quote from India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
“feeling so far is that standardized testing and performance-based salaries are likely to push education from social norms to market norms. The United States already spends more money per student than any other Western society. Would it be wise to add more money? The same consideration applies to testing: we are already testing very frequently, and more testing is unlikely to improve the quality of education. I suspect that one answer lies in the realm of social norms. As we learned in our experiments, cash will take you only so far—social norms are the forces that can make a difference in the long run. Instead of focusing the attention of the teachers, parents, and kids on test scores, salaries, and competition, it might be better to instill in all of us a sense of purpose, mission, and pride in education. To do this we certainly can’t take the path of market norms. The Beatles proclaimed some time ago that you “Can’t Buy Me Love” and this also applies to the love of learning—you can’t buy it; and if you try, you might chase it away.”
― Dan Ariely, quote from Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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