“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
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“That day in Chartres they had passed through town and watched women kneeling at the edge of the water, pounding clothes against a flat, wooden board. Yves had watched them for a long time. They had wandered up and down the old crooked streets, in the hot sun; Eric remembered a lizard darting across a wall; and everywhere the cathedral pursued them. It is impossible to be in that town and not be in the shadow of those great towers; impossible to find oneself on those plains and not be troubled by that cruel and elegant, dogmatic and pagan presence. The town was full of tourists, with their cameras, their three-quarter coats, bright flowered dresses and shirts, their children, college insignia, Panama hats, sharp, nasal cries, and automobiles crawling like monstrous gleaming bugs over the laming, cobblestoned streets. Tourist buses, from Holland, from Denmark, from Germany, stood in the square before the cathedral. Tow-haired boys and girls, earnest, carrying knapsacks, wearing khaki-colored shorts, with heavy buttocks and thighs, wandered dully through the town. American soldiers, some in uniform, some in civilian clothes, leaned over bridges, entered bistros in strident, uneasy, smiling packs, circled displays of colored post cards, and picked up meretricious mementos, of a sacred character. All of the beauty of the town, all the energy of the plains, and all the power and dignity of the people seemed to have been sucked out of them by the cathedral. It was as though the cathedral demanded, and received, a perpetual, living sacrifice. It towered over the town, more like an affliction than a blessing, and made everything seem, by comparison with itself, wretched and makeshift indeed. The houses in which the people lived did not suggest shelter, or safety. The great shadow which lay over them revealed them as mere doomed bits of wood and mineral, set down in the path of a hurricane which, presently, would blow them into eternity. And this shadow lay heavy on the people, too. They seemed stunted and misshapen; the only color in their faces suggested too much bad wine and too little sun; even the children seemed to have been hatched in a cellar. It was a town like some towns in the American South, frozen in its history as Lot's wife was trapped in salt, and doomed, therefore, as its history, that overwhelming, omnipresent gift of God, could not be questioned, to be the property of the gray, unquestioning mediocre.”
― James Baldwin, quote from Another Country
“Maxims of Ptahhotep spoke a lot of sense; 'Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.' Now THAT I’ll give the green light to. The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable as precious stones.”
― Karl Wiggins, quote from Dogshit Saved My Life
“Alayna,” his voice flowed over me like liquid sex. “I’ve got you.” I’ve got you. Boy, did he.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from Fixed on You
“In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“Curiously, the darkness seemed to have something to do with Harriet, Ron's intended, and I thought for a time that it was simply the reality of Harriet's arrival that had dramatized the passing of time: we had been talking about it and now suddenly it was here — just as Brenda's departure would be here before we knew it.”
― Philip Roth, quote from Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
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