“I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?”
“It’s not about knowing. You can never really know someone. It’s really about trust.”
— Jameson Rook, Heat Rises”
“When you say things like that to me, I call it a Kardashian. Know why? Because I'm looking for the but.”
“Know why transparency's a beautiful thing? Transparency means no shame.”
“It's not about knowing. You can never really know someone. It's really about trust.”
“Rook asked, "Did you really stab him with an icicle?"
When she nodded, he said, "Please tell me you said FREEZE."
Richard Castle-- Heat Rises”
“Without noticing it, Heat had begun seeing herself as working for her Captain and lost sight of her guiding principle, that she worked for the victim.”
“Especially that. And pull stills of everyone”
“until years later when Captain Montrose canvassed the old crime”
“Oak and iron, guard me well, or else I'm dead, and doomed to hell.”
“Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’
To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?’
Perhaps not quite directly.”
“The obedience strip began to glow at 1492 steps, and with it came the pain. A hundred steps before the fence. Stabbing then easing, then stabbing harder. Like a branding iron sizzling skin at first touch, then easing in a rush of endorphins, only to turn into an inescapable agony as it bit deeper into the skin. Retra knew how branding felt. Seal girls and boys received theirs at puberty. The strong ones didn’t make a sound when the hot iron bit their flesh. Retra hadn’t been strong. Then.”
“I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain a dialogue with other people, I guess, or, better still, with oneself, that is to say, one talks or mumbles to oneself.”
“Becoming a vegan is not about self-denial; it’s more a matter of self-awareness. It is about trying new foods and broadening your palate, expressing the joy of being alive, and knowing that you’re making a daily effort to live less violently and more sustainably.”
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