“I can't be anything but what I am, Elle. If you want a man who is going to treat you like a broken doll, you sure as hell come to the wrong place. And if you expect me to step aside and let you make decisions that are ultimately going to harm you, then baby, you definitely have the wrong man because I protect my woman. Right or wrong, politically correct or not, I stand in front of her when there's need.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Hidden Currents
“Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Hidden Currents
“You're my life, Elle. When we have our children, they'll be included in that circle and I'm not a man to lose everything. I want you as safe as possible."
"So you don't think three protection dogs, a room filled with weapons, a panic room and house that eats people isn't just a little overkill?”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Hidden Currents
“There's no room for him in your head, Elle. I'm there. I'll always be there and if he tries to come in I'll drive him out until you're strong enough to do it yourself. And there was never room for him in your heart because I was already there. He couldn't touch your soul. It belongs to you and no one else unless you decide to share.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Hidden Currents
“Well, put that lovely treasure back in your pants and calm down.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Hidden Currents
“Tačiau tai bergždžias darbas, ir kai vadiniesi Mikelandželu, Goja, Mocartu, Tolstojumi, Dostojevskiu ar Malro, numiršti negalėdamas atsikratyti jausmo, jog kurpei bakalėjos gaminius.”
― Romain Gary, quote from Promise at Dawn
“The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Ill-Made Knight
“Similarly the animal psychologist, Aristophanes, accidentally discovered the world's first joke while inquiring into the hitherto mysterious motivations of pathway-traversing fowl.”
― quote from Death: A Life
“I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“O alegre e claro espelho de minha alma era muitas vezes embaçado por uma espécie de melancolia mas, por ora, não havia sido seriamente danificado. Ela aparecia de tempos em tempos, durante um dia ou uma noite, como uma tristeza sonhadora e solitária; desaparecia depois sem deixar traços, voltando após algumas semanas ou meses. Aos poucos fui me habituando a ela, como a uma amiga e confidente, não a recebendo como um tormento, mas como um cansaço inquieto, que não deixava de ter seu encanto. Quando ela me surpreendia de noite eu ficava, em vez de dormir, horas inteiras à janela, olhava o lago mergulhado na escuridão, as silhuetas das montanhas desenhadas no palor do céu e bem no alto, as belas estrelas. Então apossava-se de mim com frequência um sentimento doce e vigoroso, como se eu fosse contemplado por toda aquela formosura da noite, com uma justa censura. Como se estrelas, montanhas e lagos aspirassem por alguém que compreendesse sua beleza e o sofrimento da sua natureza calada e a expressasse, como se eu fosse aquele ser e como se fosse essa a minha verdadeira missão. a de dar, em poesias, uma expressão à natureza muda. De que maneira isso seria possível não sei, jamais pensei nisso, apenas sentia que a bela e severa noite esperava por mim, impaciente, numa ânsia silente. (p. 42)”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Peter Camenzind
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