“Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“Hey, bro, do you think you can put Shorty back on her chain?"
I stepped forward with my hands on my hips, only slightly intimidated to find Kaleb almost eye level with me when he was seated and I was standing.
"First of all, no one is the boss of me but me. Secondly, if you ever reference my 'chain' again, I will kick your ass." I jabbed him hard in the chest with my finger. Possibly breaking it. "And thirdly, don't call me Shorty."
Kaleb sat silently for a second, his eyes wide as he looked at Michael. "Where did you get her? Can you get me one?"
I blew out a loud, frustrated sigh and dropped down beside Michael, who didn't even try to hide his smile. "You should probably apologize to Emerson."
"I am sorry." Kaleb grinned at me. "Sorry I didn't meet you first.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“Aren't you just a knight in shining armor? ... Wherever do you keep your horse? And who scoops up the crap it leaves behind?”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“Offering to help me implies I'm in distress. I'm not currently.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“I love you - broken in pieces, whole, however. No matter what the future brings, no matter what was in the past.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn't hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“Your size makes you seem delicate, like a spiderweb. But the wise fly knows that delicate can also be strong.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“It's amazing what flipping a grown man over her shoulder does for a girl.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“Crazy like he's a serial killer, or crazy like he attends Star Trek conventions in full costume?"
"That's only crazy if you dress like a Klingon," I pointed out.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“My heart stumbled a little, but the tenderness in his voice kept me from falling.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“I walked in without knocking. The screen door banged to a close behind me announcing my presence. I followed my nose to the kitchen and found Kaleb standing by the stove. He stirred something that smelled absolutely delicious a wooden spoon in one hand and a huge chef’s knife in the other.
“Are you sober?” I asked from the doorway.
He turned and leveled a smile at me that made me a little wobbly. “I am."
“Good. Because if not I was going to take the deadly kitchen utensil away from you.” I crossed the room and pulled myself up to sit on the counter beside the stove. A cutting board full of green peppers and two uncut stalks of celery waited for attention from the knife. Melted butter and diced onions bubbled in a sauté pan on the stove. “You cook."
Kaleb was so pretty I was jealous. Pretty with ripped muscles and a tattoo of a red dragon covering most of his upper body. “Yes,” he said. “I cook.”
“Do you usually wear a wife beater and,” I pushed him back a little by his shoulder “an apron that says ‘Kiss the Cook’ while you’re doing it? ”
He leaned so close to me my heart skipped a couple of beats. “I’ll wear it all the time if you’ll consider it.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“If he wasn't already holding my heart in the palm of his hand, I would have taken it out and given it to him right then.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“No matter what your reality looks like, you're the girl I'm in love with today, and the same girl I'll be in love with tomorrow and all the days after that. Not just because of who you are, but because of who you were.
It's all part of your story, Em. And I want to be a part of your story, too.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“I smiled back as he walked away, but all the lovely butterflies in my stomach landed one by one in a cold, dead heap.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“Aren't I supposed to be brave, fearless? Isn't that what the world expects?"
"Screw what the world expects. Think about all the things you've faced. You cracked, but you didn't break. You're still standing. I'd call that fearless. You've already conquered so much.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“He took my face into his hands, using them to control the intensity and depth of our kiss, which quickly moved from sweet to reckless. It was the most lovely of assaults.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“You know, Scarlett, Rhett didn't give a damn, and frankly, I don't either.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“I wanted to be alone with him. Really alone. "Maybe we should take this back to my place." He lifted his head to look at me, a strange expression on his face. I let out a nervous giggle. "That sounded better in my head."
"It sounded pretty damn good out of it.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“Funny, gorgeous, and a genius. What a package." He backed out of the parking space, smiling as he drove away.
I loved that he left crazy off the list.
I loved it even more that he would never think to add it.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“I had a dilemma. I could find absolutely no good reason to slap the girl standing in the kitchen doorway. And I really wanted one.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“For a chance with you, I can wait.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“Getting a full-body buzz with a guy I'd just met was as weird as seeing dead people. But much more enjoyable.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“He bent down burying his face in my neck. I reached back to grab onto the iron bars behind me to hold myself up. My jacket slipped off my shoulders. I was pretty sure I was on fire and at that moment I would have sworn that bursting into flame was a glorious way to go.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“Lots of unbelievable things happened. Every day. Things like gravity.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“I’d never touched alcohol—doesn’t mix too well with crazy pills—but I knew at that moment what it must feel like to be drunk. Everything in my world shifted, and I knew I would trade every breath I’d ever taken for more of him. In a heartbeat.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“Tuxedo Guy looked even better the closer he got to us- tall wide shoulders, smooth skin, those lips.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“My breath caught in my throat.
Buttered biscuits and honey.
"You're not what I expected.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“I am sorry." Kaleb grinned at me. "Sorry I didn't meet you first.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
“Would you like to try this again then, another time?"
"I'd very much like to try this again, another time." He grinned, but it carried a touch of sadness. "I'll give you a second to...uh...fix your hair."
"My hair?"
"I'll give you a second to fix my hair. I mean, I'll give you a second while I go fix my hair." He let out a sigh. "I mean, I'll see you downstairs."
He turned to walk out of the room, but unfortunately, he forgot to open the door first. I managed to hold my laughter until he got it right.”
― Myra McEntire, quote from Hourglass
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“there are only two things which I believe—the first is that no mortal can refuse the Dark Gift once he really knows what it is.”
― Anne Rice, quote from The Tale of the Body Thief
“This last year I've felt like one of those snowflakes we used to make in school. The ones where you fold the paper a certain way and then keep cutting and cutting until the paper is shredded. That's what I look like, a paper snowflake. And each hole has a name. And nobody, not you, not me, can fill the holes that someone else has left. All we can do is keep each other from falling in the holes and never coming out again.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from Making Faces
“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
― Mark Twain, quote from The Prince and the Pauper
“The trial, despite the subserviency of the court to the Nazi authorities, cast a great deal of suspicion on Goering and the Nazis, but it came too late to have any practical effect. For Hitler had lost no time in exploiting the Reichstag fire to the limit. On the day following the fire, February 28, he prevailed on President Hindenburg to sign a decree “for the Protection of the People and the State” suspending the seven sections of the constitution which guaranteed individual and civil liberties. Described as a “defensive measure against Communist acts of violence endangering the state,” the decree laid down that: Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications; and warrants for house searchers, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed. In addition, the decree authorized the Reich government to take over complete power in the federal states when necessary and imposed the death sentence for a number of crimes, including “serious disturbances of the peace” by armed persons.8 Thus with one stroke Hitler was able not only to legally gag his opponents and arrest them at his will but, by making the trumped-up Communist threat “official,” as it were, to throw millions of the middle class and the peasantry into a frenzy of fear that unless they voted for National Socialism at the elections a week hence, the Bolsheviks might take over.”
― William L. Shirer, quote from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
“Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla?
Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to,
and not feel ashamed of it.”
― John Fante, quote from Ask the Dust
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