“Now you're just being silly. He's a mercenary- he's not going to go about penning love letters, and really, what would he write? 'Anna...love you...grrr?'" Olivia to Annalia”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“She weighed no more than a feather as he lifted her, but he teased her, saying, "You weigh more than you look."
"You are weaker than you look," she immediately whispered.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“Olivia sat back and propped her half-boots on the table. 'So far it's working. He has to return to me because I have his sister hostage.' She briefly put her fingertips to her lips. 'Did I just say that? I mean I'm protecting the baby sister and earning his trust”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“Should I have held them down and poured boiling water over them until they talked? Really, I’d like your expert advice.
“Of course not. You would use boiling oil.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“As he slept, his heartbeat returned to slow and steady, lulling her. Before she joined him, she decided that she never wanted to sleep without that sound again.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“A woman who likes her whisky,” he said while refilling her glass. “Careful that you doona steal my heart, Annalía.” “It figures that the one requirement you’d have for your woman is ‘whisky drinker.’” “Aye, but that’s only after ‘walks upright.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“Perhaps Court was just an ignorant Scot, but he preferred two things in his surgeons: that they be sober, and that they have lived long enough to have practiced on others before getting to him.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“Polite conversation followed rules. Topics were sequential, orderly, and flowed from one to the next like a gentle current when all those conversing were skilled.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“he had to do was risk his life to keep her safe from the most vicious assassin order in Europe? And he got to kiss her, at his pleasure? He definitely had struck the better bargain.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“He’d given her his word—when he was soused and under duress from needing to tup her—but still his”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“He’d given her his word—when he was soused and under duress from needing to tup her—but still his word.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from If You Dare
“You put on a bishop's robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty soon you're a bishop. So to speak. What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from A Scanner Darkly
“The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned.
"Hey handsom" Mimi sent.
"What's up?" Jack replied, without speaking.
"Just thinking of you."
Jack's smile deepened, and he threw the rose back at her so that it landed in her lap. Mimi tucked it behind her ear and fluttered her eyelashes appreciatively.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Masquerade
“Chris says his father was born on the corner of straight and narrow...”
― John Marsden, quote from Tomorrow, When the War Began
“No road will bring us together."
"Don't speak like that."
"I'm serious. We are not meant to come together, not any more than sun and moon were meant to come together, or sea and land. We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Narcissus and Goldmund
“Pat said, “I’m living with Joe. I’m his mistress. Under our arrangement I pay his bills. I paid his front door, this morning, to let him out. Without me he’d still be in his conapt.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from Ubik
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