“It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn’t right under your nose.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Kisscut
“Yeah?” “I miss the way you taste.” She tried to sound bored. “It’s still Colgate.” “That’s not the taste I was talking about.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Kisscut
“This sheriff goes into a saloon and says, “I’m lookin’ for a cowboy wearing a brown paper vest and brown paper pants.’ He waited a beat, making sure Sara was listening. ‘The bartender says, “What’s he wanted for?” And the sheriff says, “Rustling.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Kisscut
“Okay. Good.’ He fumbled for his keys and held them out to her, but she did not take”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Kisscut
“As if they could understand what she had been through. As if they knew what it was like to be strong and invincible one day and completely powerless the next.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Kisscut
“[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don't you know it? I don't, surely, need to tell you?-And that is what leadership means. It means fortifying the fainthearted and giving them the two sides of your tongue while you are at it. It means suffering weak love and schooling it till it matures. It means giving up you privicies, your follies and your leasure. It means you can love nothing and no one too much, or you are no longer a leader, you are led.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from Queens' Play
“We are all born with the ability to make our own choices. But once you make the wrong choice, other people make your decisions for you. 18.”
― Gennifer Choldenko, quote from Al Capone Does My Shirts
“A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.”
― R.A. Salvatore, quote from Streams of Silver
“The bankers got the free use of the money a part of the time, the brokers another part: the officials made money, and the brokers received a fat commission.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from The Financier
“The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run than fact.”
― David Malouf, quote from Johnno
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