“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
“Shit. You so fuckin pretty, Chessie. True thing. So … ain’t even can breathe sometimes.”
― Stacia Kane, quote from Chasing Magic
“Un picchiettare sommesso sui vetri lo fece voltare verso la finestra: aveva ricominciato a nevicare. Osservò assonnato i fiocchi neri e argentei che cadevano obliqui contro il lampione. Era giunto il momento di mettersi in viaggio verso occidente. Sì, i giornali dicevano il vero: c'era neve dappertutto in Irlanda. Cadeva ovunque nella buia pianura centrale, sulle nude colline; cadeva soffice sulla palude di Allen e più a ovest sulle nere, tumultuose onde dello Shannon. Cadeva in ogni canto del cimitero deserto, lassù sulla collina dove era sepolto Michael Furey. S'ammucchiava alta sulle croci contorte, sulle pietre tombali, sulle punte del cancello, sugli spogli roveti. E la sua anima gli svanì adagio adagio nel sonno mentre udiva lieve cadere la neve sull'universo, e cadere lieve come la discesa della loro estrema fine sui vivi e sui morti.”
― James Joyce, quote from The Dead
“Hearts are like stones on an ocean beach...And people are like the tides that leave permanent marks on them.”
― Loretta Ellsworth, quote from In a Heartbeat
“If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.”
― Ilona Andrews, quote from Fate's Edge
“In taking our marital arguments upstairs to avoid exposing the children to strife, we accidentally deprived them of chances to witness how two people who care about each other can work out their differences in a calm and reasoned way.”
― Po Bronson, quote from NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
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