“My boyfriend is a vampire and I'm okay with it. - Laney”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, quote from Laney
“Laney, I love you. I've found everything I've ever needed and wanted with you. I'm nothing without you.- Oliver”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, quote from Laney
“His arms wrapped around my waist from behind and he kissed my neck again, closer to the wound this time. My pulse accelerated. I wanted him to bite me; I wanted to be his.”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, quote from Laney
“Thank you for a wonderful night. Your carriage awaits downstairs. -Oliver”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, quote from Laney
“Theres something alluring and dangerous about him, but comforting and protective. When I think about him, my stomach knots, my heart rate quickens and...and I could go on... -Laney”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, quote from Laney
“We sat there in silence for a few minutes before he asked, "Is having sex with a werewolf considered bestiality?" -Carter”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, quote from Laney
“Yeah, over my scattered panties, I asked him to dinner and told him to bring a friend.” - Laney”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, quote from Laney
“Seriously, I ‘ve got to know if I need to protect you from people running with pencils." ~ Laney”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, quote from Laney
“My bookshelf was my favorite part of my room. It had a calming presence. Maybe there was something to be said about the feeling and presence of real books.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, quote from Awaken
“How yet resolves the governor of the town?
This is the latest parle we will admit;
Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;
Or like to men proud of destruction
Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,
A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,
If I begin the battery once again,
I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
Till in her ashes she lie buried.
The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,
In liberty of bloody hand shall range
With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.
What is it then to me, if impious war,
Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,
Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats
Enlink'd to waste and desolation?
What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,
If your pure maidens fall into the hand
Of hot and forcing violation?
What rein can hold licentious wickedness
When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
We may as bootless spend our vain command
Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil
As send precepts to the leviathan
To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
Take pity of your town and of your people,
Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;
Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
Of heady murder, spoil and villany.
If not, why, in a moment look to see
The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;
Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,
Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,
Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd? ”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry V
“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”
― Umberto Eco, quote from Baudolino
“Finally, the lawyer came to settle the estate. Mama,”
― Pam Muñoz Ryan, quote from Esperanza Rising
“probation. Jesus Christ was and is Jehovah, the God of Adam and of Noah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel, the God at whose instance the prophets of the ages have spoken, the God of all nations, and He who shall yet reign on earth as King of kings and Lord of lords.”
― James E. Talmage, quote from Jesus the Christ
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