“Love can be broken but never forgotten.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“You're in my head, you're in my heart, and I've lost so much already. I can't lose you too.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“Ben kissed me like he could kiss me forever, like he had to kiss me forever and he wanted to, he wanted me, and when he felt my surprise at that, I could feel again how beautiful I was to him, how I was beautiful beyond words.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“Sometimes you could get so turned around that even breathing became complicated.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“It was where I was supposed to be now. But it wasn't where I wanted to be.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“I was the girl who had hair like blood.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“I know what it's like to lose everything you had, to lose your whole life.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“All I saw was Ben, and I knew that all he saw was me. The whole world didn't - it was there, but it didn't matter.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“Mom said that loving art was just as important as being able to create it.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“We could be something amazing- or we could end up destroying each other.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“I hadn’t been that interested in a hug. I could get
them anytime.
Or at least, that’s what I’d thought.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered to be the source of the old joke, Failed In London Try Hong Kong. It was said that he had fled the London Bar, very young, very poor, on a sudden whim just after the War, and had done magnificently well in Hong Kong from the start. Being a modest man, they said, he had called himself a parvenu, a fraud, a carefree spirit.
Filth in fact was no great maker of jokes, was not at all modest about his work and seldom, except in great extremity, went in for whims. He was loved, however, admired, laughed at kindly and still much discussed many years after retirement.”
― Jane Gardam, quote from Old Filth
“There are about thirty of us,” Turtle said with a shrug. “THIRTY?” Tsunami shouted. “I have THIRTY BROTHERS?” “Well, thirty-two,” he said. His gaze caught Moon watching, and he wrinkled his snout in an amused way.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from Moon Rising
“The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.”
― Rainbow Rowell, quote from Eleanor and Park
“Just once I’d like to save the world at high noon like a cowboy.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“Everyone has two natures. One wants us to advance and the other wants to pull us back. The one that we cultivate and concentrate on decides what we are at the end.”
― quote from The Power of Concentration
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