“You’re the light in all this madness. You’re my light. I should have been with you...” The thought hit him as his face crumpled in amazement. “Oh God, why am I not with you?”
“Because you’re an idiot,” I said.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“I want you to stay with me,” he said. “And that’s the problem. Every time you leave me, I need you a little bit more.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“Why are you so pissed off?" he asked, sounding genuinely surprised. Sometimes I wondered if Dex actually had any recollection of 90% of the conversations he was involved with.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“The things I want to do to you…” he whispered roughly.
I took my hand behind his head and brought his ear down to my mouth. “Do them,” I breathed back, and licked the rim of his ear.
He let out a small moan and suddenly his lips were on mine. The sweet business was out of the way.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“Dex isn't a big guy by any means. He's on the short side and toned but still thin. But he has unpredictable pit-bull tactics and one hell of a lippy attitude with strangers. For heaven's sake, never give that man a shovel.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“For once, I felt everything. And the biggest thing I felt was the way I felt about you. That was like a hammer to the heart.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“And you and Dex?”
“What about us?” …
“What’s the deal with you?”
“There is no deal. We’re just partners.”
“Are you sure? Because we all have bets on whether you guys are banging each other or not.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“If I thought I was head over heels for him before, this time I was so far gone, it’s like I fell into my own grave. Head over heels and down a whole. Bury me with dirt, stick a stake into my heart, and call it a day.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“It was fucking weird. They had gone from a sickening, "in love" couple doing a duet to the complete opposite in the span of two songs. Who knew the Beatles were still so controversial.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“Ada:
"Dude, nothing matters. You’re going to go to that Christmas party looking like a million bucks and you’re going to show that stupid whore who’s the boss”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“It’s not magic, Perry. You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever known and before you say anything, you’ve always been that way to me.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“Kiddo,” Jenn repeated. “Why do you always call her that? She’s not that young.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“It's nice to meet you again, Jimmy," I said, taking my hand back and looking him straight through his glasses. "I hope the way you're ogling me means you're going to start paying me more.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
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“[T]he unnamed soldier is a gift. The named soldier--dead, melted wax--demands a response among the living...a response no-one can make. Names are no comfort, they're a call to answer the unanswerable. Why did she die, not him? Why do the survivors remain anonymous--as if cursed--while the dead are revered? Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold?
Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”
― Steven Erikson, quote from Deadhouse Gates
“Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.”
― Heather Gudenkauf, quote from The Weight of Silence
“He'd never seen one so vibrant, though, or so vividly compelling... those glowing green eyes sparkling with sunlight and curiosity and silent laughter, and when she glanced in Henry's direction, she held his gaze, a look that was both challenging and enigmatic... He was utterly certain that this was Eleanor of Aquitaine, and no less sure that the French King must be one of God's greatest fools.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from When Christ and His Saints Slept
“Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)”
― Mary Doria Russell, quote from Children of God
“There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil and how to be bad. The Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments, and no team of authors to write his biography. His case has gone completely by default. We know nothing about him but a lot of fairy stories from our parents and schoolmasters. He has no book from which we can learn the nature of evil in all its forms, with parables about evil people, proverbs about evil people, folklore about evil people. All we have is the living example of people who are least good, or our own intuition.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Casino Royale
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