“A challenge is something you stop wanting once you acquire it. I can’t know if you’re a challenge yet until I make you mine.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“My ovaries kind of like him.” I add, “A little,”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“I feel him brush the grape over my lips again. Instinctively, sensually, I open my mouth and let him feed it to me, breathing hard. By the time I swallow, his smile is gone.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“Livingston, if you could read my mind, you would start feeling really shy around me.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“The company I’ve been keeping doesn’t seem to satisfy me anymore,” he whispers in my ear.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“I'd say people respond to me on four levels and four levels only; they want to pray to me, be me, do me or kill me.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“We don’t fit,” I say. “I just want to find a spot, warm not cold, with a nice view, everything I could want, and I want to stop moving and stay there—in that spot. And you will never stand still.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“No picture I saw online truly captured the effect of that tanned, well-structured face in person. Absolutely none. His face is walk-straight-into-a-wall stunning, and I won’t even dwell on his body, but now I understand why his bed is the most coveted spot in town.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“T."
One word, one letter, from Malcom.
"Yeah, Saint?" Tahoe returns, lifting his eyebrows.
"Dibs.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“Picasso’s mother told him if he got into the army, he’d be a general. If he became a monk, he’d be the pope. Instead he was a painter and became Picasso.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“I want to know what it’s like to lie next to him without anything between us.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“You’re so fragile you’ve boxed yourself up so you don’t break.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“There’s no point to love. Truth, loyalty—there’s something that lasts”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“I am in love with stories. How they shape our lives. How they mark people who don't even know us. How they can impact us even when an event didn't exactly occur in our own lives”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“I soon discovered he was not a man of many words, but rather a man of the right words.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“You think me relentless?
I'm much worse than that.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“my mother kept quoting Picasso’s mother. “Picasso’s mother told him if he got into the army, he’d be a general. If he became a monk, he’d be the pope. Instead he was a painter and became Picasso. That’s exactly how I feel about you. So do, Rachel, what you love.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“But it still feels like there’s a popularity contest here I didn’t sign up for.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“me has a perfectly structured face, beautiful lips, and eyes greener”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“I never expected my story to change, but it did. Stories tend to do that; you go out searching for something and come back with something different.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“There’s never a right time for you to fall. It’s why they call it falling. It’s an accident. In one second. Just pray that wherever you land, you’re not there alone.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“Stories change. Just like people change. We change when we suffer, when we take, when we give, when we love. When you lose the object of your love, your normal will be perennially changed; there’s no returning to the old anymore. You have to rebuild stronger walls, change your expectations, and wait for the sunlight.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“I’m burning to my bones. Beyond”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“I’d do it all again for another moment with him. I’d do it all again with him. I’d leap blindly into the air if only there were even a 0.01 percent chance that he’d still be there, waiting to catch me.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“I think you like teasing me."
"Maybe because I like the way you blush.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“Rachel, there is nothing I won't do to get you in my bed.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“But there’s this one girl. My private property.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“And him, in that killer suit, his head bent, his eyes shielded behind his aviators. No comment, the caption says. But the finger says plenty.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“And this was the surprising thing about life on Berk. It was a bit like the sea itself. One minute it was all storms, and shipwrecks, and desperate escapes from deadly dragons, the next it was as calm, and peacefully restful, as if these things had never happened.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
“I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.”
― Jeanette Winterson, quote from The Powerbook
“Everything has its "that," everything has its "this." From the point of view of "that" you cannot see it, but through understanding you can know it. So I say, "that" comes out of "this" and "this" depends on "that" - which is to say that "this" and "that" give birth to each other. But where there is birth there must be death; where there is death there must be birth. Where there is acceptability there must be unacceptability; where there is unacceptability there must be acceptability. Where there is recognition of right there must be recognition of wrong; where there is recognition of wrong there must be recognition of right. Therefore the sage does not proceed in such a way, but illuminates all in the light of Heaven. He too recognizes a "this," but a "this" which is also "that," a "that" which is also "this." His "that" has both a right and a wrong in it; his "this" too has both a right and a wrong in it. So, in fact, does he still have a "this" and "that"? Or does he in fact no longer have a "this" and "that"? A state in which "this" and "that" no longer find their opposites is called the hinge of the Way. When the hinge is fitted into the socket, it can respond endlessly. Its right then is a single endlessness and its wrong too is a single endlessness. So, I say, the best thing to use is clarity.”
― Zhuangzi, quote from Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings
“Unlike the God whose name begins with a capital letter, our gods are not all-powerful, Louis. Can you imagine that? Any one of them can be vanquished by a flamethrower or a bulldozer or a bomb—silenced, driven away, enfeebled. Sit in the middle of a shopping mall at midnight, surrounded by half a mile of concrete in all directions, and there the god that was once as strong as a buffalo or a rhinoceros is as feeble as a moth sprayed with pyrethrin. Feeble—but not dead, not wholly extinguished. Tear down the mall and rip up the concrete, and within days that place will be pulsing with life again. Nothing needs to be done, beyond carting away the poisons. The god knows how to take care of that place. It will never be what it was before—but nothing is ever what it was before. It doesn’t need to be what it was before. You’ll hear people talk about turning the plains of North America back into what they were before the Takers arrived. This is nonsense. What the plains were five hundred years ago was not their final form, was not the final, sacrosanct form ordained for them from the beginning of time. There is no such form and never will be any such form. Everything here is on the way. Everything here is in process.”
― Daniel Quinn, quote from The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“The rebel leader and the priest.”
― Alyssa Day, quote from Atlantis Rising
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