“Can we talk?”
“Fuck off.”
“Good. You’re willing to cooperate.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“But owning the pain, running through it, overcoming it, was a matter of self-will and discipline.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“I’ve got your back, Doc. You can count on it. I would kill them before I let them touch you.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“Grief was an illness with me. Unfortunately it’s incurable. I’ve just learned to live with it.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“An affair? Jeff?”
“You think it’s beyond him?”
“No, I just can’t imagine him working up enough emotion or blood flow to get hard.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“While we try to find out what happened to her, there’s something you should keep in mind.”
Jess arched a brow. “Oh?”
“If Hayes Bannock has your wife, you probably top his shit list. Be afraid.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“If you wanted to kill me, why haven't you smothered me in my sleep?" "No sport in that." She gestured towards the ceiling. "Can I expect to be strung up on that bar and gutted like a deer?" He looked up at the bar and frowned. "Too much sport. Lots of heave-hoeing. Big mess to clean up after. Instead, why don't you just drink the poison-laced whiskey?" He extended the glass toward her again and when she didn't move he said, "No? Okay then." He shot the drink. She might not want the edge taken off but he sure as hell did.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“Fine. He had let her indulge in her hobby, while he’d indulged in his, and right now his was clenching her soft thighs against his pumping hips. He gave one last push and came. He wasn’t sure Alice did, but she was better than Emory at faking it.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“He took a long time to answer. “I asked which of her brothers had fathered the baby. She told me it could have been either.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“The bullies who instilled that hatred were never made to account. I think they should. I think they should because he died that day, too.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“He kissed her like he meant it, like this kiss was going to be the last thing he ever did on earth, and he was going to do it right, thoroughly, and leave nothing wanting.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“few minutes elapsed. The new logs made popping sounds as they caught. She watched the flickering patterns”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“If Hayes Bannock has your wife, you probably top his shit list. Be afraid.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“If she commits to something, it's forged in steel.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“across hers. “How did you sleep?”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“...He called up the numbness with which he armed himself to get through each day.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“back on it, he wondered why Knight hadn’t simply telephoned to ask. Had he and Grange been checking up on him? Did they still suspect him of wrongdoing? Call him paranoid, but… The door to the suite had narrow glass panels flanking it. Keeping his body out of sight, he peered through one of the panes. On the far side of the parking lot sat an unmarked car, noticeable because it was seemingly so innocuous. The driver’s door window had been lowered only far enough to accommodate a cigarette whose smoke curled up into the fog and became part of it. Amateur surveillance at best. But Jeff still had to get around it. He was deliberating on how to accomplish that when he heard Alice’s voice coming from the bedroom upstairs. Maybe she’d called the clinic to check in. Or maybe not. He crossed the living area to the staircase and climbed”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
“some were already at the Floyds’ place. Connell would also be on his way to help Hayes. Having just now reunited, Connell wouldn’t permit— The sharp curve appeared suddenly, and she saw it too late to avoid the collision. The car crashed into the gray wall of rock. The seat belt caught. The airbag deployed. It no doubt saved her life, but the impact was bruising. The interior of the car filled with choking powder. As soon as the bag deflated, she batted at it and groped blindly for the door handle. She all but fell out of the car, the hood of which had been squashed against the sheer rock face like a”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Mean Streak
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“How much such a little moon can do. There are days when everything about one is bright, light, scarcely stated in the clear air and yet distinct. Even what lies nearest has tones of distance, has been taken away and is only shown, not proffered; and everything related to expanse–the river, the bridges, the longs streets, and the squares that squander themselves–has taken that expanse in behind itself, is painted on it as on silk. It is not possible to say what a bright green wagon on the Pont-Neuf can then become, or some red that is not to be held in, or even a simple placard on the party wall of a pearl-grey group of houses. Everything is simplified, brought into a few right, clear planes, like the face in a Manet portrait. And nothing is trivial and superfluous. The booksellers on the quai open their stalls, and the fresh or worn yellow of their books, the violet brown of the bindings, the bigger green of an album–everything harmonizes, counts, takes part, creating a fulness in which nothing lacks”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, quote from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from The Robber Bride
“Eventually, my grandfather said:
- You must understand, this is one of those moments.
- What moments?
- One of those moments you keep to yourself.
…The story of this war… that belongs to everyone… But something like this— this is yours. It belongs only to you. And me. Only to us.”
― Téa Obreht, quote from The Tiger's Wife
“Did you see the way she ran out of here? Like I had the plague or something."
"Who? The witch?"
"Aye."
"And this bothers you because..."
"Well...it's rude."
"Uh huh."
Brastias growled at his second in command. "Shut up.”
― quote from Dragon Actually
“She clung to him, song after song, staring into his eyes they way she used to stare into mine.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Guard
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