“Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule's threatening to quit. Why don't you two try to show the younger guys it can be fun instead of taking a note out of everyone else's books and letting it drive you insane?
-Jonas”
― Lora Leigh, quote from Mercury's War
“I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we’re not here.” Lawe
tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. “Stay real quiet.
Don’t make eye contact.”
They all nodded.”
― Lora Leigh, quote from Mercury's War
“I need you more than I need freedom.”
― Lora Leigh, quote from Mercury's War
“You are my mate, Ria. In my soul. You are my mate.
~ Mercury”
― Lora Leigh, quote from Mercury's War
“Ria snorted. “Leo’s pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they
supposed to mate? The zebras?”
― Lora Leigh, quote from Mercury's War
“I hate Breeds,” she muttered. “Do you know that? You and your sharp, damned noses. Just because I want to doesn’t mean I should. Hell, I want cheesecake but I know better. It goes right to my hips. Does that mean I have to eat it anyway?”
He stared back at her in disbelief. “You’re comparing me to cheesecake?” Offended male fury and outrage glittered in his eyes.
She huffed, “Well, the same principle applies.”
― Lora Leigh, quote from Mercury's War
“Tu eres mi Compañera, Ria, En Mi alma tu eres mi Compañera~Mercury”
― Lora Leigh, quote from Mercury's War
“Otro hombre toca lo que es mío y lo mato. Lo destrozaría, Ria. Cualquiera que se atreva a intentar hacerte daño, y la locura será la menor de mis debilidades. Me destruirá. Eres mía-Mercury”
― Lora Leigh, quote from Mercury's War
“good night moon.
The music has slowed, my parka’s still tied around my waist, my sweaty head is nestled on Teague’s strapping shoulder, and I’m wondering what I possibly did in some past life to deserve such bliss, such a bounty of good fortune, when I feel a tap on the top of my head, and open my eyes to see Ava and T smiling at me.
Um, can you say, embarrassing!
I pull away from Teague and turn three shades of red.
Ava winks at me.
“Teague,” she says. “This is Tobias. Tobias, Teague.”
Teague and T shake and nod quietly, manly, the way guys do. “Glad to see you two made it,” says T.
“Yeah.” Teague squeezes my hand. “I had to be rescued.” He smiles, his magnetic dark eyes still dancing with me. “But thanks to Em--”
Em. I like that.
Em,
Em,
Em.
“Hey,” says Ava, “I hate to break it to you two, but--” She smiles sympathetically. “It’s time to go.”
My lower lip pops out in this pleeease type of goggley-eyed pleading that is entirely new to me but apparently not beneath me.
“I know,” says Ava. “But things are going to be ending here soon. And I’d rather you not drive, with people drinking tonight.” She pauses. “I’ll tell you what. Say your good-byes, Tobias is going to drive the truck, and I’m going to take you on the Honda. It’s late, I think that would be--”
Teague squeezes my hand again. “I’ve gotta get going too. It’s late, and--”
He hugs me. Tight. His arms are strong and warm and my face presses into his chest.
I shut my eyes and breathe him in.
I don’t let go first.”
― Megan Shull, quote from Amazing Grace
“The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from Being Peace
“...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.”
― Tove Jansson, quote from Moominpappa's Memoirs
“Now the maximum in any genus is the cause of all in that genus; as fire, which is the maximum heat, is the cause of all hot things. Therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection; and this we call God.”
― Thomas Aquinas, quote from Summa Theologica, 5 Vols
“There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.”
― Peter S. Beagle, quote from A Fine and Private Place
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