“Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.”
― Eileen Wilks, quote from Mortal Danger
“Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn’t paying attention,”
― Eileen Wilks, quote from Mortal Danger
“She wasn’t entertainment for him. He
didn’t need her to make him laugh or bolster his ego or to figure him out so he wouldn’t have to. A lot of men who said they were looking for a relationship really wanted a combination sex buddy, therapist, and mirror.”
― Eileen Wilks, quote from Mortal Danger
“But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.”
― Eileen Wilks, quote from Mortal Danger
“This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.”
― Eileen Wilks, quote from Mortal Danger
“…the same kind of answers the stars are always trying to give us, she thought, when we look up and up at them. So high above, speaking in gradual whispers about time, about their own flaming hearts and the endless cold that lies between…”
― Eileen Wilks, quote from Mortal Danger
“Not knowing… that could be as hard to handle as despair.”
― Eileen Wilks, quote from Mortal Danger
“His eyes made her think of water at night—full of mysteries and hints, revealing little.”
― Eileen Wilks, quote from Mortal Danger
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“Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“Depends on the dog. Big country dogs like these? Yeah. It's the fancy city ones that give me trouble. Overbred, Dad says. Makes them skittish and screws up their wiring. I had a Chihuahua attack me last year." He showed me a faint scar on his hand. "Took a good chunk out."
I sputtered a laugh. "A Chihuahua?"
"Hey, that thing was more vicious than a pit bull. I was at a park with Simon, kicking around a ball. All of a sudden, this little rat dog comes tearing out of nowhere, jumps up, and clamps down on my hand. Wouldn't let go. I'm shaking it, and the owner's yelling at me not to hurt little Tito. I finally get the dog off. I'm bleeding all over that place and the guy never even apologizes.”
― Kelley Armstrong, quote from The Awakening
“I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas?
Are you my Angel?”
― Allen Ginsberg, quote from Howl and Other Poems
“Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Crank
“Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from Starship Troopers
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