“Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale.”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“There are no simple answers to complex problems.”
― Valerio Massimo Manfredi, quote from Alexander: Child of a Dream
“From an early age, you’ve learned never to trust anyone but yourself. You let almost no one help you, but the ones you do allow into your life have special significance to you: you love them, even when sometimes you wish that you didn’t. Because when you love someone, Kricket, it means you’re completely loyal to that person, you’ll sacrifice anything for him—even your life. How am I doing so far?” I”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Sea of Stars
“And while positivity is the seed of many a great thing, wishful thinking alone doesn't make a good foundation for marriage.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from How to Fall in Love
“Love is a response to values. The amoralist’s actual self-appraisal is revealed in his abnormal need to be loved (but not in the rational sense of the word)—to be “loved for himself,” i.e., causelessly. James Taggart reveals the nature of such a need: “I don’t want to be loved for anything. I want to be loved for myself—not for anything I do or have or say or think. For myself—not for my body or mind or words or works or actions.” (Atlas Shrugged.) When his wife asks: “But then . . . what is yourself?” he has no answer.”
― Ayn Rand, quote from Philosophy: Who Needs It
“If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from Lost
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