“Holding on to the past means you can never be open to having a future”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Obsidian
“His voice deepened. "Sign them. We´re in the bedroom and i´m giving you an order.”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Obsidian
“Love is so complicated. I’m glad I don’t suffer from it and hope I never do. It’s amazing how smart, strong people turn into frail, frightened idiots once their hearts are involved.”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Obsidian
“You are not the first female to strike me, my mate did it often. She grew testy at time."
Like perhaps when you opened your mouth...”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Obsidian
“Let me go.”
“No.” He pulled her closer. “Never.”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Obsidian
“You will stay with me. You will sleep here at my side and you will touch me. I am depressed but not when you stroke my chest.”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Obsidian
“all I want to know.” “You just”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Obsidian
“He stood up and took a step toward her. "There has been a request for your hand in marriage."
"Is that why you kissed me? So you could take me home and then marry me to a man I don't love? Who is he?" she demanded, emotionally spent now and uncaring that tears were streaming down her face.
He started toward her.
"Don't you dare kiss me again," she ordered. "I can't think when you… Just don't," she stammered. "And as for the offer, I decline."
"You can't decline until you know who he is," he reasoned.
"All right. Tell me his name, and then I'll decline. You're going to praise him first though, aren't you?
That's what you always do to try to get me to agree," she ended, and even she could hear the heartbreak in her voice.
"No, I'm not going to praise him. He's riddled with flaws."
She stopped trying to run away. "He is?"
He slowly nodded. "I have it on good authority that he's stupid and arrogant and obstinate, or at least he was until he realized what a fool he has been."
"But that's what I said about… you."
"I love you, Bridgid. Will you marry me?”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Ransom
“I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one.”
― Robyn Schneider, quote from The Beginning of Everything
“In war, the first casualty is truth.”
― Terry Hayes, quote from I Am Pilgrim
“Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Being Nikki
“There can be no health in us, nor any good thing grow, for the land is one with the Dragon Reborn and he one with the land. Soul of fire, heart of stone, in pride he conquers, forcing the proud to yield. He calls upon the mountains to kneel, and the seas to give way, and the very skies to bow. Pray that the heart of stone remebers tears, and the soul of fire, love.
-From a much-disputed translation of The Prophecies of the Dragon by the poet Kyera Termendal, of Shiota, believed to have been published between FY 700 and FY 800”
― Robert Jordan, quote from A Crown of Swords
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