“Gabriel.
This has to be his fault, somehow. I'm going to track him down, pluck out his angel feathers, and stuff a pillow with them.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“Sii la mia schiava d’amore,” I purr.
Her expression is guarded. “What did you say?”
An amused smile pulls at my lips. “I’ll never tell.” Somehow, I don’t think she’d agree to be my love slave anyway.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I walk up right behind Frannie, where she’s sitting near the door, in time to hear her say, “You know what, Tay? Go to Hell,” and I smile, because I think it’s cute that she’s inviting her friends along.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“But his eyes say what he can’t. I see it, clear as day, even if she doesn’t. He’d give up his wings for her. All she’d have to do is ask.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I'm literally too hot to handle.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“We could work on our English outline," I say and almost can't contain the chuckle.
"Really? That's your idea of a hot date?"
"I'm sorry, I wasn't aware we were on a 'hot date'" And this time I can't contain the chuckle when she cringes. "So, how hot would you like it? I'm capable of all levels of hotness, from Luc-warm to - and I'm being literal here - hotter than Hell.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“If there's a Hell on Earth, it's high school.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I'm a demon, not a pig, so I keep the place relatively neat.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I don't believe in love at all, really. But lust ... is alive and well.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“She’s fiery for sure. I like a little fire. Makes me feel at home.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“Oh, for the sin of Satan.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“There’s no crying in baseball and no love in Hell. It’s just the rules. You could say it’s against our religion, more or less.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“You speak Italian," she says, unconvinced.
"Si."
"Say something."
"Sii la mia schiava d'amore," I purr.
Her expression is guarded. "What did you say?"
An amuse smile pulls at my lips. "I'll never tell." Somehow I don't think she'd agree to be my love slave anyway.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“And I start to say that I’m not lying now, but I am, so that would be a lie.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I try to pretend his shoulder touching mine isn’t causing totally unrelated parts of me to tingle.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“But I can't see how anybody who drives a '68 Shelby could be all bad.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“What is it?”
“Well, how it works is you take the box out of my hand and open it,” I say with a grin.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“Tell me what to do to change your mind.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“Whoa! I knew you were hot, but Jesus!’ she says, and I wonder why she things He has anything to do with it.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“She gets to the bottom of the stairs, and I lift her off the ground and kiss her. As I lower her back to her feet she says, ‘Mmm, nice. That’s gonna score you some points with the parents.’ I look into the stands and see her parents standing there, slack-jawed, Dad with a camera perched, forgotten, in his hand. And Grandpa is laughing. ‘So what’s the plan?’ ‘I’m working on it. But I’m pretty sure it doesn’t include molesting me in front of them.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“There’s no crying in baseball and no love in Hell. It’s just the rules.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I elbow him. “You’re such a pig.”
He grins. “I’m not a pig, I’m a guy—which, now that I think about it, is pretty much the same thing. Point taken.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“I know exactly what to do with him. I've been practicing in my dreams.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies?”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“In Afghanistan a woman’s longing for love is taboo. It is forbidden by the tribes’ notion of honor and by the mullahs. Young people have no right to meet, to love, or to choose. Love has little to do with romance; on the contrary, love can be interpreted as committing a serious crime, punishable by death.”
― Åsne Seierstad, quote from The Bookseller of Kabul
“Nobody knew what it was like to be torn between what it meant to be human and what it meant to be Pack better than me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Raised by Wolves
“يواصل الله خلق المرأة والقذف بها الى الشوارع , تلك بمؤخرة ضخمة جداً واخرى بنهدين صغيرين جداً , والمهووسة والمجنونة , والمتدينة , ومن تقرأ الفنجان , ومن لا تتحكم في ضراطها , ومن لها انف كبير , ومن لها سيقان نحيلة …
لكن بين الحين والاخر , تطل امرأة بكامل نورها , امرأة تتفتح من ثيابها ..مخلوق جذّاب , هي اللعنة ! ونهاية العالم .
نظرتُ الى اعلى ورأيتها , في الطرف المقابل للحانة . كانت مخمورة ورفض النادل ان يقدم لها مشروباً اخر, بدأت تشتُم وقاموا باستدعاء أحد رجال الشرطة , فأمسك بها الشرطي من ذراعها , وقادها الى الخارج , فيما كانوا هم يلغطون .
أنهيت شرابي وخرجتُ وراءهم .
((ايها الشرطيّ ! ايها الشرطيّ ! ))
توقّف ونظر اليّ .
((هل فعلت زوجتي سوءًا؟)) سالته .
((نعتقد انها مخمورة , يا سيدي . كنت سأرافقها الى البوابة)) .
((بوابة الانطلاق؟))
ضحك . ((لا يا سيدي . بوابة الخروج)).
((سأعتني بالامر , يا حضرة الشرطي)) .
((حسناً يا سيدي , ولكن اهتم بأن لا تشرب بعد الان )) .
لم ارّد . أمسكتها من ذراعها وعدت بها الى الداخل .
قالت : (( الحمد لله ,لقد انقذت حياتي )) .
اصطدم صدرها بي .
((لا بأس اسمي هانك))
قالت : ((انا ماري لو)) .
قلت : ((ماري لو , أنا احبك)) . ص 177”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from Post Office
“—Si piensas que actuar como si no existieras no es lo más difícil que he hecho nunca, te equivocas. Odio no hablar contigo, odio no discutir como si fuéramos un matrimonio de ancianos y odio no pasar todos los días a tu lado. Pero así es como tiene que ser. Brandon me odia, y Princesa, confía en mí cuando digo que tiene todas las razones para hacerlo. Así que si después de todo lo que te he hecho, sigues incluso considerando ser mi amiga, entonces tiene que ser sólo los domingos.”
― Molly McAdams, quote from Taking Chances
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