“...the devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left...”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Playing with Fire
“The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Playing with Fire
“You’re just begging for a piece of me, you know that?” she growled. “I don’t know what gave you the idea I've lowered my standards, but I assure you, I haven’t. I want no part of you.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Playing with Fire
“You try almost dying, being chased, then
hopping in a car with a complete (horny)
stranger.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Playing with Fire
“What do you think is the problem? You’re a cute kid-‐uh, guy. Man. You’re a cute
man.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Playing with Fire
“He nodded again. “We didn’t know Lexis was pregnant when we both volunteered for some…experiments to enhance our DNA. Unfortunately, those experiments affected Sunny more than me and Lexis.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Playing with Fire
“And then I opened the door to my room and saw you standing there in the parking lot, in the rain, and I just thought, 'This. This is what the perfect time feels like. It's not about the milestones; its about the person.”
― Dahlia Adler, quote from Just Visiting
“Maybe I don't feel like taking orders.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hard Limit
“And so, though Smith was not at all the man Knight would have deliberately chosen as a friend—or even for one of a group of a dozen friends—he somehow was his friend. Circumstance, as usual, did it all. How many of us can say of our most intimate alter ego, leaving alone friends of the outer circle, that he is the man we should have chosen, as embodying the net result after adding up all the points in human nature that we love, and principles we hold, and subtracting all that we hate? The man is really somebody we got to know by mere physical juxtaposition long maintained, and was taken into our confidence, and even heart, as a makeshift.”
― Thomas Hardy, quote from A Pair of Blue Eyes
“Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent world.”
― Heinrich Harrer, quote from Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books)
“—Nos estamos metiendo en honduras —exclamó don Rigoberto—. No soy un ateo, un ateo es también un creyente. Cree que Dios no existe, ¿no es cierto? Soy un agnóstico, más bien, si es que soy algo. Alguien que se declara perplejo, incapaz de creer que Dios exista o que Dios no exista. —Ni chicha ni limonada —se rió Fonchito—. Es una manera muy cómoda de sacarle el bulto al problema, papá.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, quote from The Time of the Hero
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