“...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
Gena Showalter
Born place: in Florida, The United States
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“Now I have very little respect for the electoral system in the United States. I could have respected it in the early days, when the country was small and we had small population. The system that we have in the United States was set up at a time when the total population was the population of Tennessee. We've stretched it to try to make it work for different kind of problems and in stretching and adapting it, we've lost its meaning. We still have the form but not the meaning. There's a lot of things that we have to look at critically that might have been useful at one time that are no longer useful I think there's some good in everything. There's some bad in everything. But there's so little good in some things that you know for practical purposes they're useless. They're beyond salvation. There's so much good in some things, even though there's bad, that we build on that.”
― Myles Horton, quote from We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
“So spake Israel's true king, and to the Fiend
Made answer meet, that made void all his wiles.
So fares it, when with truth falsehood contends.”
― John Milton, quote from Paradise Regained
“The girl had a special way of saying “anything”. The gods had blessed her voice with a special monopoly. It delivered an acoustic chocolate that was laced with all flavours of euphoria. The substance led to surges in testosterone in all types of men, including the average botanist. “Anything.” The way she handled the word endowed it with so many possibilities. Professor Khupe decided to investigate how many of these Ketiwe would let him explore. To his delight the parameters of the word had proven to be quite elastic.”
― Taona Dumisani Chiveneko, quote from The Hangman's Replacement: Sprout of Disruption
“I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!"
"Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?”
― Alex Scarrow, quote from The Eternal War
“What use will money be to him in the Sands.”
― Wilfred Thesiger, quote from Arabian Sands
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