“Talen smiled. “When did you get so smart?"
“I’ve always been smart.” She forced a smile, biting back a wince as her damaged lip protested.
“Good. Smart girls get to do the dishes.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Provoked
“I love you … no matter what happens later, I need you to know that. I do love you.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Provoked
“I’ve lived for more than three centuries, and you’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” Her”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Provoked
“Amber forced a smile. "I can't believe there are real vampires."
Janie shrugged. "Sure, you can. You just don't want to believe it's so easy to believe there are vampires.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Provoked
“I am not taking dating advice from a woman who has lied to me for twenty-five years.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Provoked
“Stop that. You're immortal. You can't have a heart attack.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Provoked
“I love you with everything I am and everything I'll ever be.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Provoked
“Of course. You're perfect. Stubborn, impossible, horribly devoted to a way of life I don't understand. I'll love you until the day I die.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Provoked
“… What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right now. Do not pursue what is illusionary -property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life -don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn for happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. It is enough if you don't freeze in the cold and if thirst and hunger don't claw at your insides. If your back isn't broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, if both ears hear, then whom should you envy? And why? Our envy of others devours us most of all. Rub your eyes and purify your heart -and prize above all else in the world those who love you and who wish you well. Do not hurt them or scold them, and never part from any of them in anger; after all, you simply do not know: it may be your last act before your arrest, and that will be how you are imprinted on their memory.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quote from The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
“He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice. Being in his arms feels like the home I never had.”
― Susan Ee, quote from World After
“Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak”
― John Flanagan, quote from The Battle for Skandia
“There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.”
― Cheryl Strayed, quote from Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from The Complete Short Stories
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