“Eternity is a long time to exist without something to remember.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“A desert lily need not turn jealous eyes toward the common violet.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“The truth is, if I could bottle your water-lily scent and carry it with me as I wandered the desert, even if I was sick from the sun and dying from thirst, only to be saved by a desert sheikh who wished to barter for it, and even should the trading of it save my life, I would not part with it for all the jewels, silks, and precious riches of Egypt and all the lands surrounding it. So to say your scent is pleasant to me is an understatement most villainous.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“Lily, I can honestly tell you that i have never in my long life come across a creature as beguilinig as you. You are as fresh and as lovely as a budding flower by the dew of a golden morning. I breathe you in and am filled with the taste of sunshine, life, and hope. You are much more than beautiful. You are...temptation personified.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“Just because there is no perceivable alternate exit does not mean another exit does not exist. I believe there may indeed be a way to escape.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“Amon murmured against my neck, "You taste like melted desert honey.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“As the days and the years of your life go by, I will keep watch over you, and when your blossom closes its petals, finally surrendering to the night, I will meet you at the dawn of your new existence and I will be your new guide in the afterlife.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“I'd waited so long for his kiss, and it was so much more, so much better than I had dared imagine. Golden sunshine burst behind my closed eyelids as I became a being entwined with the sun.
His hands pulled me against his body and I melted into him, my limbs tingling and warm. Amon's mouth moved over mine, slowly, like he could make the kiss last forever.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“I'd expected his style to be exotic and very different from modern dancing, but I hadn't expected that he would be doing a male version of belly dancing.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“I could fall recklessly, dangerously, in love with a guy like him.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“This water is more delicious than the soft kisses from the daubed lips of a dozen nubile maidens”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“It does not matter if we acknowledge the sun; it contiues to shine reardless of the heed we give it. If my efforts go without recognitioun, then so be it.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“I mean, realistically, what was I expecting here? A sarcophagus built for two?”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“How did yo do that?"
Ahmose titled his head. "Im am a pathfinder," he said simply.
"But that's not a path. It's a door."
"Yes. I found the path of weakness in the door.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“The human sun god was a stomach-dropping, chest-popping, feet-sliding, shoulder-swaying, hip-rotating, flutter-inducing, liquid locomotive, and I was surrounded by women who couldn't wait to buy a ticket.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“Thousands of beautiful women? Yes. Thousands of insects whose only purpose is to lure fish? No.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“Come back, Young Lily,” he groaned. “I need you.”
Oh, I don´t think so.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“Amon’s dancing was like a mashup of Elvis and the Chippendales.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“Before I could even form a question, he murmured some words in Egyptian and we were sucked into a whirlwind.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
“I didn’t go for dangerous guys, especially bald guys wearing skirts who I couldn’t figure out. He”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Reawakened
Colleen Houck
Born place: in Tucson, AZ, The United States
Born date October 3, 1969
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“What do I love when I love my God?”
― Augustine of Hippo, quote from Confessions
“Y de este modo, a medida que una intimidad cada vez más estrecha me introducía con menor reserva en las profundidades de su espíritu, con mayor amargura yo advertía la inutilidad de toda tentativa para alegrar a un espíritu del cual las tinieblas, como si fueran una cualidad inherente y positiva en él, se derramaban sobre todos los objetos del universo físico y moral, en una irradiación incesante de melancolía”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
“To hold a human soul in the palm of your hand like a pebble. To feel somebody slip away, yet by your actions to bring her back! Not even a king had such power.”
― Noah Gordon, quote from The Physician
“I tend to think that everything counts. In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.”
― Paul Auster, quote from The New York Trilogy
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from Women
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