“Baby, I held back today to let you get over all you've been through. But don't let that mislead you. You wouldn't be here if I planned on protecting you from me.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“The past is a part of you and us. You can store it away someplace different, but you can't make it go away. And you can't even resolve it until you, we, face it.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“We attack the problems. They don't attack us.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“My head drops back and I have a fleeting out-of-body moment where I see myself in the window, my hands tied above my head with my legs wrapped around the neck of Chris Merit, while he does delicious things to my body.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“Focus on what you can control... Kow what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“They don’t get to tell you who I am.” His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. “I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it.” A muscle in his jaw flexes. “Understand?”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“I look deep into his eyes and find myself wrapped in the familiar connection we share. It streams through me like moonlight on a bay, glistening through my soul.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“I'll go find us a private car and driver," Chris informs me. "You stay with the bags."
I purse my lips. "Yes, Master."
He arches a brow. "Why is it that I can only get you to say that sarcastically?"
"Because according to you, " I remind him, "you don't want me to call you Master."
"Are you saying you would if I wanted you to?"
"Absolutely not.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“I’m angry at Chris. I’m hurt. “Well, you know what I fear? This is my fear. This moment when, once again, you shut me out
and I’m alone. If you were going to leave me alone, you should have walked away before now, when I still knew how to breathe without you.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together.” My gut clenches at the reference to the way my”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“Know what you can bend to your will, and don’t waste energy on what you can’t. It’ll suck you dry, like it is right now.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“I think it’s the whole ‘bad boy who’s so good but destined to break your heart’ fantasy. Which doesn’t sound like much of a fantasy when you put the broken heart part in the picture, but it is. It so is.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
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“Por la escalera, hacia la luz del sol, fueron saliendo el cocinero (que, obviamente, había seguido la vieja costumbre de enfrentarse a un desastre en la mar emborrachándose tan rápida y concienzudamente como le fue posible) […]”
― Tim Powers, quote from On Stranger Tides
“The sun came out. It filtered down through the leaves, creating a playful pattern of light and shade that danced before my eyes. The air smelled of lilies of the valley. As I walked beneath the canopy of trees, wrapped in the delicate fragrance, caution fell away. It didn't matter that I had no idea which street led to the place de Tertre or to my Métro stop. Destination no longer ruled. My only map was that of free association: I would follow each street only as long as it interested me and then, on a whim, choose a new direction.”
― Alice Steinbach, quote from Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
“But he was sometimes willing to sacrifice financial profit to scholastic prestige. Occasionally, by special arrangement, he would take at greatly reduced fees some boy who seemed likely to win scholarships and thus bring credit on the school. It was on these terms that I was at Crossgates myself: otherwise my parents could not have afforded to send me to so expensive a school.”
― George Orwell, quote from A Collection of Essays
“We are all creatures of the stars.”
― Doris Lessing, quote from Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
“Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
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