“Here's a nice image for a life in balance,” she said. “You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass.”
“I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“if you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“If you’re going around in circles, maybe you’re cutting corners.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“waiting in hospitals is as close as we get to being in hell before our time,”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“up beside the car. Then he pulled out a Sig Sauer”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“I told the truth and shamed the devil.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“He wanted an heir, a tiny piece of immortality.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“I climbed out of my old Porsche in the staff”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
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“Go to the theater, to museums, and to concerts as often as possible; it gives you a healthy glow.”
― quote from How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
“This love, it is a funny thing. It can elevate you to the highest peak and plunge you to a bottomless pit. I”
― Preeti Shenoy, quote from The One You Cannot Have
“He placed a finger over her lips. She held her breath when he clasped one of her hands, slid it down his chest and over his taut stomach before curving her fingers over the bulge in his trews. They both moaned when she rubbed her palm gently over his hard shaft and stroked his bollocks with her fingers. He was hot in her hands, a tempting combination of hard and soft. “I know what I see,” he breathed into her ear and thrust against her palm. “Know what I hold. This is what you do to me.” She would have fallen had he not held her up with an arm wrapped around her back. She sought his mouth, touched her lips to his. He opened to her seeking tongue, allowing her to delve inside and stroke his mouth. His tongue twined with hers, giving back as much as he took. He tasted better than summer wine, better than the first harvest fruits of spring. The kiss deepened, a mating of tongues that mimicked the slow thrust of his hips. His hands wandered over her body, sliding down her back, cupping her buttocks. They left trails of fire in their wake, and Martise moaned in his mouth.”
― Grace Draven, quote from Master of Crows
“We find that a high plane of sustained horror is often convenient for reasons of state." — Inspector Kraus (Gestapo)”
― Jan Valtin, quote from Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin
“Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead...”
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