“I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Tell me what you need."
"You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“He’d never get over her. He knew that without hesitation or doubt. He loved her. As deeply as it was possible to love another person. And God, he wanted her. Every day. In hit life. As much a part of him as he would be of her.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“I want babies too," he said huskily. "Daughters as beautiful as you are.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Decide what makes you happy and damn what anyone else thinks or says”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Was he demanding? Hell yes, but he wasn’t selfish. He took. He was ruthless in his demands. But he gave her back so much. Not just materially but emotionally, though he’d likely deny he did any such thing.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“If you ever wake up and see the light and decide you want me back? You're going to have to crawl.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“The only thing I’m sure of is that I’ve waited entirely too damn long to have you.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“She touched a part of him he’d thought was inaccessible. A part that had been jealously guarded for years. And she’d gotten there with no effort whatsoever. She’d walked into his life and heart like she belonged.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Her mind exploded with whoa and what the fuck and oh, yes please.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“She was tattooed on every part of his body. Deeper, in his heart, his very soul. A permanent brand that would never wear off.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Pero el corazón no siempre hacía caso y esta era una de las cosas sobre las que podría no tener control alguno.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“She wanted to rock his entire universe. Wanted to firmly implant in his mind that he’d never want to allow another man to touch her—anyone to touch her.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Her words spoke to the very heart of him. Said with utter sincerity. How simple she made it sound. She’d never asked anything of him. She was very undemanding. She didn’t give a shit about his money or what he could buy her. The only things she’d ever truly asked him for were so simple. Hold her. Touch her. Comfort her.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“It was so easy to lose herself in the fantasy of being with Gabe because he made it easy. He took absolute care of her. He saw to her every need. Was he demanding? Hell yes, but he wasn’t selfish. He took. He was ruthless in his demands. But he gave her back so much. Not just materially but emotionally, though he’d likely deny he did any such thing.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“En los negocios, el mayor poder que puedes tener es el de estar dispuesto a renunciar a un acuerdo.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“I'll never be happy without her. I want her in my life. Every day. I want to take care of her, make sure she never has to worry for anything that I can give her. F me, but I'm even imagining children. At my age. All I can think of are daughters who look just like her. I picture her round with my child and it's the most mind-blowing feeling in the world. Eveything that I've sworn off in my life, she has me reevaluating. Because of her. It's all her. I've never felt this way about another woman. I never will.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
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“Consideration of the method used in diverse orders of knowledge allows for the concordance of two points of view which seem irreconcilable. The sciences of observation describe and measure with ever greater precision the multiple manifestations of life … while theology extracts … the final meaning according to the Creator’s designs.”
― Michael Shermer, quote from Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
“I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files
“By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.”
― Herbert Marcuse, quote from One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“That’s why I preach today, Do not do spite,” he said. “Spite does not pay. It goes around and misses the object that you aim and comes back and zaps you. And you’re the one who pays for it.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, quote from The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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