“And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, damn it all. He disliked her, he resented her, he disapproved of almost everything about her, yet he was head over ears in love with her, like a foolish schoolboy.
He wondered grimly what he was going to do about it.
He was not amused.
Or in any way pleased.”
― Mary Balogh, quote from Slightly Dangerous
“I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.'
'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.”
― Mary Balogh, quote from Slightly Dangerous
“And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language”
― Mary Balogh, quote from Slightly Dangerous
“I do not admire greatness that has no substance.”
― Mary Balogh, quote from Slightly Dangerous
“played any sort of game. Ten.”
― Mary Balogh, quote from Slightly Dangerous
“But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.”
― Mary Balogh, quote from Slightly Dangerous
Mary Balogh
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“She points to some girls who are standing in a circle talking and giggling LOUD. They are bent. What do you think they’re feeling? Like throwing up? She Looks At The Person. Well they’re bending over so much it looks like they’re going to throw up. Do you usually laugh a lot just before you throw up? No. I don’t. But who knows about them?”
― Kathryn Erskine, quote from Mockingbird
“He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.”
― Anthony Kiedis, quote from Scar Tissue
“In the spirit of Ethan's neurosis, we made a drywall list of keyboard buttons we would like to see: PLEASE, THANK YOU, FUCK OFF, DIE, OOPS...MY MISTAKE, DO SOMETHING COOL AND SURPRISE ME .”
― Douglas Coupland, quote from Microserfs
“Mortality, a writer of my generation once said, trumps morality.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
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