“In order to shape a better tomorrow, we need to think and feel better today.”
― Angel Sefer, quote from Spellbound in His Arms
“Our life is a mirror reflecting our thoughts and feelings.”
― Angel Sefer, quote from Spellbound in His Arms
“Positive thinking attracts positive thinking people and favorable circumstances to accomplish our goals.”
― Angel Sefer, quote from Spellbound in His Arms
“Trust and respect are not given away… they are earned.”
― Angel Sefer, quote from Spellbound in His Arms
“He couldn’t overlook the fact that she was an intruder, no matter how vulnerable and adorable she looked...”
― Angel Sefer, quote from Spellbound in His Arms
“Thinking of her intriguing eyes staring into his, he was left speechless by the feeling of pure desire which shot right through his body like a hot wave...”
― Angel Sefer, quote from Spellbound in His Arms
“Buried feelings of anger and vengeance washed over him as he thought back to the time he discovered who his real father was and what he had done to his mother...”
― Angel Sefer, quote from Spellbound in His Arms
“Manos was an artist at manipulating people’s lives and turning everything to his advantage. He had no conscience and no remorse...”
― Angel Sefer, quote from Spellbound in His Arms
“Push not the river; it will flow on its own accord. —Polish Proverb”
― James Conroyd Martin, quote from Push Not the River
“Imagine something. Something that fits in the dark. Say the dark is the sky at night. Imagine something in it.”
“A star?”
“Yes.”
“I can’t. I can’t see it.”
“Okay. Don’t try to see it. Try to be it. Would you like to know what it’s like to be one? Be a star?”
“A movie star?”
“No, a star star. In the sky. Keep your eyes closed, think about what it feels like to be one.” He moved over to her and kissed her shoulder. “Imagine yourself in that dark, all alone in the sky at night. Nobody is around you. You are by yourself, just shining there. You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself, it’s not a twinkle, it’s more like a throb. Star throbs. Over and over and over. Like this. Stars just throb and throb and throb and sometimes, when they can’t throb anymore, when they can’t hold it anymore, they fall out of the sky.”
― Toni Morrison, quote from Tar Baby
“A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of it ever underwent sex unless she was hot. Pretending to be hot bears a distinct resemblance to self-rape, but it’s a rape accompanied by boredom instead of fear.”
― Norman Rush, quote from Mating
“The same things are done by us, over and over, with terrible predictability. One may be forgiven, in view of this, for wishing at least to associate with beauty.”
― Saul Bellow, quote from Humboldt's Gift
“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”
― Jasper Fforde, quote from First Among Sequels
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