“Kate, I need to use the toilet,” he called through the door.
“You’ve just had hours in the sea. Couldn’t you have gone then?”
“Mum told me to get out of the water first.”
“What, even the ocean?”
“It’s wrong to pollute.” He tried to sound serious. ”
― Barbara Elsborg, quote from Strangers
“Better not to have anything. Not even love. If you got attached to something, it only got taken away. Child or adult. Toys or people. No difference”
― Barbara Elsborg, quote from Strangers
“...do me the very great honor of becoming...the person who'll cook me lovely things to eat, who'll cheer me up when I'm miserable, who'll tell me no and mean it...”
― Barbara Elsborg, quote from Strangers
“I want you so much I’m scared,” he whispered.
“I’m scared I want you so much,” Kate whispered back.”
― Barbara Elsborg, quote from Strangers
“I love you because I can be honest with you. I trust you. I love you because you've made me see I'm more than I thought.”
― Barbara Elsborg, quote from Strangers
“I don’t feel part of the world. No one needs me or wants me or even likes me very much. I don’t like myself. The world will keep turning without me. I’ll be no great loss. I’m just a temporary misuse of a minute amount of carbon.”
― Barbara Elsborg, quote from Strangers
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“Every American who served in Iraq helped to make our nation safer, gave twenty-five million people the chance to live in freedom, and changed the direction of the Middle East for generations to come. There are things we got wrong in Iraq, but that cause is eternally right.”
― George W. Bush, quote from Decision Points
“The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Ghost Story
“Stay sunny, we said to each other. Because if you don’t, the whole world will know you’re a monster.”
― Katie Alender, quote from From Bad to Cursed
“On the existence and threat of modern-day secret societies: We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence . . . building a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. —JOHN F. KENNEDY, FROM A SPEECH GIVEN AT THE WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL ON APRIL 27, 1961”
― James Rollins, quote from Bloodline
“If guys don't open doors for you, then they aren't worth your time.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Misbehaving
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