“I’ve lost everyone I’ve ever cared about, and I’ve never loved somebody like this. I can’t lose it, and I won’t lose you … This has nothing to do with equal rights or trust. This is life, and you’re mine.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Sweet Revenge
“Happiness felt good. Matt Dean felt even better.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Sweet Revenge
“I love completely, Laney, and I’m sure it’s a pain in the ass … You have my heart and always will.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Sweet Revenge
“He’d left his baby brother to die alone. Tears he’d never allow anybody to see spiked his eyes like acid. He’d lived with fear, he’d lived with pain, but failure was just too much. Now, with Jory’s face in front of him, his hands shook and his vision clouded. “I’m sorry,” he whispered, his voice raw and hoarse.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Sweet Revenge
“He looked like a pissed-off fallen angel in the middle of Armageddon.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Sweet Revenge
“I wish I could say differently, but temporary works for me right now.”
“Temporary is all I have.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Sweet Revenge
“I always figured somebody was meant for me, and when I found him, I’d know it. The second I saw you in the alley, something in me recognized you.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Sweet Revenge
“The second you make contact, I’ll have you on that bar, held tight, my cock pressed between your legs, my lips on yours until you beg for more. Even fully clothed, I may make you come—and I won’t care who’s watching.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Sweet Revenge
“If you say so. Just to be clear, I feel anything but brotherly toward you, Laney.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Sweet Revenge
“Not only did he have the body of a god, the fighting skills of an ancient warrior, and the face of an angel, but the guy could fix cars? “Who”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Sweet Revenge
“Can I ask a stupid question?"
"Sure. Ask away."
"It's sort of more than one question. But... Look, um... Why do we hurt? Why do we die? Why isn't life good all the time? Why isn't it fair?"
"Those aren't stupid questions, Hazel. For some people they're the only questions that matter."
"Does that mean you won't answer them?"
"Sure, I'll answer. But it's kind of a big subject, and it's got lots of answers, and the answers don't really mean anything-- They aren't stupid questions but they could just as well be 'When is purple?' or 'Why does Thursday?', if you see what I mean..."
"Not really."
"Well, I think some of it is probably contrasts. Light and Shadow. If you never had the bad times, how would you know you had the good times? But some of it is just: If you're going to be Human, then there are a whole load of things that come with it. Eyes, a Heart, Days and Life.
It's the moments that illuminate it, though. The times you don't see when you're having them... They make the rest of it matter.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Death: The Time of Your Life
“Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.”
― P.D. Ouspensky, quote from The Fourth Way
“Some months earlier one of his oldest friends, Junto charter member Hugh Roberts, had written with news of the club and how the political quarreling in Philadelphia had continued to divide the membership. Franklin expressed hope that the squabbles would not keep Roberts from the meetings. “’tis now perhaps one of the oldest clubs, as I think it was formerly one of the best, in the King’s dominions; it wants but about two years of forty since it was established.” Few men were so lucky as to belong to such a group. “We loved and still love one another; we are grown grey together and yet it is too early to part. Let us sit till the evening of life is spent; the last hours were always the most joyous. When we can stay no longer ’tis time enough then to bid each other good night, separate, and go quietly to bed.” And”
― H.W. Brands, quote from The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
“That’s right: Never underestimate the power of a good laugh. It can stop some of the fiercest middle-school monsters.”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
“إن الأزمة العميقة للهوية البشرية التي سببتها الحياة "في الكذب", والحياة التي أسست عليها لها بالتأكيد بعد أخلاقي: يظهر هذا البعد كأزمة أخلاقية عميقة في المجتمع, إن الإنسان الذي سقط في منظومة القيم الإستهلاكية, وانصهر في مزيج القافلة الحضارية, ولم ينخرط في نظام الوجود بناء على شعوره بمسؤولية أعلى من مسؤوليته عن البقاء كفرد يعد إنسان منزوع الأخلاق. يعتمد النظام على هذا الإنعدام الأخلاقي ويعمقه كمخرج اجتماعي له.”
― Václav Havel, quote from The Power of the Powerless
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