“Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“I need you like - like light. You're light, all right - like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn't mess with forbidden things - I should have taken my own advice.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“I'm going to kiss you... until you faint”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“I'm in love with you. I think everything you do is marvelous.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“I never cheat. I practice Gamesmanship - the art of winning games without actually cheating.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“If you lose, there's the devil to pay.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“I am just two and two. I am hot. I am cold. I'm the parent of numbers that cannot be told. I'm a gift beyond measure, a matter of course, and I'm yielded with pleasure- when taken by force.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“Like a revolving door to hell.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“Wasnt it Startre who said hell was eternity spent in a room with your friends?”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“He was evil. Cruel, capricious, and dangerous as a cobra. A prince of darkness.
Completely evil, and completely in love with her.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“en garde, Julian. It's not over till it's over.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“Julian: What's black inside, white outside, and hot?
Jenny: What?
Julian: A wolf in sheep's clothing.
Jenny: Is that what you are?
Julian: Me? No, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“He looked at her then, and she could see he wasn't afraid.
"Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten," he said.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“Don't worry about it, Mikey," Dee said comfortingly. "You'll probably be next, so you won't be here when our Great Deception comes crashing down.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“If, someday, Julian should be reborn, she wished him well.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“He had been so many things. Seductive as silver and deadly as a cobra. And vulnerable like a hurt child underneath it all.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“Jenny looked up quickly. "Do you believe in good and evil?"
"Oh, yes. Very strongly. And I believe that evil sometimes has to be fought—personally. Hand to hand. If you care enough to do it.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“Audrey: I was wet.
Michael: Sweat.
Audrey: I don't sweat.
Michael: Well, ladylike perspiration, then.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“It cast an unholy glow all around him - which was entirely appropriate, because Julian was as seductive as mortal sin and as haughty as the devil.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“He lied, Jenny thought, racing up the steps. He changed the rules and he lied. Sometimes you can't return good for evil; sometimes evil simply has to be stopped.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“Julian: She's very strong, you know. Much too good for you.
Tom: I know. But she's a thousand times too good for you.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“Oh, all right, you big baby," she said. "If you really want it. I should have gotten you a rattle and a pacifier, too.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“Just the sight of him brought back everything that was good and homelike to her mind. It was like coming back to her own room after being away a long time with strangers.
It was where she belonged.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“For a moment, without thinking of anything else, Jenny was simply proud of him. Fiercely, passionately proud that a human, a seventeen-year-old who hadn't even heard of the Shadow Men until a month ago, could stand up to them like this. Could conceal his terror and smile that way and offer to die.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
“They had been a couple for so long that everyone thought of them as Tom-and-Jenny, a single unit.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Forbidden Game
L.J. Smith
Born place: in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The United States
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“What?" she asked.
"You're beautiful."
She rolled her eyes. "Flattery will get you laid."
"I sure hope so.”
― J. Lynn, quote from Unchained
“You're so damn worried about what everyone else wants. Well, you know what, Nick? You're going to disappoint people sometimes. You just are. And you know what else? They're either going to get over it or they're not. If they don't, it sucks. But it's not going to kill them, and it's sure not going to kill you.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Secret
“We are just stardust after all.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from May Bird Among the Stars
“მე კაცმა ისე მიმუხთლა,
მერჩვნა, ბარემ ვეკალი,
ისე გამწირა, ზედ გულზე
ისე დამასო ეკალი,
ის ეკლის წვერი გულიდან
ახლაც ისევე მომიჩანს,
მოყვასისაგან დაჭრილი
გული ვერაფრით მომირჩა.”
― Nizami Ganjavi, quote from Layla and Majnun
“Since I spent much of my childhood being left behind and ignored, one might think that, as an adult, moments of perceived abandonment would feel old hat. The truth is, as an adult, I am always waiting to be left behind. I’m always ready to be discarded and, therefore, I spend a significant amount of time preparing for this eventuality.
I lower my expectations, I don’t seek out meaningful relationships, and I don’t engage in any sort of real intimacy, physical or otherwise.
Engage is the key word here. Except, when I engage, when it happens, when I’m left behind it doesn’t feel old hat. It feels like it did the first time and it takes me by surprise. So, I don’t let it happen.”
― Penny Reid, quote from Neanderthal Seeks Human
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