“In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.”
― Patricia Nell Warren, quote from The Front Runner
“Love is when you fry the other person's bacon even if you're a vegetarian.”
― Patricia Nell Warren, quote from The Front Runner
“The angel of death had cruised him. Death, that hustler, that last lover.”
― Patricia Nell Warren, quote from The Front Runner
“Let us live without hate among those who hate”
― Patricia Nell Warren, quote from The Front Runner
“Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.”
― Caitlin Moran, quote from How to Build a Girl
“How do you know which one's the queen?'
'She's bigger than the others,' said Mel.
'That doesn't always help,' Petey said, 'I can't always find her.'
'Because she's not that much bigger," said Mel. 'You don't rely on her size as much as you try to use the way she moves. It's hard to describe. It's as if she walks in a more determined way' She pulled off her hat and smoothed her long, straight hair. 'She's got a big job. Babies to bear. Workers to inspire. A colony to manage. She moves like that. Like she's a woman with a plan. The best way to see her is to let your eyes lose their focus, let things get a bit fuzzy on you. See the bees as a whole rather than individuals. When you do that, you understand the entire pattern. The queen's movements will stick out because they're so different from everyone else's.”
― Laura Ruby, quote from Bone Gap
“I have another friend who gets what I’m really like, and I get her. She scares me. Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?”
― Megan Abbott, quote from The Fever
“Actually,” Jayden said, “Not completely unlike the Cloak of Invisibility, although different in that those individuals using these devices wouldn’t become completely invisible. Exactly.” “So nothing like it,” Matthias said. “Moron status secured.”
― A.E. Kirk, quote from Demons in Disguise
“Alle mennesker heter egentlig noe annet.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, quote from Little Star
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