Jillian Dodd · 826 pages
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“You can’t fully love anyone until you learn to love yourself.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“The way you love the man you marry is going to be different than the love you felt for an old boyfriend.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“I did it because I think it’s time you finally knew that the stars were always for you. Always. Only. Ever. For you.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“Electrical shivers shoot up my leg. And my knee is such a slut! She likes it! She’s that friend you have. The one who you tell you’re on a diet and the next day she shows up with cupcakes and says, Aww, just one won’t hurt. But when I look down at my knee, I realize that she’s not only a slut, she’s an enabler. She’s all, Look at your knee. How small it looks under his big hand. How safe it feels. God, I hate my knee.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“I grind so fine, I’m practically coffee,” he says with a straight face, then busts out a grin.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“Love is the poetry of the senses.” Some”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“Hey, Audrey, shut the fuck up. We’re trying to watch the game.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“After a kiss like that, he should know I’m the one. He should be down on his knees begging me to marry him and have his little Hottie babies.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“Sander is a great boyfriend. He’s super attentive, dresses well, loves to shop, and never even looks at other girls.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“So, congratulations, you’re finally getting what you dreamed of." I take the key from around my neck, drop it into his hand, and say, “I understand perfectly.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“flirt. Why the hell not? I’m single. You’re single. Let’s mingle. Just because I’m not going to fall in love doesn’t mean I can’t have some fun.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“You can have all the brains in the world, but it takes a body to get most men’s attention.”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from The Keatyn Chronicles: Books 1-3
“I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“- Amerikanac zapravo ne voli ništa drugo osim svog automobila: ni ženu ni dijete ni domovinu čak mu ni bankovni račun nije na prvom mjestu (u stvari on uopće ne voli taj bankovni račun ni izdaleka toliko koliko to misle stranci jer on će potrošiti gotovo sav svoj novac ili baš sav za tako reći bilo što samo ako je dovoljno bezvrijedno) nego njegovo motorno vozilo. Jer automobil je postao naš nacionalni simbol seksa. Mi ne možemo pravo uživati ni u čemu ako se ne moramo bar jednu uličicu voziti do toga. A s druge strane cijela naša sredina i odgoj i obrazovanje zabranjuju nam sve što je kradomično i potajno. Zato se mi danas moramo rastaviti od supruge da bismo od ljubavnice otklonili i tako dalje. A kao rezultat toga američka je žena postala hladna i aseksualna; ona je projicirala svoj libido na automobil ne samo zato što njegov sjaj, njegove tehničke napravice i njegova pokreljivost udovoljavaju njezinoj taštini i nesposobnosti (zbog odjeće koju joj je nametnuo zemaljski savez trgovaca na malo) da hoda nego zato što je on neće izgnječiti ni raskuštrati niti je svu oznojiti i uznerediti. Zato da bi je uopće još nekako mogao osvojiti i potčiniti američki je muškarac morao usvojiti automobil. Makar zbog toga živio u iznajmljenoj štakorskoj rupi on ga mora on će ga ne samo imati nego i svake godine obnavljati da ponovno zadobije prvobitno djevičansto i nikom ga neće posuđivati, nijednoj tuđoj ruci neće dopustiti da ikad upozna posljednju vječito neoskvrnjenu i vječito požudnu intimnost njegovih pedala i poluga pa iako nema kamo ići s njim ili ako ima onda ne ide onamo gdje bi ga mogla nagrditi bilo kakva ogrebotina ili mrlja ipak svako nedjejno prijepodne provodi u njegovu pranju, mazanju i poliranju jer radeći to on miluje tijelo žene koja mu je već odavno uskratila pristup u svoj krevet.”
― William Faulkner, quote from Intruder in the Dust
“I've confessed to everything and I'd like to be hanged. Now, if you please.
I don't mean to be difficult, but I can't bear to tell my story. I can't relive those memories—the touch of the Dead Hand, the smell of eel, the gulp and swallow of the swamp. How can you possibly think me innocent? Don't let my face fool you; it tells the worst lies. A girl can have the face of an angel but have a horrid sort of heart.
I know you believe you're giving me a chance—or, rather, it's the Chime Child giving me the chance. She's desperate, of course, not to hang an innocent girl again, but please believe me: Nothing in my story will absolve me of guilt. It will only prove what I've already told you, which is that I'm wicked. Can't the Chime Child take my word for it?
In any event, where does she expect me to begin? The story of a wicked girl has no true beginning. I'd have to begin with the day I was born.
If Eldric were to tell the story, he'd likely begin with himself, on the day he arrived in the Swampsea. That's where proper stories begin, don't they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?
But this isn't a proper story, and I'm telling you, I ought to be hanged.”
― Franny Billingsley, quote from Chime
“I am in the prime of my womanhood, nunga-nungas poised and trembling (attractively). Lips puckered up and in peak condition for a snogging fest.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
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