“What you lost weakened you, could kill you. What you wanted kept you going. What you wanted gave you strength.”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
“Sooner or later everyone disguises themselves and where they have been and what they have done.”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people explan their lives.”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
“Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
“Where do they come from, thoughts?
Like wrens, out of the sky.
They arrive.
Noisy, hungry, perfectly themselves.”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
“You throw yourself on the world like turf on a fire.”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
Peter Behrens
Born place: in Montreal, Canada
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“She took a deep breath and forgot to exhale. She wondered what it would be like if she licked him up one side and down the other.
"What are you thinking?"
She suddenly felt kind of hot and dizzy and accidentally let Layla out.
"That I want to lick your tattoo," she whispered.”
― Rachel Gibson, quote from True Love and Other Disasters
“All this freedom, but I still feel like I’m locked up.”
― Piper Kerman, quote from Orange Is the New Black
“I sniffed and dabbed at my eyes fiercely. I told myself I was only tearful because I was tired.”
― Jacqueline Wilson, quote from Little Stars
“At night, returning from work, Anil would slip out of her sandals and stand in the shallow water, her toes among the white petals, her arms folded as she undressed the day, removing layers of events and incidents so they would no longer be within her. She would stand there for a while, then walk wet-footed to bed.”
― Michael Ondaatje, quote from Anil's Ghost
“Roarke: "Pull yourself together, Eve."
He was already in a business suit, his hair shining and sleek...
Eve: "How come you already are?"
Roarke: "Because staying in bed half the morning unless sex is involved is a waste of time. Since you didn't appear to be cooperative in that area, I started my day with coffee instead”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Conspiracy in Death
Ghost Road Blues
Malice
Boys "R" Us
Edge of Eternity
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