“I’ve only ever loved one girl, Tru – and that’s you. It’s always been you. I loved you from the moment I knew how to love.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“God, he’s such a cocky, arrogant bastard at times.
And I totally fancy him.
No I don’t.
Yes, I do.
No. I. Don’t.
Ah fuck.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“I’ll never be good enough for you, I know that. But I’m no good without you, and if that makes me a selfish bastard for wanting you as badly as I do then so be it because I can’t live a life that doesn’t have you in it.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“You’re not just any girl. You’re my girl.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“I loved you from the moment I knew how to love.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“i wear my scars, they don't wear me.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“And that’s why I prefer to dance in the bedroom.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“Trudy Bennett, I love you beyond any lyrics I could ever write, or any words I could ever say. I always have, and I always will. Marry me?”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“I'm independent and strong, but sometimes...just sometimes, it's nice to be taken case of. It's nice to be made to feel like a lady”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“He touches my face, his thumb smoothing over my lips. "You're my June, Tru.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“You ask what I want from you?” His eyes move to my lips, then my eyes. “I want you, Tru. I just want you. All day, every day.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“He leans back and stares down at me, and then I suddenly see it there in his eyes, unconcealed. The lust. The want. He wants me. He’s trying to seduce me. I’m so completely fucked.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“Birthday present number three,” he murmurs, brushing my hair back off my face.
“I’m still yet to get you anything.”
“I got all my twelve the moment you agreed to be mine.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“What are you thinking about?” I ask.
“You. Then, and now. How beautiful you
were back then, and how even more beautiful you are now. How I wish I’d seen you through all those years, and how I’m counting myself as one lucky bastard that I got a second chance to have you in my life … and that you’re crazy enough to be mine.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“He looks up at my approach and the second my eyes meet with his, whatever sense I had just talked myself into, packs its bags and fucks off, leaving me to the mercy of my hormones.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“Please don’t go. Just stay, talk to me, we can work this out. I know we can. I would never cheat on you – I swear to you. Just believe me, please. I love you so much. You’re the only person I’ve ever loved. And I know I’ve screwed up with the drugs, but I would never cheat on you. You’re my best friend. You’re my everything.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“Holding my face with his hands, fingers buried deep in my hair, he stares down at me in the darkness.
“It’s always been you, Tru. Always.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“I love that it’s our thing … so do you want me to put them back on so you can rip them off?”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“And I love you, my little storm.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“...I’m not going anywhere. Remember, I promised. I’m yours now, forever.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“He stares at me steadily, for a long moment before looking away, but I read his eyes clearly. He wants me tonight. And from what my eyes were saying back to him, I think I just said yes.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“I don't remember looking like this in the mirror this morning. Obviously, I still had my 'Tru looks awesome in anything' margarita goggles still on.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“Jake once said on stage that Jonny was the mighty in their storm, and now I see that Jake is my mighty storm. He’s broken and complex, and no one knows him like I do, or ever will. He needs me. He’s my storm to calm. And I’m going to spend the rest of my life doing just that.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“You're it for me. I want to be with you forever. I want you to be mine.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“Remember honey, he's a man, and with men you just have to treat them like the children they are”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“Fuck," he groans. "This is.... Tru... you feel... fuccckk.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“You’re not just any girl. You’re my girl.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“Never a right time, honey, I know. There never is when it comes to breaking someone's heart”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“Here she is, Tru who wants to pick a fight with Jake. I was wondering when she'd show up. Apparently, at 6 a.m. in a hotel restaurant.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“I hesitated. You can’t hesitate with a man like Jake.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory lag, the lag between the time your senses receive something and you are able to react. One-thirtieth of a second is the time it takes, if you are the most alert person alive, and most people are a lot slower than that. Now Cassady is right up against that 1/30th of a second barrier. He is going as fast as a human can go, but even he can't overcome it. He is a living example of how close you can come, but it can't be done. You can't go any faster than that. You can't through sheer speed overcome the lag. We are all of us doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we are in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past, and we will really never be able to control the present through ordinary means. That lag has to be overcome some other way, through some kind of total breakthrough.”
― Tom Wolfe, quote from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“Nevertheless, there was something extraordinary about it when a man so young, with so little experience in flight test, was selected to go to Muroc Field in California for the XS–1 project. Muroc was up in the high elevations of the Mojave Desert. It looked like some fossil landscape that had long since been left behind by the rest of terrestrial evolution. It was full of huge dry lake beds, the biggest being Rogers Lake. Other than sagebrush the only vegetation was Joshua trees, twisted freaks of the plant world that looked like a cross between cactus and Japanese bonsai. They had a dark petrified green color and horribly crippled branches. At dusk the Joshua trees stood out in silhouette on the fossil wasteland like some arthritic nightmare. In the summer the temperature went up to 110 degrees as a matter of course, and the dry lake beds were covered in sand, and there would be windstorms and sandstorms right out of a Foreign Legion movie. At night it would drop to near freezing, and in December it would start raining, and the dry lakes would fill up with a few inches of water, and some sort of putrid prehistoric shrimps would work their way up from out of the ooze, and sea gulls would come flying in a hundred miles or more from the ocean, over the mountains, to gobble up these squirming little throwbacks. A person had to see it to believe it: flocks of sea gulls wheeling around in the air out in the middle of the high desert in the dead of winter and grazing on antediluvian crustaceans in the primordial ooze. When”
― Tom Wolfe, quote from The Right Stuff
“Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.”
― Hugh Howey, quote from Wool Omnibus
“Albert, I don’t know how long we can keep Sam involved at all,” she said.
“You’re upset,” Albert replied.
“Yes, I’m upset. But that’s not the point. Sam is out of control. If we’re ever going to have a working system we may have to find someone else to play the role of savior.”
Albert sighed. “Astrid, we don’t know what’s out there in the night. And maybe you’re right that Sam is out of control. But me? I’m really glad it’s him out there getting ready to face whatever it is.”
Albert picked up his omnipresent notebook and left.
To a now empty, silent room, Astrid said, “Don’t die, Sam. Don’t die.”
― Michael Grant, quote from Lies
“There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.”
― Lalita Tademy, quote from Cane River
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