“Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“People don't hate each other. They hate each other's ideas.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“Peer pressure is when you decide to lob a few warheads at this week's Nazi because CNN told you to.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“Hate is not wrong when you hate what is wrong.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“It was sort of my own personal apocalypse.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“quickly pretended disappointment. We hailed a taxi and squeezed in with all our luggage. Aunt Reine”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“The feeling of being trapped, of being helpless against his strength, his lust, and what my body needed was almost overwhelming. My eyes shuttered closed at the effort of not struggling in his harsh grasp. He whispered against my face, and I could not focus enough to see him. “Do you want to ride the storm?” His breath was hot against my skin. His voice promised no gentleness, no compromise. I knew the kind of sex he was offering, and the thought of it tightened things low in my body, drew another small sound from my throat. “Yes,” I whispered, “yes.” The roll of thunder echoed down the hallway, shuddering between the stone walls. The sound seemed to vibrate out of his body and into mine as if my body were a tuning fork struck against the rim of some great metal cup. His voice growled against my skin, with the taste of thunder in it. “Good,” he said and forced me to my knees.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from A Stroke of Midnight
“Damsels? You get sliced open, burned, and dashed against rocks about a thousand times or so. Then we'll see who the damsel is.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Girl of Nightmares
“Jared had his back to the wall, which Kami thought was a reflex when he was uncomfortable. She wanted to shield him. “He was doing some—Zen jogging,” she claimed.
Jared flicked her an incredulous glance. “Yes,” he said slowly. “Zen jogging. I wasn’t wearing that many clothes because—that’s part of the process. You’re meant to commune with the elements. Normally, I wouldn’t have worn my jeans, but I put them on because I know the English are a modest people.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, quote from Unspoken
“There is no client as scary as an innocent man."
J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Lincoln Lawyer
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