Mary Lydon Simonsen · 382 pages
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“Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success.”
“Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.”
“Does anyone truly understand females? ...Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic.”
“I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.”
“There is nothing sweeter than finding the right person to love and cherish and to share your hopes and dreams with.”
“Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person.”
“Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.”
“I did not understand how quickly one could fall in love, and I regarded almost as an affliction that one would eventually recover from. However, I now recognize that it is a force that reaches into every fiber of your body, and that it is something not to be resisted, but embraced.”
“Women fancy admiration means more than it does.”
“...Life does have its twists and turns, and that certainly is true. However, one can predict the future with some degree of accuracy based on one's own knowledge of past events. And rare events do occur , but it is their lack of repetition that makes them rare.
I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands
I find that memories, especially from one's childhood, very often do not live up to the realities
Does anyone truly understand females? the more I am in their company the less i know. Their behavior is the opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic.
Oh, I can see you are enjoying yourself. You have my heart, and now you will toy with it
She did believe that two souls could come together, so that the one would know if something had happened to the other despite distance or war.
The only way to get through life's rough spots is to laugh whenever possible”
“"..one can predict the future with some degree of accuracy based on one's own knowledge of past events. And rare events do occur, but it is their lack of repetition that makes them rare.”
“"..love is as complex an emotion as exists. There are many reasons why love does not prosper.
.. the waters are perilous, and you would do well to know that, because unlike your novels, not every story has a happy ending.”
“It is so hard trying to say what you mean.”
“Asperger was speaking out with the “force of his whole personality” for the sake of children all over Europe who had not yet been murdered by a monstrous idea of human perfectibility—an idea that his supervisors, who were fervent Nazis, had imported from America. V”
“The next time you try to make yourself come, I’m going to fucking tie you to the bed and tease you until you pass out, but I won’t let you come for goddamn hours. I’ll bring your body to the edge, primed and ready to fall over the ledge, but never let you fall. Over and fucking over. Your screams of pleasure never hitting the peak that you pray I’ll give. I’m in charge of your pussy, Emersyn. Don’t fucking forget that your sweetness will only be given by me. My fucking fingers. My mouth. And MY cock.”
“If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime. Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”
“I agree. I certainly like your mouth”
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