“She wanted to tell him she'd never pick any of those other three billion guys, because he was all she wanted. He was her freak, and she'd love him forever.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“Lucifer will be furious with you for failing, but it's not like he can do anything about it. Women don't always do what you want, even if you're Lord of the Underworld.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“They stood together, arms wrapped tight, listening to the wind through the pines while snow fell softly all around. This was one of those moments in life she knew she’d never forget.
He moved his head so that his lips were close to her ear. “Run, Sasha. If you can do it, run like hell and don’t look back.”
Her breath came in short little gasps. “I don’t want to run.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“You're a light in the darkness, something to give people hope.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“Maybe he wasn't the boy next door, maybe he wasn't even a real boy, but holy smokes, did he know how to kiss.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“His hand around hers was strong and warm, and in spite of her confusion and hesitation, she never wanted to let go.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“Phoenix sank to the desk chair and stared at her computer screen. “I don’t know. I’ve lived like this for so long, it’s who I am. Everything seems so stupid. Like, look at this girl,writing to Sasha. She’s all”—he spoke in a falsetto voice—“‘OMG!’ and ‘LOL!’ and ‘WTF?’ and ‘Girl, you should totes go out with Tyler in Telluride!’” He looked up at her.“You’re seventeen years old, and this is how seventeenyear-olds talk to each other. I’m a thousand years old, and this stuff is like alien-speak to me. If I found another Anabo,she’d be writing OMG and I’d be thinking, You’re f’ing
kidding me.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“Come on, you guys, let's have some sugar and get along, yeah?”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“He'd waited a thousand years for her, and she would know him for less than two weeks.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“She tried not to slip her arms beneath his trench coat, or spread her palms across his broad, muscular back, or inhale the delicious scent of him, or rest her cheek against his hard, warm chest. She tried. And failed.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“After that, he couldn't be sure how it happened, but she wasn't crying anymore and he wasn't thinking. At all. His hands were underneath her sweater, touching every inch of her warm, smooth skin; they were kissing like two condemned people suddenly given a reprieve; and his feeling of calm morphed into happiness so intense, he'd swear his blood was singing.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“Jax gave him a look, and he nodded, silently agreeing he wouldn't do anything stupid. Like kiss her. Or go to her house to watch Star Trek outtakes.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“Was he serious? Why would she be meant for a guy from Hell? If there was such a thing as destiny, she was supposed to find a quiet, smart guy, one who wasn't over six feet tall, with midnight hair and a face she couldn't stop staring at. He'd be Russian Orthodox. Or Episcopalian. He might even be Jewish. But he wouldn't be from Hell.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“It made him crazy, looking down into her beautiful eyes, at her creamy soft skin, knowing he couldn't touch her.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“She never strayed far from him though, and if she looked around and didn't see him right away, he saw a look of panic in her blue eyes.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“In her red dress and black boots, she stood straight and tall, blue eyes flashing with righteous fury, breasts rising and falling rapidly. Se had never looked more beautiful.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“He pressed her closer to his body for an instant, then slowly set her on her feet and stepped back, allowing her to get a look at him.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“How to Win Friends and Influence People' Now that's just fascinating, but maybe you should read the Sons of Hell edition, 'How Not to Scare the Shit out of People and Alienate Everyone You Meet”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“After Thursday, Lucifer will change you back to how you were before and I’ll be gone, so you’ll forget about me.” Her eyes welled with tears again. “Oh, God, please don’t cry. What did I say? Why aren’t you glad about that? It’s what you want. You said so over and over. “Jax, you’re such a…such a…guy.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“It's the worst of your sins, hating basketball when you're so damn good at it.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“Before they were done, he'd bought her tons of new clothes, underwear, perfume-because a saleslady had accosted them and he decided she definitely needed to smell like what was on that little white card-a new sketchbook, a watercolor of the Golden Gate Bridge he bought from a woman on the street, and a top-of-the-line MacBook with a pink carry case.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“I get it. And I guess you'd know, Mr. Gets It in the Dark with Strangers”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Daughter of the Forest
“we all make vows, Jimmy. And there is something very beautiful and touching and noble about wanting good impulses to be permanent and true forever," she said. "Most of us stand up and vow to love, honor and cherish someone. And we truly mean it, at the time. But two or twelve or twenty years down the road, the lawyers are negotiating the property settlement."
"You and George didn't go back on your promises."
She laughed. "Lemme tell ya something, sweetface. I have been married at least four times, to four different men." She watched him chew that over for a moment before continuing, "They've all been named George Edwards but, believe me, the man who is waiting for me down the hall is a whole lot different animal from the boy I married, back before there was dirt. Oh, there are continuities. He has always been fun and he has never been able to budget his time properly and - well, the rest is none of your business."
"But people change," he said quietly.
"Precisely. People change. Cultures change. Empires rise and fall. Shit. Geology changes! Every ten years or so, George and I have faced the fact that we have changed and we've had to decide if it makes sense to create a new marriage between these two new people." She flopped back against her chair. "Which is why vows are such a tricky business. Because nothing stays the same forever. Okay. Okay! I'm figuring something out now." She sat up straight, eyes focused somewhere outside the room, and Jimmy realized that even Anne didn't have all the answers and that was either the most comforting thing he'd learned in a long time or the most discouraging. "Maybe because so few of us would be able to give up something so fundamental for something so abstract, we protect ourselves from the nobility of a priest's vows by jeering at him when he can't live up to them, always and forever." She shivered and slumped suddenly, "But, Jimmy! What unnatural words. Always and forever! Those aren't human words, Jim. Not even stones are always and forever.”
― Mary Doria Russell, quote from The Sparrow
“Steve mellon had told him that love was for poor suckers, and Richard had written on his steamed-up shaving mirror that morning, 'I must be penniless.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Kane and Abel
“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.”
― James Frey, quote from A Million Little Pieces
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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