“Can you stand a little closer?"
"Hmm?"
"You smell good. I like to smell you.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from The Return of Rafe MacKade
“Angling his head, Rafe put a hand on Regan’s shoulder. “Dibs,” he said in a mild warning. “Excuse me?” Regan stepped back and gaped. “I beg your pardon, but did you just say ‘Dibs’?” “Yeah.” Rafe bit off candy, offered her the rest of the bar. When she smacked his hand away, he only shrugged and ate it himself. “Of all the ridiculous, outrageous— You’re a grown man, and you’re standing there eating candy and saying ‘Dibs’ as if I were the last ice-cream bar in the freezer.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from The Return of Rafe MacKade
“Of all the ridiculous, outrageous— You’re a grown man, and you’re standing there eating candy and saying ‘Dibs’ as if I were the last ice-cream bar in the freezer.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from The Return of Rafe MacKade
“borrowed Shane’s four-wheel to make the hill. Parked it and came to the door in time to see your eyes roll back in your head.” He walked back to her, stripped off his coat and tucked it over her legs. “By the way, how’d you get in?” “I—” She stared at him, swallowed. “I opened the door.” “It was locked.” “No, it wasn’t.” Lifting a brow, he jingled the keys in his pocket. “That’s interesting.” “You’re not lying,” she said after a moment. “Not this time. Why don’t you tell me what you heard?” “Footsteps. But there was no one there.” To warm them, she tucked her hands”
― Nora Roberts, quote from The Return of Rafe MacKade
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“الفرد في كل نشاط تلقائي يعانق العالم. فلا تظل نفسه الفردية لم تُقضَ فحسب, بل هي تصبح اكثر قوة واشد صلابة. فالنفس تكون قوية بقدر ما تكون نشطة. لا يوجد اية قوة اصيلة في التملك كتملك, لا في الملكية المادية ولا في الصفات الذهنية مثل الانفعالات او الافكار. كما انه لا يوجد ايضا قوة في استخدام واستغلال الموضوعات, ان ما نستخدمه ليس ملكنا بكل بساطة لاننا نستخدمه. ان ما هو ملكنا هو فقط الذي نرتبط به بنشاطنا الخلاق سواء كان هذا شخصا او موضوعا غير حي. ان تلك الصفات الناجمة عن نشاطنا التلقائي هي وحدها التي تعطي قوة للنفس ومن ثم تكوّن اساس التكامل. والعجز عن السلوك تلقائيا والتعبير عما يشعر به المرء ويفكر فيه بأصالة والضرورة الناجمة لتقديم نفس زائفة للآخرين وللانسان هي كلها جذر الشعور بالدونية والضعف. وسواء كنا ندري هذا ام لا, فلا شيء يدعونا الى الخجل اكثر من الا نكون انفسنا, ولا يوجد شيء يمكن ان يعطينا فخارا وسعادة اكثر من التفكير والشعور والقول بما هو نحن.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“Baby, Heaven doesn't want me yet, and Fuck if Hell can handle me, so you're kinda stuck with me.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.”
― Lew Wallace, quote from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.”
― Scarlett Thomas, quote from The End of Mr. Y
“No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, quote from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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