“I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Wicked Gentlemen
“Tell me." Edward had to raise his voice a little. "Do you live by the principle that what people don't know can't hurt them?"
"No," Harper replied. "What people don't know can't hurt me.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Wicked Gentlemen
“It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Wicked Gentlemen
“No." Belimai reached out and touched Harper's shoulder. "I only said it to hurt you. I wanted to make you feel as bad as I did." Belimai smiled. "It's my own little way of sharing what I have with you. Aren't you lucky?”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Wicked Gentlemen
“Years ago when he had been at college, Edward had shown him how to change sheets from under a sleeping man. Harper had spent a few weeks after that stealing the sheets from under his fellow seminary students.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Wicked Gentlemen
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“I believe anyone could light a cigarette from the sparks that fly from your eyes!”
― Enid Blyton, quote from Five on a Treasure Island
“It’s about time,” he says, grinning. “I was almost going to give up on you.” He winks.
I crumple onto the rock, right beside him. For the first time, since the other day, we are touching. My shoulder is brushing up against his and there is an electric current running through the air that seems to be hogging all the attention.
Thankfully, Teague speaks before I faint. “Water?” he asks, offering up his canteen.
“Sure, thanks,” I say, taking a swig and catching my breath.
“So.” His eyes widen. “You’re in pretty good shape.”
“Apparently not,” I say sarcastically. “Not good enough.”
“No, you are.” He smiles.
Dimples. Major dimples.
“It’s true. Really.” He nods as he speaks. “I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who can keep up with me like that.”
“Yeah, well.” I smile back, but instead of taking the compliment like my mom always says I really need to learn to do, I brush it off with a lame attempt at humor.
“It was a matter of survival,” I say. “I just didn’t want to get abandoned in the woods.”
Teague stands and thoughtfully extends his hand to pull me up. His hand is warm and muscular, and we both hold on a second longer than we have to.
“Thanks,” I say, letting go first.
“Hey, you know I would never leave you out here by yourself,” he says. “I mean, just know that, okay?”
“Oh, I was just joking,” I tell him.
“Yeah, I know, but still--” He gets kind of serious. “These woods, they’re fun but they can be dangerous. It’s kind of an unwritten rule to either tell someone where you’re going, or make sure when you do go out, you go with someone else.”
“Okay.” I shrug, touched by his concern for my personal welfare.
“Emily,” he says. “Be careful, okay? This isn’t California.”
“O-kaaaay,” I say, smiling. “I promise.”
“Good,” says Teague.”
― Megan Shull, quote from Amazing Grace
“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from Being Peace
“Well,' said Hodgkins, 'perhaps he really is interested in everything, only he doesn't overdo it. For ourselves there is always one single interest. You want to become. I want to do. My nephew wants to have. But the Joxter just lives.'
'Simply lives,' I said. 'Anybody can do that.'
'Mphm,' Hodgkins said.”
― Tove Jansson, quote from Moominpappa's Memoirs
“I answer that, As Augustine says (De Moribus Eccl. vi), "the soul needs to follow something in order to give birth to virtue: this something is God: if we follow Him we shall live aright.”
― Thomas Aquinas, quote from Summa Theologica, 5 Vols
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