“It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear. ”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“—leave me," Japhrimel snarled. "You will not leave me to wander the earth alone—breathe, damn you, breathe!”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“Lucas went even paler. “Then you’re on the track to suicide,” he whispered. “Take my advice, Valentine. Run. Run as fast as you can, for as long as you can. Steal whatever bit of life you can. You’re already dead.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“I have set you as a seal upon my heart; I will not return to Hell.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from The Abortion
“Yes, thought the Count, the world does spin. In fact, it spins on its axis even as it revolves around the sun. And the galaxy turns as well, a wheel within a greater wheel, producing a chime of an entirely different nature than that of a tiny hammer in a clock. And when that celestial chime sounds, perhaps a mirror will suddenly serve its truer purpose - revealing to a man not who he imagines himself to be, but who he has become.”
― Amor Towles, quote from A Gentleman in Moscow
“Washington must have seen that Hamilton, for all his brains and daring, sometimes lacked judgment and had to be supervised carefully.”
― Ron Chernow, quote from Alexander Hamilton
“The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes.
What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Born in Death
“The sky was full - of blue and sun. The ocean reflected it and was flat and glossy like a fancy ballroom floor. To Martha, this was the most beautiful sight, a miracle. The ocean made her feel insignificant and slightly afraid, but in an exhilarating way. Her inclination was not to walk or dance across the water's surface. Nor to swim through it. She wanted to *be* the ocean”
― Kevin Henkes, quote from Olive's Ocean
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