That woman doesn’t have the sense God gave a retarded flea.
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many.” ” I never thought about it quite that way.” Well, you’re a man. ” She gave his knee a friendly pat.
love wasn’t the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it’s twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.
Not everyone who loves music can play the tune.Estelle
I guess money can’t buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
Don’t turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.
Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now….
The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover’s tears.
A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
He wanted to be a poet,’ someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. ‘Said he’d only lacked the words to be one.
it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last.” -adrianne”It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold.” -philip
I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word “impinge”- barely misses a beat while indulging in a brief girl-on-girl fantasy. You’re a man of layers, Ford.”Me and Shrek, we’re onions.
He won’t be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair…He’ll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.
Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?
Are you telling me you’re cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?
The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some believed, as legends brought comfort.
A relationship isn’t something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It’s something that’ll always be just a little flawed.
Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.
I want you. I want you under me and over me and around me. And you want.
If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you the ‘let’s go back to my place’ signals. In that case—”“Don’t go there, Bob. Let’s just not go there.
Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.
Brother, when beauty falls into your hand, you hold on to it while you can. You could be dead tomorrow.Well, that’s… inspiring.
…If I don’t have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That’s my compulsion.
She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn’t bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. So she read instead, and admired those who could.
You walked in, and the air changed. It gives you an advantage and you’re enough of a challenge. I’m not trying to be a challenge. It’s one of the things that makes you one.
He preferred the term “study” to “office,” as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certainly work, but it wasn’t a requirement.
My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?
Courage comes in different forms. There’s strength–that’s the muscle. But love’s the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she’d known a way.
You’re going to need this,” she said, and pulled out a condom.”At some point, we’re also going to need a defibrillator and a fire extinguisher.””Promises, promises.
Well, I’d have more zing with George Clooney and Harrison Ford in a threesome, but neither of us are going to get that wish.
Happily ever after?” “If justice doesn’t triumph and love doesn’t make the circle in entertainment fiction, what’s the point? Real life sucks too often.
Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?
Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it’s not – it’s a different kind of truth – it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn’t it?
Take a few minutes.””No. He’s already had more of my time than he was entitled to.”Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.
Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.
All he’d learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.
Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.
Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.
Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
I’m going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.
A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies.
Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don’t ignore the present when you take them out to play.
Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Love spells are nothing but wives’ tales. You can’t play magic inside the heart, for it’s more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.
It’s Salvation. When Jen told me I had a vision. A vision Rena. I think I saw the blessed mother smiling and she was hold ing a loofa.[In regards to moving out of dorms and having three bathrooms between 4 roomates]
Anyone who said money didn’t matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.
Niall: We’re tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.
To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.
I can’t believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.
Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.
He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.
Compromise isn’t so painful if you’re the one setting the terms.
Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?
When we destroy it.” She spoke clearly now, steadily now. “If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it”.
But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out
When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don’t choke on it.
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.
She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?
Don’t you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?””Kiss a cow farm boy
I wouldn’t waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you’ll have at the end of your life is wasted time.
[Everyone needs] a woman who’ll listen, take your side, tell the truth – or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who’ll love you no matter how much you screw up.
There was nothing like a Saturday – unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.
You love tests?””Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What’s not to love?
Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn’t recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.
Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.
…she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer’s wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.
Is your dog in a coma?” Quinn asked when the dog didn’t move a muscle.”No. Lump leads an active and demanding internal life that requires long periods of rest.
Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It’s called the sun. Let’s go get us a little.
I don’t need you by my side. But I want you there. Very much want you there. That, I think, saysmore. Means more.”He took the hand she held out to him. “We’ll go down. James should be here soon
There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
Planting a flower’s like opening a book, because either way you’re starting something. And your garden’s your library.
A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight’s just too heavy on the one side, and the other can’t lift to it.
And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She’d been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.
If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do.(Malcolm Kavanaugh)
Some people get lifetimes, some get moments. I’ve got to tell myself it’s what you do with what you get that counts.
Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.
Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don’t catch a cold.
I would hope that my writing’s cleaner than it was when I started.