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“His hand was on my throat, and he was crushing me back with his body into the cold steel beam behind me. "Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it‘s none of your business, I have lost. Many things. And no, I am not like any other player in this game and I will never be like V‘lane, and I get a hard-on a great deal more often than occasionally." He leaned fully against me and I gasped.

"Sometimes it‘s over a spoiled little girl, not a woman at all. And yes, I trashed the bookstore when I couldn‘t find you. You‘ll have to choose a new bedroom, too. And I‘m sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody‘s does, and you go on. It‘s how you go on that defines you." His hand relaxed on my throat. "And I am going to tattoo you, Ms. Lane, however and wherever I please.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.”
― Mike Royko

“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

“They both carried a million cracks beneath the skin. Even under the stark light of the fluorescents, it was hard to see which of them was more broken. But for the first time, she felt like she had to vanquish her mental illness not for herself but for someone else. Because she was broken with him, and if she fixed herself, maybe she could make him a little less broken, too.”
― Pam Godwin, Vanquish

“Separation from people hadn't cured her need to please. She longed to lift the hem of isolation, look into eyes full of acceptance, and see in them the reflection of a woman who didn't give a rat's ass.”
― Pam Godwin, Vanquish

“Love and hate are closely related expressions of the same intensity. Both require passion, and neither follows logic.”
― Pam Godwin, Vanquish

“You don't really know someone until you see them in the dark.”
― Pam Godwin, Vanquish

“I may not remember anything about her, but I would bet her smile was my favorite part of her.”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never

“Hope is a weak bitch who couldn’t give two fucks about what you want. So I rely on faith. Faith that I’ll make it through this and find my heart again.”
― Corinne Michaels, Consolation

“She needs to decide if it’s me she wants. I sure as hell won’t be the consolation prize.”
― Corinne Michaels, Consolation

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Words are home to me. Quotes, lyrics, and even single words on their own—they hold something in them that can make your heart bleed or soar. Sometimes the absence of them can hold as much meaning.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance.

“You have to let the laughter and pure joy fill you up, so the demons have nothing left to hold and you can be free.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance.

“I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.”
― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark

“I was a little morally screwed up. I found my footing though, and I took the hard road to do it. I figured out a few things.

Oh yeah, what did you figure out?

That I am nothing without God. I was right about money, it isn’t everything, and I am more capable than I or anyone else thought.

So there’s no hero for you?

I am my own hero.”
― Kate Stewart, Room 212

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
― Emile Zola

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If eyes are windows into the soul, books are rabbit holes into the imagination.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Let love destroy you. God knows life is going to anyway.”
― Seth King

“Empathy was a sword with two edges. I was blessed with the ability to care deeply for people, and cursed with the knowledge that they would nearly always choose the worst for themselves.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“The love you left behind is so much greater than the regrets your departure created. You were more than worth the trouble. I pray I was too.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“With the weight of his body, he pressed her back against the wall, and licked the soft spot below her earlobe. "Tell me how much you f***ing want me," he breathed.”
― Gail McHugh, Collide

“Here's to bottle caps,the Yankees, and 'birds', and most of all"...he paused and lowered his voice to a whisper.." and,most of all to a beautiful girl named Molly who refuses to believe the man-the man who loves her more than she'll ever know”
― Gail McHugh, Collide