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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
― Isadora Duncan, Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“And then I tasted nothing but his sweet lips, pressed firmly to mine, as I kissed him like it was my job.”
― Alice Clayton, The Redhead Revealed

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“But I’d rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it’s too late.”
― Cherrie Lynn, Rock Me

“-Do you love this girl ?
-I'm fucking crazy about her.
-Fucking crazy I've gathered. But I asked if you love her. I'm talking true, enduring, unconditional, hold-her-hair-while-she's-pucking-from-the-morning-sickness love.”
― Cherrie Lynn, Rock Me

“He pushed me back up against the door, slamming me against the doorbell. I heard it ring out.
"Coming!" I heard Holly say as she clicked across the floor to the front door.
"Not quite, but she’s close." He chuckled, removing his hand and leaving me breathless and rosy cheeked.”
― Alice Clayton, The Unidentified Redhead

“I don’t know why you’re laughing, Miss Thing,” Nick said, turning his gaze to me. “You still fantasize over Joe McIntyre like you are thirteen years old!”
“Oh, I own my obsession. If Joey Joe were here right now, I’d break him. I have no shame.”
― Alice Clayton, The Unidentified Redhead

“The guy looks young enough to be your kid, Grace.
Yes, but only if I’d really slutted it up in junior high…”
― Alice Clayton, The Unidentified Redhead

“He was everything I’d ever wanted, and everything I hadn’t even known I needed.”
― Alice Clayton, The Redhead Revealed

“This is the heart I need. And if I have this - and a little schmaltz - I dont need anything else in the world”
― Alice Clayton

“What if I don’t choose you, Kellan? What will you do?”
He looked away, a tear rolling down his cheek. “I’ll leave, Kiera. I’ll leave, and you and Denny can have your happily ever after.” He looked back at me. “You wouldn’t even need to tell him about me. Eventually, the two of you…” his voice broke and another tear fell on his cheek, “the two of you would get married, and have children, and have a great life.”
I fought back a sob. “And you? What happens to you in that scenario?”
“I…get by. And I miss you, every day,” he whispered.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“But, if for some reason we're not closer, if something has gotten between us, please, I'm begging you…don't give up on me. Stay. Stay with me. Work it out with me. Just don't leave me…please.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“Dude, he's Australian...not a pirate.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
― Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Look, I don't know what to do yet. I just knew that's what you wanted," he says eyeing her mussed appearance.

"That's not what I wanted."

"If it wasn't, you wouldn't have let me do it," he told her simply.

"I wanted answers."

"And I don't have any.”
― K.A. Linde, Avoiding Commitment

“Wake me up, I've been dreaming, Because I haven't heard from you in days. Hazy now, this fog just follows me around, And it's only you that burns it away. - Cartel "The Perfect Mistake”
― Cartel

“She had worked a year to get him out of her life as much as she possibly could. He always had a place in her heart since she had loved him so obsessively for such a long time, but she had been able to extract herself from him to an extent.”
― K.A. Linde, Avoiding Commitment

“She shook her head. She had been in that exact position on a number of occasions with Clark. She knew how easy it could be to just escape with Jack when she couldn't be around Clark. As wrong as she knew it was, she hadn't been able to stop herself. She had always thought that desperation came from wanting Jack, but maybe things were different with him. Perhaps he had always done it because he enjoyed the cloak and dagger effect of hiding and running away from his life with her.”
― K.A. Linde

“Then why didn't you tell her. She calls me telling me she loves me telling me that I'm everything to her. She says that you've opened her eyes to who I really am, but does she know who I really am Lexi? Does anyone other than you know who I am?”
― K.A. Linde

“They left a path of pain for whoever ventured near, and Jack and Lexi weren't immune to the catastrophes they created. There was a reason the sin of lust was whirled around for eternity in Dante's Inferno. No matter where they went, they couldn't help but ceaselessly be in a whirlwind always crossing that fine line between love and lust.”
― K.A. Linde