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“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“It was the sweetest torture, the most delightful torment, to let the man that had ruined me for joy bring it back into my body for one brief instant.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I would die a thousand deaths to save her.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“But you don’t always get what you want. Sometimes you get exactly what you need.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“It was like we had found a pocket of quiet, where all the ghosts in our mind had gone to sleep, and we were the only two people awake.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“Kissing Jack was like kissing a slumbering lion. He barely moved, but I could sense the raw power behind his restraint.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“Daddy?” said Lily. Her face was all lit up as she spoke into the phone. “I’m in the safe place now.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“Not a very regal send-off for a prince.” I laughed as the lions retreated into the bush again.
“That was me and Goma when I was little,” said Jack, starting the car. “I was always chasing something, and she was always pulling me back.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“It said I was equal parts earth and stars, equal parts animal and soul. I was hope. I was calamity. I was love. I was prejudice. I was my sister. I was his daughter. I was Juma. I was Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“Pull a thread here and a life unravels there.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“You snorted. And you call a dick a schlong.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“I was pretty sure it was the response he drew from most women—the chance gaze, followed by a pause; the appreciation of something magnificent, no matter how fleeting. I would have to be six feet under not to react to him. It wasn’t just about the way he looked. He had something more. Solidity. Substance. The kind of thing the moon does to the tides, making the waves rise to attention. Jack could give you goosebumps simply by circling past you. I shuddered to think what it would be like if he deliberately decided to slay you.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“I pulled back, my eyes still closed, knowing that I had just stolen an epic moment from life.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“It wasn’t just a kiss. It was a lesson—a fierce, burning imprint, so that my lips would always know the difference between being wanted and being craved.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“This is what it looks like when you wander somewhere between the sand and stardust, and meet a piece of yourself in someone else.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“Kiss me hard, then let me go,”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“My greatest loss had led to my greatest love. Hearts were broken, and hearts were healed. Lives were lost, and lives were saved.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“You ever wonder what we’d find if we could pick up the threads back to the point where things unravel, where paths cross, and lives pivot, and people come together?”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“Some circles never close, some wounds never heal. Love is like that. It leaves you forever open, forever vulnerable.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“Taleenoi olngisoilechashur.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“Sometimes you come across a rainbow story—one that spans your heart. You might not be able to grasp it, but you can never be sorry for the color and magic it brought.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.”
― Alessandra Torre, The Girl in 6E

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Your eyes betray you. Your body even responds to mine no matter that you’re angry. You want me.”
― Setta Jay, Mercenary Princess

“You burn for me. I’ve thought of nothing but how hot you’d run if I took my time.”
― Setta Jay, Mercenary Princess

“A part of her found it dangerously tempting to show him just how filthy she wanted to be with him.”
― Setta Jay, Mercenary Princess