All Quotes By Tag: Contemporary

“Poetry is not an art, it’s a symptom.”

“They died together; they’ll always be remembered together. It’s decided, once and for all. He was hers.”

“Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?”

“And not after, when we’re clinging to each other like the world just fell apart and is slowly clicking back together, piece by piece, breath by breath . . . heartbeat by beautiful heartbeat.”

“What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn’t I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body, Nic, because I sure as hell wasn’t going to sign over either of my planes!”

“Listen up, Nic,” she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. “If you die on me out here, so help me I’ll hold seances and pester you. I won’t give you a moment’s peace in the hereafter,” she threatened in a fierce whisper. Gabrielle O’Hara, River of Dreams”

“Looks to me like Felicity didn’t enjoy being mauled,” Daniel pointed out reasonably. When what he reasonably wanted to do, was shove Stuart’s head so far up his ass the next time he gargled he’d give himself a colonic. -Felicity Stripped Bare”

“The house was the color of baby vomit.”

“There wasn’t a shed of doubt in her mind that he’d fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some.But was a brief, hot affair worth losing his friendship?”

“-No deberías beber tanto, imagina la decepción de tu amiguita si luego… ya sabes…-Tranquila, soy perfectamente capaz de cumplir.-No me lo jures.-¿Qué?-Que es fantástico, Lucas. Te felicito por ser tan eficiente.-Bebe-me indicó, más como una orden que como una sugerencia. Cambió su vaso vacío por uno lleno y se lo volvió a tragar de golpe-. Te veo tensa.-No soy yo el que se está bebiendo hasta el agua de los floreros.”

“What was the point? What is the point in love, and promises of it, when it can just jump from one person to another like that?”

“He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.”

“I have seen clouds part for the sun. I have seen rainbows. I have seen flowers in the morning, covered in dew, and I have seen sunsets so brilliant with fire they made me want to weep. And I have seen Dan smile at me, his lips still wet from my kiss, and if I had to choose which sight moved me the most I would say it was that one.”

“I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleeding.”

“The only love affair I needed to invest in right now was one with myself. Spend some time with me. Figuring out myself and why I picked the relationships I did. I was holding out my heart to me. Because I’d realised I was the only person who could give me a happily-ever-after.”