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“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains

“Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams

“You look wonderful", Jason said.
"No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie."
"Then by all means take it off.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains

“Girl, all you have to do is say the word, and Mr. Lusty McLust a Lot here will be happy to whisper some dirty nothings in your ear.”
― Wendy Higgins, Sweet Peril

“Ayden and Blake stared each other down.
"Oh. My. God," Luna blurted from Ayden's back seat. "It's a love triangle."
We all looked at her like she'd sprouted an alien from her head. "it's just like in a book. Two guys after one girl and-"
I groaned. "That's ridiculous, Luna, this is not a love triangle."
"Says the girl in the middle of a love triangle. Luna ignored my protests and prattled on. "Not one Hexy Boy but two. I've got to call Danica. Oooo," she squealed and clapped her hands,"We could have teams. Team Ayden and Team Blake. With T-shirt and buttons and-"
"I could make a website," Lucian offered.
"No!" My voice pitched with panic. "No teams. No shirts. No-"
"I'll get you some headshots," Blake said, turning his profile towards Luna and Lucian. "I've been told the left is my best side. What do you think?"
"Aurora's right," Ayden said. "This is buts. Blake you can follow us-"
"Dude, you know no one would pick Team Ayden. You're just jealous."
"That's not true. My team would be way bigger than yours."
"Dare to dream, little man, dare to dream."
"Care to make a wager on it?"
"Absolutely."
"Fine. How about-"
"You two shut up!" I shoved myself out of the car.”
― A&E Kirk, Demons at Deadnight

“He’s the kind of man who if you gave him a gun and told him he had two choices—“shoot one of your dogs or shoot yourself in the head”—he’d put the gun to his ear and pull the trigger.��
“Hell, Jules, you’d do the same thing if someone did that to you and your goddamned cats,�� Blake said in amusement.
“No,�� Julian murmured with a shake of his head. “No, there’s a third option. People like us, we’re third-option people. We take the gun, stuff it in the person’s mouth, and eliminate the problem. Walk off into the sunset with our kitty.”
― Abigail Roux, Warrior's Cross

“I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains

“Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you”
― Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie

“All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“Beckett's probably the hardest man there is to love," Blake said. "He does life wrong for all the right reasons.”
― Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie

“Blake got up after some time, claiming he was sweating because of Kaidan, the human furnace.”
― Wendy Higgins, Sweet Peril

“We got hungry around three in the morning, and ordered a ton of pizza from an all-night pizza place. Afterward, Blake talked a guy into letting him borrow his skateboard, and he once again entertained all of us. If it had wheels, Blake could work it.
“Is he your boyfriend?�� a girl behind me asked.
I turned to the group of girls watching Blake. They were all coifed and beautiful in their bikinis, not having gone in the water. My wet hair was pulled back in a ponytail by this point and I was wrapped in a towel. “No, he’s my boyfriend’s best friend. We’re watching his place while he’s . . . out of town.��
A pang of fear jabbed me when I thought about Kai.
“What’s your name?�� asked a brunette with glossy lips.
“Anna.�� I smiled.
“Hey. I’m Jenny,�� she said. “This is Daniela and Tara.��
“Hey,�� I said to them.
“So, your boyfriend lives here?�� asked the blonde, Daniela. She had a cool accent—something European.
“Yes,�� I answered, pointing up to his apartment.
The girls all shared looks, raising their sculpted eyebrows.
“Wait,�� said Jenny. “Is he that guy in the band?��
The third girl, named Tara, gasped. “The drummer?�� When I nodded, they shared awed looks.
“Oh my gawd, don’t get mad at me for saying this,�� said Jenny, “but he’s a total piece of eye candy.�� Her friends all laughed.
“Yum drum,�� whispered Tara, and Daniela playfully shoved her.
Jenny got serious. “But don’t worry. He, like, never comes out or talks to anyone. Now we know why.�� She winked at me. “You are so adorable. Where are you from?��
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This was met with a round of awwws. “Hey, you’re a Southern girl,�� said Tara. “You should like this.��
She held out a bottle of bourbon and I felt a tug toward it. My fingers reached out.
“Maybe just one drink,�� I said.
Daniela grinned and turned up the music.
Fifteen minutes and three shots later I’d dropped my towel and was dancing with the girls and telling them how much I loved them, while they drunkenly swore to sabotage the efforts of any girl who tried to talk to my man.”
― Wendy Higgins, Sweet Peril

“I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams

“Oh my God! I'm engaged! I'm marrying Cole!"

"What?!" Livia squeezed her sister hard. "Let me see. When did this happen? Did you tell Dad? When is it going to be? How did he propose?"

The men stopped their congratulatory handshake to stare at the speed-talking ladies.

"Last night, not yet, four weeks from today, naked!" Kyle blurted in response

The girls became a moving, jumping circle of hug.

"Cole, you popped the question in your birthday suit?" Blake teased.

Cole put his face in his hands. "Did not think she would share that bit of information.”
― Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie

“Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.”
― Maurice Sendak

“As Blake leaned down to accept her hug she whispered, “Remember when you and Livia tried to hog the spotlight at my wedding? Just when you and Livia get to the good part, Cole and I are going to have porno sex right there.��
She pointed discreetly at the spot to Blake’s right, and he couldn’t help but laugh.”
― Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie

“But Blake infused hope in his music. Love was the only song he knew how to play.”
― Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie

“Listening to him play was like discovering an eagle in the wild. It was tumblingly bewitching. She could feel and hear genius she knew it.”
― Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie

“The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo.”
― William Blake

“It's an important part of knight training - sweeping maidens off their feet.”
― Katie M. John

“Lovers running each to each
Feel such timid dreams catch fire
Blazing as they touch,
Learn what love alone can teach:
Happy on a tousled bed
Praise Blake's acumen who said:
'One thing only we require
Of each other; we must see
In another's lineaments
Gratified desire';
That is our humanity;
Nothing else contents.”
― W.H. Auden

“Blake peers around Amelia's shoulder. "He looks like Sleeping Beauty."
"Don't ever say that to his face," says Wolfboy."Actually, do. If he wakes up, promise me you'll say that to his face.”
― Leanne Hall, Queen of the Night

“only the dead keep secrets."

"it is not easy. Taking a life, even when we knew it was required."

"most people want only to be cared for. If I had no softness, I'd get nowhere at all."

"a flaw of humanity. The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness."

"someone always gains, just like someone always loses."

"most women are less in love with the partners they choose than they are simply desperate for their approval, starving for their devotion. They want most often to be touched as no one else can touch them, and most of them inaccurately assume this requires romance. But the moment we realize we can feel fulfilled without carrying the burdens of belonging to another, that we can experience rapture without being someone's other half, and therefore beholden to their weaknesses, to their faults and failures and their many insufferable fractures, then we're free, aren't we? "

" enough, for once, to feel, and nothing else. "

" there was no stopping what one person could believe. "

" I noticed that if I did certain things, said things in certain way, or held her eye contact while I did them, I could make her... Soften toward me. "

" I think I've already decided what I'm going to do, and I just hope it's the right thing. But it isn't, or maybe it is. But I suppose it doesn't matter, because I've already started, and looking back won't help. "

" luck is a matter of probabilities. "

"you want to believe that your hesitation makes you good, make you feel better? It doesn't. Every single one of us is missing something. We are all too powerful, too extraordinary, and don't you see it's because we're riddled with vacancies? We are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal, that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn. "

" ask yourself where power comes from, if you can't see the source, don't trust it. "

" an assassin acting on his own internal compass. Whether he lived or died as a result of his own choice? Unimportant. He didn't raise an army didn't fight for good, didn't interfere much with the queen's other evils. It was whether or not he could live with his own decision because life was the only thing that truly matters. "

" the truest truth : mortal lifetimes were short, inconsequential. Convictions were death sentences. Money couldn't buy happiness, but nothing could buy happiness, so at least money could buy everything else. In term of finding satisfaction, all a person was capable of controlling was himself. "

" humans were mostly sensible animals. They knew the dangers of erratic behavior. It was a chronic condition, survival. My intention is as same as others. Stand taller, think smarter, be better. "

" she couldn't remember what version of her had put herself into that relationship, into that life, or somehow into this shape, which still looked and felt as it always had but wasn't anymore. "

" conservative of energy meant that there must be dozens of people in the world who didn't exist because of she did. "

" what replace feelings when there were none to be had? "

" the absence of something was never as effective as the present of something. "

"To be suspended in nothing, he said, was to lack all motivation, all desire. It was not numbness which was pleasurable in fits, but functional paralysis. Neither to want to live nor to die, but to never exist. Impossible to fight."

"apology accepted. Forgiveness, however, declined."

"there cannot be success without failure. No luck without unluck."

"no life without death?"

"Everything collapse, you will, too. You will, soon.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of parables whereby God communicates in terms that the imagination rather than the mind, faith rather than knowledge, can grasp.”
― Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom

“Orospu çocuğu kan emicilerle çıkmaya başladığından beri bana hiç bir konuda tüm gerçeği anlattığına inanmıyorum Anita'
'Politik olarak doğrusunu söylemek gerekirse,senin o orospu çocuğu kan emici dediğin vampir, ST Louis'nin Şehir Efendisi Dolp'
'O seninde efendinmi Anita?'
'Ne?'
'Şehir Efendisinin insan hizmetkarımısın?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Danse Macabre

“Anita: Sen neden yoruldun ?
Jason: Bütün kulübe seks ve büyü saçtın şimdi neden yorulduğumu mu soruyorsun ? Çok cilveliymişsin.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains

“The Blakean reading of the birth of Adam (order or really Jesus) is that He does not want to be immortalised by the death of God. For Blake it is only God (in ibn al arabi’s sense of the word god) that can truly die man is immortal thus he resists creation through (pain) and the devil understood that. Jesus for Blake is born on the cross. It’s in that moment where he utters “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?  Why are you so far away when I groan for help?�� The reading that god for a moment through Jesus lost faith in hisself and consequently the humanity through the experience of unbearable suffering and pain is not the Jesus’s moment on cross but the opposite for Blake Jesus on the cross was about his moment of immortality, that he feels betrayed by his immortality as he was promised death it’s truly the death drive that speaks in Jesus because Jesus at that moment became the son of man rather than son of God in a truly abstract yet literal sense. Jesus was promised death but rather he received immortality which is why in Quran Jesus is not resurrected on the third day but taken above among immortals to come back later. He never dies on the cross and this repetition for Jesus is vulgar. This is the true jouissance Jesus really says on the cross that He wants to suffer more to self sacrifice for his desire of death for his pleasure but the reason he says that oh lord why have you abandoned me is when he finally sees his immortality.”
― Syed Buali Gillani

“Good Morning to you," the marquis said. "Where is Caroline?"
"Damned if I know, but half the ham is missing so I imagine she's come and gone."

James whistled. "Mrs. Mickle certainly outdid herself this morning, didn't she? You should have had Caroline move in sooner."

Blake shot him an irritated glance.
"Well, you must admit that your housekeeper has never gone to such great lengths to keep YOU so well fed.”
― Julia Quinn, To Catch an Heiress

“Well, I don't care," she announced. "I just don't care that he isn't offering a reward. In fact, I'm glad I'm much happier here than I was with any of my guardians."

"I would be, too," Blake said wryly, "If Perriwick and Mrs. Mickle treated me this way."

Caroline turned to him with a wicked smile, the urge to tease him too strong to ignore. "Now, now, don't get snippy because your servants like me best."

Blake started to say something, then just laughed.”
― Julia Quinn, To Catch an Heiress

“Blake

When I remember how his spirits throve
Amid dark city streets he did not see
Because his eyes were veiled with poetry
And at his heart the Prophets wings were wove,

When I recall the squalor of his days
And then remember what rare fire was spent
When amid quenchless words he died, I praise
Whatever Gods we’re his, in wonderment”
― Mervyn Peake, Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings