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“You're my home. I will find you.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Soldiers

“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Qhuinn stopped breathing, focusing everything he had on the male who had been his best friend and his never-been lover… and the ever-after that was never going to happen.
Even after all the things that had gone on between them, and all the fuckups on his end, which were legendary, Blay still had his back.
“I love you,” Qhuinn blurted into the silence.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Reborn

“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

“Julian paced restlessly in the hospital room, his overcoat and scarf trailing behind him like a supervillian's cape as he prowled.”
― Madeleine Urban

“Okay." He let his eyes close and it was a relief; not just of relief of minutes, but of years.”
― Jane Seville, Zero at the Bone

“No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.”
― Dave Barry

“Griff groaned and covered Dante's loose mouth with his own, driving his tongue in to steal the stars from his eyes, the fire from his mind.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Not...good." Stefano pressed his lips together.
"Okay. Don't speak I'll touch you, okay?"
"You do," Stefano answered. You do touch me.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Dark Soul Vol. 2

“And mortal terror in a female was Z's favorite turn-on. He got off on it like most males favored crap from Victoria's Secret.”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

“He tasted like gingermint and chocolate kulfi and something stronger and more powerful, something like want and need, and Owen drank him in and gave him back, dying for him in the subjective three hours it took to get to Malcolm's door.”
― Amy Lane, Country Mouse

“Hatred had blossomed from the vine of contempt in his heart, flowers of dark, grim splendor.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Scorpion

“It was easier being strong when another man was strong enough to be weak.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Scorpion

“He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed underneath his skin.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Incursion

“I sit, smoking, my head against the cool comfort of the fighter plane's wheel, its wing shielding but never embracing me. I'm a cold nestling tonight.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“I've only ever really been afraid of the fear, but right now, I fear nothing.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“A gentle, warm, sweet pain spreads through my chest at those words.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“The trick to saying the word cock, is to do it like you have one in your mouth.”
― Geoffrey Knight

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“Don't you dare," Lem barked.

"What?" Anderson pulled his hand to his chest. Not quite sure of the infraction he was about to commit.

"You were going to pick that flower."

Anderson smiled and reached for it again. "It's pretty."

Lem slapped his hand away. "It's endangered. Just look, don't pick."

"That's what they told me about you," Anderson said, bumping Lem with his shoulder.”
― Brandon Shire, Heart of Timber

“NO reader has ANY obligation to an author, whether it be to leave a review or to write a "constructive" one. I put out a product. You are consumers of that product. Since when does that mean you have to kiss my ass? Hey, I like Pop-Tarts and eat them a few times a year; since when does that mean I'm obligated to support Kellogg's in any way except legally purchasing the Pop-Tarts before I eat them? I wasn't aware that purchasing and consuming a product meant I was under some sort of fucking thrall in which I'm only allowed to either praise the Pop-Tart (which to be honest isn't hard, especially the S'mores flavor) or, if I am going to criticize a flavor, offer a specific and detailed analysis as to why, phrased in as inoffensive and gentle a manner as possible so as not to upset the gentle people at Kellogg's."

[Something in the Water? (blog post; January 9, 2012)]”
― Stacia Kane

“You’ll end up with a man whose name starts with E. And he’ll rip through your life like a tornado. Then again, a tornado can handle a volcano.”
― S.E. Jakes, Long Time Gone

“love isn’t static. If it’s big enough, it changes to accommodate the good and the bad.”
― Tibby Armstrong, Outtakes

“If you were mine, I'd make you pierce it, just because,”
― S.E. Jakes, Catch a Ghost

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Are you going to rape me at any point or anything?" I just figured it was good to get things out in the open, get myself in the right headspace. He whipped his head around and looked at me like I'd just insulted his grandmother.

"The fuck? No, I'm not." He gave me the squint side-long. "Are you going to rape me?”
― Domashita Romero, El Presidio Rides North