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“Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?”

Book:Dexter by Design

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Dexter by Design

Dexter by Design is a captivating narrative that delves into the life of a fashion designer, showcasing the challenges and triumphs within the competitive and ever-evolving world of fashion. more

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Jeff Lindsay

Jeff Lindsay, born on July 14, 1952, is a renowned playwright known for his profound character development and unique narrative style. His works have won numerous awards and have had a significant impact on the contemporary theater. more

“The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure of acceptance that he was never going to get over. He just wanted to live, honestly and out front, with no apology. Like everyone else. To love who he loved, be who he was… but society had a different standard, and as he always feared, his parents were a part of that.”

Different Wanted Mother Views Fronts Acceptance Standards Honestly Apology Get Over Let Down

Author:J.R. Ward

“In his fantasy, he kissed his best friend again, pulled back, and… “I love you,” he said into the spray of the shower. “I… love you.” As he closed his eyes against the pain, it was hard to know how much of what ran down his cheeks was water, and how much was something else.”

Knows Said Hard Eye Pain Water Fantasy Know How Love You Ran His Eyes Cheeks Showers Spray Friends Again

Book:Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“Love’em or hate’em, by blood or by heart, family was a kind of oxygen. Necessary for the living.”

Heart Kind Hate Blood Ems Oxygen

Book:Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“I lived for the night, because I could go over to your house. It was the only thing that kept me going. You were the only thing, actually. It was… you.”

Night House

Book:Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“And God help them both, if it hadn’t been for Saxton, Qhuinn would have dropped the l-word right then and there, even though the timing was stupid.”

Ifs Helping Stupid Timing God Help

Book:Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.”

Want Love Giving Mind Long Facts Light Bits Acceptance Longing Unconscious Apathy Dressings Blanket Neutrality Wrapping

Author:Franz Kafka

“The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph”

Struggle Greater Self Realization Triumph Glorious Triumphant Life Struggle Never Give Up On Something My Struggle I Will Not Give Up Acumen

Book:Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action

Source: Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action

“There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.”

Memories Evening Glamour Faded Ephemeral Intoxication Indescribable Gloss Kindliness

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.”

I Can Seems Would Be Used Judging Lovers Rose Chosen

Book:The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

“It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.”

World Years Water Decision Emotion Late Too Late Unstable

Book:The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

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